The Wind Quotes

No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference.

When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.

It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.

An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.

Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.

Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.

Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.

The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion.

Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.

We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.

You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.

When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.

If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind’s knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I’ve placed the eyeless head of all my desires.

Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.

If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.

Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.

Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.

The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same

We must teach our children not to spend their money a dollar at a time. If you spend your dollar at a time, you'll wind up with trinkets instead of treasures.

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

Let's be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let's make of our lips a censer of the virtues.

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.

The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Wind is part of the British Open. It is an examination and it took me a long time to pass the examination. Eighty per cent of the fellows out there have not passed the test.

I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.

We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God’s truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.

We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.

Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance

The person who strays away from the source is unroofed and is like dust blown about by the wind.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything.

The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper.

Well, you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind. You don't pull on the mask of old Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with Jim.

When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.