Quotes about wind
wind insanity mind
Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind. Charles Baudelaire
wind rifles elements
You can hire your advisor and then just apply a windage factor, like I used to do when I was a rifle shooter. I'd just adjust for so many miles an hour wind. Or you can learn the basic elements of your advisor's trade. You don't have to learn very much, by the way, because if you learn just a little then you can make him explain why he's right. Charlie Munger
wind wings pathways
Tell me, ye wingèd winds That round my pathway roar, Know ye not some spot Where mortals weep no more? Charles Mackay
wind oil needs
There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources. Bill McKibben
wind soul grace
Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace. Bernard of Clairvaux
wind agents may
You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end? Arthur Conan Doyle
window theory ifs
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary. Bela Lugosi
wind shapes sides
Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course. Asa Gray
wind white goes-on
There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore. Diane Ackerman
wind belly
Retain the wind by compressing the belly. Desiderius Erasmus
wind skins mortality
We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality. Djuna Barnes
wind sea feet
The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet. Alexis de Tocqueville
wind darkness woods
I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.) Bret Easton Ellis
wind bother senate
The wind doesn't bother me. I'm in the US Senate. Bob Dole
wind keys low-self-esteem
Proud to steal her anything she sees, but you will wind up peeking through her key hole down upon your knees. Bob Dylan
wind answers
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
wind coats arms
A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails of his thin coat flapping behind him. Billy Collins
wind joy path
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path. Bodhidharma
wind sail cant-change
You can't change the wind but you can set your sails. Billie Joe Armstrong
wind play tennis
When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis. Chris Evert
wind useless ships
Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless. Charles Spurgeon
wind tree green
In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes. Dean Koontz
wind people black
The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X. Ben Stein
wind fire desire
From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire. Bayard Taylor
wind mind sailor
A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own. Avi
wind mind safe
A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.
wind
She outran the wind to get back into the house.
wind rivers white
I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones. Bruce Chatwin
wind appreciate attention
Horror I appreciate is one of the few genres that can wind the audience up and make them pay attention. I kind of like that. It's one of the few genres that can be very manipulative. Bruce Campbell
window thrown
All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window. Archie Shepp
wind dawn grass
There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass. Archibald MacLeish
wind sail knows
You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails. Barbara Kingsolver
wind sky one-day
Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.