Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lyn Nofziger

If George W. Bush really has the courage of his convictions the United States very soon will either wind up dominating the United Nations (as it should) or rendering it impotent (which would probably be even better).

Lyndon B. Johnson

The time has come when we cannot be so careless. Unless we do better, we may suffer through a stark emergency of the environment. We may create a hostile world: a world to bruise ourselves against; a world of sprawling cities, unplanned or badly planned; a world whose water is full of sludge, whose winds are full of soot; a world whose landscape has been totally neglected, stripped, marred, and wasted. All of this need not happen if we choose well, and particularly if we plan well and if we act well.

Lowell Bergman

The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Only we should not be influenced by the winds.

Freida Pinto

In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it.

We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt.

Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.

Og Mandino

The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

Og Mandino

The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

Norman Mailer

If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.

Omar Khayyam

Into this universe, and why not knowing Nor whence, like water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as wind along the wate, I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.

O. Henry

It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.

Emily Bronte

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 Giffin

You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can wind up focusing on misleading factors.

Emily Dickinson

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

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!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.

Henry James

Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open.

John Knowles

As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.

Joe Louis

You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.

Joan Didion

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

Joan Didion

It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination. ... The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

Emma Goldman

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

Damian Marley

Did you know that IExist before the earthAnd did you know my eyesAre windows to the world.

A lot of times, those windows can be refurbished.

Husain Haqqani

this may take the wind out of their sails.

There was no wind and that helped. The fairways were soft.

It was probably the worst the wind has been. You couldn't really read it.

Hayao Miyazaki

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.