Quotes about wind
wind jelly
Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind. P. G. Wodehouse
window trouble enough
Don't come to me with your troubles. I have to work for my money and you are young enough to work too. If you can't make enough money to live on you can jump out of the window or drown yourself. Maria Callas
wind able marathon
If you change your lifestyle, remember it's not a wind sprint, but it's a marathon you're embarked on, and you'll be able to stay there. Mehmet Oz
wind differences shining
Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready. Chris Gardner
wind water stupidity
Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water. Gilbert Highet
wind weather light
Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things. Hayao Miyazaki
wind written corporate
History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders. Neal Shusterman
wind this-life aim
To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind. Milarepa
wind understanding
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind. Jonathan Swift
wind fire long
...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind.... That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going. Kevin Brockmeier
wind sticks tough
You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing. Joe Louis
wind profound spirit
Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound. Jimmy Carter
wind sick alcohol
He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone. James Taylor
wind sky breathing
I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth. Emily Bronte
wind trying factors
You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can wind up focusing on misleading factors. Emily Giffin
wind cedars drawers
You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor. Emily Dickinson
wind sea water
You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!
wind desire tides
From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide. Ella Maillart
wind trying way
We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it. Holly Black
wind house vision
Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
wind play ships
And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.
wind clouds littles
See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!
wind law civilization
It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The winds, the water, electricity, all aliens that in their wild form were dangerous, are now controlled by human will, and are made useful servants. Henry Ward Beecher
window mark spots
Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.
window attics cracked
Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open. Henry James
wind sun necks
As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck. John Knowles
wind tears skins
He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin. Khalil Gibran
wind silence littles
Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return... Forget not that I shall come back to you... A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.
wind littles bears
A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.
wind clothes body
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may find in them a harness and a chain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment.
wind house bereavement
You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind....
wind machines four
Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid! Kerry Washington
wind trying
The one who tries to get something for nothing generally winds up getting nothing for something. Napoleon Hill