Quotation Explorer - 'Wind'

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. - Latin Proverb
The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. - Heinrich Heine
Let us be the wind of love that touches every heart and blows away all of the misery and sadness. - Debasish Mridha
FaithWALK~When I tell you to walk, run like the wind for your guaranteed to fly... - Tracie Berry-McGhee
Be flexible like trees; when the wind blows bend, but do not break. - Matshona Dhliwayo
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.
For the sea to be silent, wind must be silent, earthquake must be silent, boat must be silent, fish must be silent; behind every silence, there lies the silence of everything! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Sun and wind and beat of sea,Great lands stretching endlessly...Where be bonds to bind the free?All the world was made for me! - Adelaide Crapsey
Move on, sky is not limit, wind can touch you, water can dip you, mother will care you, wife will nurture you and above all, oneday you will see your child following, up above the sky; you became a star, twinkling, watching and waiting to come back again, on earth. - Santosh Kalwar
You should be kissed and often and by someone who knows how. -Rhett Bulter, Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell - Cathy Brockman
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Heap on more wood - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. - Sir Walter Scott
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. - Henry Ford
Savor the warmth of every sun-filled day, and the chill wind of every raging storm, weeds as much as flowers, the bitter and the sweet.
You can’t stop the wind, but you can learn to fly. - Debasish Mridha
Time and the wind never leave anything alone. - Marty Rubin
The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail. - François Fénelon
'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds. - Malaclypse the Younger
Tell Wind and Fire where to stop but don't tell me. - Charles Dickens
Wind has no feet,but travels great distances,and has no hands,but carries great objects. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. - Ashley Smith
The pools had been written onto the fields by the rain. The pools were a magic worked by the rain, just as the tumbling of the black birds against the grey was a spell that the sky was working and the motion of grey-brown grasses was a spell that the wind made. Everything had meaning. - Susanna Clarke
Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live. - Nora Roberts
On Collateral Damage: "Every limb lost, every hovel burned, every wife left husbandless, and every child orphaned created ripples of anger and resentment. Create enough of them, and we'll one day wind up with a wave that will wash us off the map. - Chris Holm
Many talk about flowing against the wind, but its only fools, who goes against the wind. The wise one’s, simply adjust themselves with the flow of the wind. - Roshan Sharma
The wind and the waves will toss you about, but it'll all be worth it. - Marty Rubin
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. - Bonnie Prudden
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered? - Kahlil Gibran
Grace will meet you in the valley, and her song will carry you home on the wind to another sky filled with ethereal beauty unfolding and love everlasting. - Shannon L. Alder
A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit, an enemy is the wind that blows it out. - Anthony Liccione
The stones were sharp,The wind came at my back;Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat. - Theodore Roethke
At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen,You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun.And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten,And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done. - Rudyard Kipling
Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame. - Gautama Buddha
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. - John Steinbeck
She persisted when I resisted. And thank God for that. Because the number of storms I needed to go through before appreciating the way the wind whipped through her hair was one to many. Now, I'd move mountains to make her mine. Rain or shine. - J. Raymond
You had the whole world to reduce it to the ashes and surrender it to the wind but the tragedy is;You chose the one, you chose. - Siddharth Bhatnagar
Blow, wind! Come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back. - William Shakespeare
The waters of the stream played the part of the orchestra, and the sunlight provided the dancers. Every now and then a crescendo of wind highlighted the symphony in the clearing by the creek. - Edward Mooney Jr.
