Quotes about wind
wind voice broken
And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of love, its voice An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled) But not for long to hold each desperate choice. Hart Crane
wind perfect victory
I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me. Haile Gebrselassie
wind bridges giving
Give me a few bits of wool to stick on the car, a good gust of mistral wind, and I could come up with a better aerodynamic package on the bridge at Avigon Jean Alesi
wind silence vibrations
If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad. Jayne Anne Phillips
wind oil evil
I talk about reducing our dependence on foreign oil. If we're buying electricity from a solar-thermal plant in Tijuana, I'm not sure we should say that's evil. If we are buying wind power from Alberta, I don't have a huge objection to that. Jay Inslee
window strikes
There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard. Joseph Joubert
wind people awful
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people. Milton Friedman
wind winds-of-change
The winds of change are blowing at the RNC. Mike Duncan
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-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 cities tree
And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had nestled among their trees, wind wheels similar to those he saw and bearing like vast advertisements, gaunt and distinctive symbols of the new age, cast their whirling shadows and stored incessantly the energy that flowed away incessantly through all the arteries of the city. ... The great circular shapes of complaining wind-wheels blotted out the heavens ... H. G. Wells
wind mills
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes. George Herbert
window ready fairs
To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
wind sides
Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.
wind soul affliction
Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening
wind names two
The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread. Georg C. Lichtenberg
wind abuse trying
One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching." Friedrich Nietzsche
wind fire rocks
Nor fire, nor rocks, can stop our furious minds, Nor waves, nor winds. Francis Quarles
wind fire soul
My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind. Than wind? The fire. And what than fire? The mind. What's lighter than the mind? A thought. Than thought? This bubble world. What than this bubble? Nought.
wind names leader
Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of Change has blown. My own vote goes to Hugh Kingsmill as leader of this opposition.
wind sea skills
She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft. Homer
wind white clouds
Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.
wind
I come like Water, and like Wind I go. Edward Fitzgerald
wind safety scary
There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net. Howard Schultz
wind focus company
When you start a company, it's a singular focus. You have the wind at your back.
wind civilization creating
Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts. Jamais Cascio
wind sea white
Silver flow the streams from Celos to Erui In the green fields of Lebennin! Tall grows the grass there. In the wind from the Sea The white lilies sway, And the golden bells are shaken of mallos and alfirin In the green fields of Lebennin, In the wind from the Sea! J. R. R. Tolkien
wind drawing east
But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near.
wind somewhere-else lost
If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else. Not all those who wander are lost.
wind people world
Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty. Isaac Asimov