Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard E. Byrd

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Richard Dreyfuss

Tabouli is the best salad, but still, you don't win friends with salad

Thucydides

The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

Thucydides

The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.

Thomas Nashe

From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us!

Thomas More

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

Tim Yeo

Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape.

Samantha Shannon

Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.

Rumi

Passion is present when a man can distinguish between the wine and the container. Two men see a loaf of bread. One hasn't eaten anything for ten days. The other has eaten five times a day, every day. He sees the shape of the loaf. The other man with his urgent need sees inside into the taste, and into the nourishment the bread could give. Be that hungry, to see within all beings the Friend.

Rumi

Learn to recognize the false dawn from the true; distinguish the color of the wine from the color of the cup. Then it may be that patience and time may produce, out of the spectrum-viewing sight, true vision, and you will behold colors other than these mortal hues, you will see pearls instead of stones. Pearls, did I say? Nay more, you will become a sea, you will become a sun traveling the sky.

Rumi

You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.

Rumi

You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.

Rumi

The wine of this fleeting world caused your head to ache.

Rumi

You cannot learn about Love, LOVE appears on the wings of grace.

Rumi

I drank that Wine of which the Soul is its vessel. Its ecstasy has stolen my intellect away. A Light came and kindled a Flame in the depth of my Soul. A Light so radiant that the sun orbits around it like a butterfly.

Rumi

We gather at night to celebrate being human. Sometimes we call out low to the tambourine. Fish drink the sea, but the sea does not get smaller! We eat the clouds and evening light. We are slaves tasting the royal wine.

Rumi

I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey… Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul… Love says, “You are right, but don’t claim these changes. Remember, I am wind. You are an ember I ignite.

Rumi

If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk. But if he has hidden anger and arrogance, those appear.

Rumi

Wings of Love long only to fly away from all directions.

Rumi

Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue.

Rumi

Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door. She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side. Seeing and holding the lockets of her hair My face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands.

Tom Petty

And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It's hard to find a friend. It's hard to find a friend.

Tom Robbins

The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.

Tom Robbins

A spirit cannot soar with only one wing.

Tom Robbins

I'll bet I'm as old as you are." "I'm older than Sanskrit." "Well, I was waitress at the Last Supper." "I'm so old I remember when McDonald's had only sold a hundred burgers." "You win.

Tom Lehman

I think its easy to enjoy anywhere that you play where you feel like you got a chance to win a lot.

Tom Kristensen

Le Mans takes the best out of everyone. Winning is important but it's not everything. It's such a big and great event in motorsport. You do more kilometres in that one race than Formula One do in a season, and probably a higher average speed. We average about 220km/h including pit stops and cover nearly 5000km.

Tom Kristensen

Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.

Tom Landry

...even after you've just won the Super Bowl -- especially after you've just won the Super Bowl -- there's always next year. If Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing, then the only thing is nothing -- emptiness, the nightmare of life without ultimate meaning.

Tom Krause

How a person wins and loses is much more important than how much a person wins and loses.

Tom Araya

A good wine has many qualities I think. If drunk moderately, it is healthy and good for your heart.

Todd Helton

The reason we are at the ballpark is to win that day's game, and we don't need to be concerned with anything else during the time we are in uniform. It makes things a lot simpler, a lot easier.

Todd Gitlin

To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.