Whenever you touch a poem that caresses your soul, breathe it gently for it might be the wind that perfects your life's goal. - A. Saleh
you know the way of the wind in the night—the desolate alleys my soul takes - John Geddes
A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases. - Homer
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
When we find that we have been aroused to anger we must call for God's help like the apostles when they were tossed about by the wind and storm on the waters. He will command your passions to cease and there will be a great calm. - Francis de Sales
Like a kite, carried by the wind, he followed her into the fluffy white clouds of her imagination. He didn't think her silly for living in the sky, but rather, he marveled at the wondrous life she had created on the outskirts of reality. He knew her love would elevate him to new emotional heights. - Jaeda DeWalt
Rush to danger; wind up nowhere. - Morrissey
In the cosmos of time, there's not a cocksucker in this room who is more than a fart in the wind! - Daniel S. Peña
With the wind of love, let your heart dance like a flower. - Debasish Mridha
He honestly believed, for an instant, that what he'd heard was music-a tune piped, a burble of notes, a little scrap of melody floating by on wind and breaking his heart. - Anne Tyler
Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise. But what I can't stand are hollow people. When I'm with them I just can't bare it, and wind up saying things I shouldn't. - Haruki Murakami
Going to the seaside in winter is like seeing your partner first thing in the morning. Ugly, depressing and troubled by wind. - Andy Leeks
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
What an ambiance, and such a pity I'm alone: Candles giving off their glow, gusts of wind and the light tapping of rain on the windowpane - a massage for the mind. And a comforting one, too. - Donna Lynn Hope
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools. - Henry Beston
Wind has no home in the world,and therefore wanders everywhere.Light has no home in the universe,and therefore returns to God. - Matshona Dhliwayo
You've broke me so many times, that putting myself back together, isn't the hard part anymore. I can do it with my eyes closed. The hardest part is watching you dangle from your own eyelids, trying to escape the mistake of planting me there.When I bloomed you left, like a cold wind. - Amber Dawn H.
Winter reaches its peaknot when a great wind screamsfrom the top of its lungs, but when a lazy breeze whispers from the bottom of its heart - shivaraj konanavar
The wind has many lovers and I am one of them, I move freely in her armsI know no chains, nor bound to anyone’s truth, you can call me a harlot of the wind, I take no offense, because I know at the end of my days, my face will show that I have been kissed by the breath of GOD.~Micheline Jean louis - Micheline Jean Louis
Wind is on fire" - beautiful words. What causes the fire, what enhances it, and what finally extinguishes it by itself or by bringing in rainclouds, gets identified with it. Do breath and life have the same relationship with each other! - R. N. Prasher
If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you. - Andrew Davidson
I am floating, I thought, completely without anchor, at the mercy of the wind. - S.J. Watson
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. - Roger de Rabutin de Bussy
We're all vulnerable. Mix the wrong feelings together, the right kind of bad with the wrong kind of good, and you'll wind up with a total breakdown. - Caterpillar from Alice
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. - Jim Rohn
I am a creator, writing like the wind, I carry the weight of a future world in the barrel of a pen, etching my characters into the paper with life giving ink so my dreams and reality might finally meet. - L.M. Fields
Don't quit. A wind from nowhere could turn it. - Johnnie Dent Jr.
