Famous Quotes & Sayings

Penelope Mitchell

I uprooted my life from Australia and came over to America with the idea of pursuing my acting career. I wasn't really sure where I would end up. I threw caution to the wind.

Paulo Coelho

Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.

Paulo Coelho

You can't change the wind. But you can adjust the sails to reach your destination

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth fluttered under them. The earth was dancing with the cranes, and the low sun, and the wind and sky.

Mason Cooley

Those who follow where their genitals lead them often wind up in tedious company.

Mason Cooley

Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all.

Mem Fox

I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.

Margaret Mitchell

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

Margaret Halsey

the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.

Michael Lewis

The incentive for the outsider is to attack the system right up to the moment he is co-opted by it. The incentive for the insider -and this took some getting used to- is to allow yourself to be attacked, and then co-opt your most ferocious attackers, and their best ideas. The effect on the system as a whole is to make it more stable, because everyone winds up working on its behalf.

Melissa Walker

Maybe you're getting into the rhythm of sailing life," says James. He looks out at the waves that are rolling in to lap against the dock. "You know, the tides going in and then out, the wind blowing east and then west, the high of a perfect day out on the water, the low of a thunderstorm or a wind that won't go your way.

Neal Shusterman

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

Milarepa

To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.

Lance Armstrong

You know what they say, the high trees get the wind.

James Joyce

Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.

James Joyce

Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.

Laurence Sterne

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

Libba Bray

The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind.

Friedrich Schiller

What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.

Henry David Thoreau

First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it.

This has nothing to do with the Fed. This is all end-of-quarter window dressing.

You can see we have a big, big problem, and the weather's not cooperating. The winds are relentless.

James Franco

The wind came in languid gusts like whispered reminders.

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.

Frederick Soddy

The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do, what we react to, and how we feel.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or green on the red side or violet on the yellow side, it would give us the same impression as a north wind coming from the southwest.

Jim Varney

Please leave the window open.

Jim Wallis

You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes... You will be surprised at how fast the politicians adjust to the change in the wind.

Robert Kiyosaki

Someone who seeks low-risk investments never really feels investing is safe and someone who is always right eventually winds up wrong

Taylor Swift

Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street; faster than the winds, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly.

Sophocles

Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune.