Quotes about wind
window-to-the-soul soul window
It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
window habit break
You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs. Mark Twain
wind soul body
The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt. Leonardo da Vinci
wind voice differences
Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the sounds and rumblings caused by the stomach being full of superfluous wind. This he said, not without reason, for, as he held, it did not in the least matter from what part of them the voice emanated, whether from the lower parts or the mouth, since the one and the other were of equal worth and importance.
wind knowing soul
How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way Patrick Rothfuss
wind sheep soldier
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. Laurence J. Peter
wind-blowing smell doors
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing. Iris Murdoch
wind sky wings
Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky. Giordano Bruno
window professor-mcgonagall break
Our Headmaster is taking a short break," said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window. J. K. Rowling
wind tree ears
I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe? Kate Chopin
wind gone cold
Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder. Karin Slaughter
wind secret-places secret
He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life. Ray Bradbury
wind matter indifference
No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference. Serge Gainsbourg
wind voice bombs
If my comrades are not destined to rule the world, then away with it! A shower of atom bombs upon it and in place of its meaningsless chatter about 'love' and 'peace' the voice of the howling wind over its ruins. Savitri Devi
wind may cold
The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not. Socrates
wind fool opinion
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
wind wizards gone
My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. I love the fairy tale of it. And Gone With the Wind was always one of my favorites because it's so dramatic and stunning. Meredith Brooks
wind needs nancy
We don't need to allow any more Nancy Pelosies to wind up in Congress. Michael Steele
wind meteors streaming
Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind. John Milton
wind water wonder
The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.
wind flags fool
I didn't know what was going on at the start in the swirling wind. The flags were all pointing in different directions and I thought the Irish had starched them just to fool us. Mike Watkins
wind scent may
Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone. John Muir
wind two space
Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
wind mistress made
Commerce has made all winds her mistress. John Sterling
wind long people
All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds. Sherwood Anderson
wind wings white
Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth. John Ruskin
wind shoes apples
Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to buy. So shoes are worn and hassocks are sat upon and finally everything is left where it was and the spirit passes on, just as the wind in the orchard picks up the leaves from the ground as if there were no other pleasure in the world but brown leaves, as if it would deck, clothe, flesh itself in flourishes of dusty brown apple leaves and then drops them all in a heap at the side of the house and goes on. Marilynne Robinson
wind lakes water
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. Matsuo Basho
wind guy jazz
Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers... Pat Metheny
wind singing
Megaphone in which the wind passes singing. Pablo Neruda
wind cities glasses
Between lips and lips there are cities of great ash and moist summit, drops of when and how, vague comings and goings: between lips and lips as along a shore of sand and glass the wind passes.
wind people world
I’m interested in what people do with the chaos in their lives and how they respond to it, and simultaneously what they do with what they feel like are limitations. If they push against these limitations, will they wind up in the realm of chaos, or will they push against limitations and wind up in the world of freedom? Philip Roth
wind breathe wave
The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave. Philip James Bailey