I think your hair could blow every which ways in a high wind and still look pretty," he answered, then dropped his gaze and cleared his throat. "Uh, well, are you ready to go?" he added in a brisker tone."Joshua - Werner A. Lind
I will be fine; as far as the wind will bring me the memories i have spent with you - Wrushank Sorte
Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. - Christina Rossetti
When you become a raindrop in your mind Thunder is the closest friend you may find Wind lashed trees, dark clouds, lightning or the dust Everything you will bear once you adjust - Munia Khan
Let happiness bloomIn the freshness of your mind,In the gentle wind of your thoughts.On the ground of kindness and compassion. - Debasish Mridha
It always amazes me how people in Europe and the United States can be so indifferent to the speeches of their chancellor or president, for these worlds from the top can be a wind sock for what might happen next. - Paul Rusesabagina
There are some young almond tress, which ordinarily look as if drawn by a childish hand. Now, as the wind sets their weak branches gibbering, they seem like shamanistic scratches on the white bone of the brittle bright night. - John Collier
Can still windmills, still produce wind? Can a heart still love, when a heart no longer is? - N'Zuri Za Austin
Flowers are fragile and ephemeral...Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without sunlight...and a spindly fence has no power against a strong wind. - Haibara Ai - Gosho Aoyama
Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind. - P.G. Wodehouse
Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound. - Jimmy Carter
The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison. - Thomas Carlyle
Let us light up the fire, the wind is so calm and the night is falling - i see ur lips shiver and i can feel ur breath humping up. - Bobby Vj
Put off this sloth,' the master said, 'for shame!Sitting on feather-pillows, lying reclined Beneath the blanket is no way to fame -Fame, without which man's life wastes out of mind, Leaving on earth no more memorialThan foam in water or smoke upon the wind - Dante Alighieri
We don't see where the wind comes form, we hear it.In a way we become aware of our own Surroundings.Perception becomes reality.reality becomes Perception. - Jerril Thomas Abraham
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. - Kahlil Gibran
I love rainstorms...the thunder, lightning, wind, all of it. So much going on at once, so many emotions...just like me. - April Mae Monterrosa
There’s the wind on the heath, brother; if I could only feel that, I would gladly live for ever. - George Borrow
She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in men's image is a figure of doom. - Djuna Barnes
A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind. - Leon Tec
Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. - George Orwell
With…love of wind, there is no surer test of genuine Nature instinct that this. Any body can love sunshine. - anonymous, from "The Anthenaeum", 1877, in review of Thoreau
A life out of balance is a person that doesn’t believe happiness can be achieved now, or in the future. It is as fleeting as the wind. - Shannon L. Alder
Winter solitude-in a world of one colourthe sound of the wind. - Bashō Matsuo
A tree does not stop growing because the wind blew off a few of its leaves. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures...
If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him. - Seneca
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you pour out words from your heart to your lover, make sure they aren't on a paper vessel and lost to the wind. - Dixie Waters
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. - Seneca
Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The rain to the wind said,You push and I'll pelt.'They so smote the garden bedThat the flowers actually knelt,And lay lodged--though not dead.I know how the flowers felt. - Robert Frost
You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me. - Bob Marley
I see you better in music, I hear you better in wind, I feel you more in a flooding moonlight, that understands nothing, but darkness and silence. - Anthony Liccione
To all you writers, artists, musicians, creative types who want to give up: It's okay to walk away for a bit. Get your second wind. But your writing, art, music will be there, lurking over your shoulder, and it will call to you, and you will answer. And come back even stronger. - Kathleen M. Rodgers
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. - Socrates
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. - Robert Ingersoll
I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that. - Steve Jobs
Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air. - Sarah Kay
You've slipped away like a fistful of sand. You've vanished so quickly like a wind. Do you know how I long to hold you love of my life. - Euginia Herlihy
Watch an Ant, Watch the bees, feel wind move the leaves. Touch your smile above your chin from the glorious world we all live in. - Stanley Victor Paskavich
May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back, May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again may god hold you in the palm of his hand - unknown
We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away. - John Fowles
A nation aimlessly drifting away from God is a nation for which prayer is a rudder and praise is a sail. And it is the man or woman on their knees that builds the former and gives wind to the latter. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
And on this night, the last of its kind before we get married to each other at the stroke of 8 tomorrow in the evening, as I walk towards my bed to call the day off, the last puff of wind brought from a fairy-tale land urges me to write this letter as your girlfriend, for one last time. - Debalina Haldar
Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was. - Robin Green
Do you feel that? It is a calm shift in the wind. Do you hear that? It is a soft whisper of hope. Do you see that? It is the divine hand of guidance, mercifully extended to aid our good fight. - Richelle E. Goodrich
The Wind that Blows, the Water that Flows, the Sun that Glows, are all proof that a Power exists. Believe and Experience the Universal Power. - RVM
The wind is the moon's imagination wandering. - Saul Williams
Yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. - Bible
If seen from the outside, our lives are like leaves from the trees that seem to just feel the blows of the wind outside. But they have their life of their own so long as they are attached to the tree. An eye of introspection can make miracles happen for each one of us. - Taranpreet Singh
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
A wind starts to blow, without feelings,A song falls in love, without singing,A life will begin in melodies of the strings,May you find all pleasure of the light,God bless, Warrior of Light! - Santosh Kalwar
Trust what you know; have faith in where you go; if there's no wind, row; or go with the flow. - Ed Parrish III
A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything. - Joë Bousquet
Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain,And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again. - John Masefield
Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. - Bodie Thoene
So many Gods, so many creeds So many ways that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain. - Ken Scott
Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga. - William Zinsser
I wind up stretched across the couchstill nodding with Sherlock Holmesexamining our crushed veins - Jim Carroll
She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing yes in the sky. - Monique Duval
If I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from the easy tasks, what preparation would such sloth be for the future I propose myself? - Charlotte Brontë
You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows. - Bob Dylan
Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind. - Anthony Liccione
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. - John Ruskin
You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel. - Shannon L. Alder
What matters for the dialectician is having the wind of world history in his sails. Thinking for him means: to set the sails. It is the way they are set that matters. Words are his sails. The way they are set turns them into concepts. - Walter Benjamin
The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms. - Thich Nhat Hanh
The north wind brings forth rain, yet your wishes bring you hope. - Auliq Ice
Some little pieces of sand are so full of ego that they see themselves as a giant rock! But then the wind blows, the big ego flies in the air! - Mehmet Murat ildan
When the wind blows, the weak are carried away by it, the strong resist it, and the wise manipulate it. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Like a bird, fly against the wind of opinions to reach your destination. - Debasish Mridha
life weighs heavy upon my shoulders and patience starts wearing thin, it is divine hope and dreams which sustain me, pushing me forth against the wind. - Terry A. O'Neal
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. - Seneca
Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment. - Harlan Ellison
How can I blame the cherry blossomsFor rejecting this floating world And drifting away as the wind calls them - Shunzei's daughter
I look up to the sky and scream to the wind, 'Give me adventure.' She whispers back, 'You are braver than you know. - Marquita Burke-DeJesus
I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange. - Paulo Coelho
Discovering Distilled Creativity"Amazing how sitting down to listen with no distractions - no tv, no devices, no radio - can enhance your life; the sigh of the wind the only ambient noise. Then, in that still moment, your distilled creativity comes because you feel so connected to the Universe. - Sandra Sealy
Life is full of joy and beauty. Look around and notice it. Notice the little butterfly, a little baby with a smile, and the white rose in the garden. Notice a drop of dew on a green leaf in the morning sun. Touch the wind, smell the rain, and feel the joy. Live your life with beauty and joy. - Debasish Mridha
Life and death are natural dualities. Like water and fire, wind and earth. We do not control them, we never will. - Oumar Dieng
Vengeance is the outer shell of a blade which carries the core named Justice. Justice is the wind that decides Vengeance’s course. - LordBloodySoul
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. - Kahlil Gibran
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
The books we read in childhood don't exist anymore; they sailed off with the wind, leaving bare skeletons behind. Whoever still has in him the memory and marrow of childhood should rewrite these books as he experienced them. - Bruno Schulz
The wind plays its own music. - Bert McCoy
A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it's the same wind that blows them. - Frank O'Connor
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player. - George Bernard Shaw
Wind is the sacred music of the leaves; wherever and whenever the wind blows, over there leaves start their holy dancing frantically! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Your words like wings gravity they defy.My heart like a leaf on the wind catchin' rides.We make too much sense to foolishly pass it by.So I'm taking a rainbow up to the 5th floor.Steppin' out to see that you're really worth more. - Group 1 Crew
Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The truth is quite messy, like a wind blown room. - William J. Harris
Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude. - William Shakespeare
Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.
I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail. - Ricky Skaggs
I am the waves of the ocean, and I am always in love with the floating white clouds. I sing along with the wind and dance along with your thoughts and imaginations. - Debasish Mridha
I fall asleep with the sound of rain; I wake up with the songs of the wind. - Debasish Mridha
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. - Aesop
A great storm is like a sunny day to a person of great faith. A gentle wind is like a great storm to a person of great fear. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Find a strong glue and stick yourself to honesty! You shall feel like a wind, so light and so free! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze. - Titus Livius
The wind bloweth where it listeth. - Bible
Throwing caution to the wind, leaping merrily into the unknown,onwards they plunge,into the voyage of matrimony. - Gunbir Singh
History is a set of repeating circles, like the tide. The wind does blow through the ruins of tomorrow. But it is more a question of two steps forward, one step back. Humans and dragons make the same mistakes, again and again, but things do get better over time - Cressida Cowell
Wind and breeze are separated todayCrimson twilight denies to fade away Grass blades turn brown to match the soilWe pretend to smile at every turmoil - Munia Khan
The wind and sky know that there is no joy in unlimited freedom - Munia Khan
Is the moon walking,Or the clouds are joking?Is the wind passing,Or my hair is dancing?Is the night dark,Or my eyes are blank?Are the wolfs howling,Or my heart is screaming?Is the day arousing,Or my mind is shining?Is the world staring,Or I'm peeping?Is this alright to write,Or I'm mistaking? - Irfa Adam
One must give himself completely to his art and not hold back. Throw caution to the wind. Embrace the muse. Make love to your art. - Harley King
She leaned forward and kissed me on the lips. He mouth was cold, her lips rough from the winter wind, and if the mystics are right and we are doomed to repeat our squalid lives ad infinitum, at least I will always return to that kiss - David Benioff
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.
Turn over the rudder in God's name, and sail with the wind heaven sends us. - Catherine of Siena
Wind is wind. - Lailah Gifty Akita
She smashes her knuckles into winterAs autumn's wind fades into blackShe is the saint of all the sinners,the one whose fallen through the cracks...(iViva la Gloria!) - Green Day
The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling. - Wendell Berry
Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I goTo heal my heart and drown my woeRain may fall, and wind may blowAnd many miles be still to goBut under a tall tree will I lieAnd let the clouds go sailing by - J.R.R. Tolkien
Is it as plainly in our living shown,By which way the wind hath blown? - Adelaide Crapsey
Being happy is harder than being discontent. For happiness we have to roll up our sleeves and knock down houses of cards. Because of this exertion, many prefer to abide by ‘fake’ happiness.( " Happiness blowing in the wind. " ) - Erik Pevernagie
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. - Sir Robert Hutchinson
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed. - Chinese Proverb
Wherever you go, be the thunder of joy and the wind of optimism. - Debasish Mridha
Always the following wind of historyOf others' wisdom makes a buoyant airTill we come suddenly on pockets where Is nothing loud but us; where voices seemAbrupt, untrained, competing with no lieOur fathers shouted once. - W.H. Auden
a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long. - E.E. Cummings
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. - George Orwell
To a fireman, wind is a curse. To a sailor, wind is a blessing. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It's the same old story. A man came like the beautiful wind, left like a destructive storm. - Luan
life separates us as the wind separetes the Dandelion flower petals - Me Noor Marwan
Honour bought of coin is but grass in the wind. When the wind blows south it leans south; when the wind blows north so does it lean. Hardly solid rock upon which to forge sturdy trust nor imperishable friendship - JJ Matebesi
If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your back.
I know I’m not the only one whose life is a conditional clausehanging from something to do with spring and one tall room and the tremble of my phone.I’m not the only one that love makes feel like a dozenflapping bedsheets being ripped to prayer flags by the wind. - Noah Warren
No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You’ll have lots of company. - Hunter S. Thompson
They were the men and the women of the sand, of the wind, of the light, of the night. They appeared as in a dream, at the crest of a dune, as if they were born of the cloudless sky. - Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio
I believe it’s incredibly important to write against [racial] stereotypes. If we give in and make sure that all black women characters are asexual, gentle, and kind we wind up with another set of stereotypes. - Justine Larbalestier
My love for you won't stop with my leaving. Come an evening over the years, when you step outside your door and hear the wind blowing through the cottonwoods, that'll be me, thinking of you, whispering your name, and loving you. - Penelope Williamson
A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; courage to leave the known for the unknown! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Dead tree branches rattled,the cold wind seethed, it prattled of abominations about to unfold.A lone wolf howled,the full moon it prowled,ready for evils untold. - A. Lee Brock
Sometimes a strong wind blows suddenly and you leave your beloved tree without saying even goodbye, like a pale autumn leaf! This uncertainty of life makes every moment in life infinitely precious. - Mehmet Murat ildan
I'm the wave pushed by the wind, always receding before reaching the shore. - H.U.
Speak well of the sun, but know that it can harm you;when enraged, it is pitiless. Speak well of the ocean, but know that it can injure you; when angry, it is merciless. Speak well of the wind, but know that it can wound you; when provoked, it is ruthless. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. - George Orwell
Its embarrassing, you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on a Best Sellers List. - Abbie Hoffman
Warm summer sun, shine brightly here, Warm Southern wind, blow softly here, Green sod above, lie light, lie light, Good night, dear heart; good night, good night. - Mark Twain
The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone. - Jalaluddin Rumi
I can see God in a daisy. I can see God at night in the wind and rain. I see Creation just about everywhere. The highest form of song is prayer. King David's, Solomon's, the wailing of a coyote, the rumble of the Earth. - Bob Dylan
I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . . - Anaïs Nin
It's an ill wind that blows when you leave the hairdresser. - Phyllis Diller
Humor is a second wind. - Marty Rubin
Don't let someone keep putting out the flame God keeps re-lighting, we all have a purpose. As a wing to a bird. As wind that goes the destiny over the sea. - Anthony Liccione
If I am more alive because love burns and chars me,as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation,it's that he who lays me low is my salvation,and invigorates the more, the more he scars me. - Michelangelo Buonarroti
For, like the wind, the sun, or the flowing river, like a soaring man-of-war or a beetle under a stone, like a spider at a web or a crab scuttling sideways across a shore, Nimrod was free. - Andrea Levy
There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. - James Russell Lowell
Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger and then lift it to the wind; always know what is going on, my friend, so this world can never steer you wrong again. - Criss Jami
even in death, his last breath was poetryexisting in the wind and on the breeze of"it used to be likes" forever remembering,yet never relivinghis lifewill never be what it used to be like. - N'Zuri Za Austin
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall. - Dante Alighieri
We watch the sky, we watch it alive and we watch it die, looking for signs. We live like wind, with hope in wings that we will get there, never sooner or never later, but at a right time. - Anthony Liccione
Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence. I know that my trunk rose from his warmth, but that's all, because my branches hardly move at all near the ground, and just wave a little in the wind. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Life do your worst; we are plump of knee and mild of eye, we are douce, glib and blithe; we inherit the semi, while others inherit the wind. - Hilary Mantel
For a man he get his own ship and his own strong wind, but he cannot stop missing all the passing breezes that never come again. - Tahar Mtibaa
Winning is a lot like shaving. If you don't do it all the time, you wind up looking like a bum.
And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee. - Anne Bronte
Always be like a water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface. - Santosh Kalwar
Should you wish to pursue the infinity of truth, you must make yourself humble as ashes and vigorous as the wind. - Abhijit Naskar
As he spoke, the wind whistled through the gaps in his teeth, creating an odd musical accompaniment to his words. -- unpublished as of Jan 11 2016, but surely due to appear in one of my works eventually. - Kira Stone
The tags' chain stirs with the wind; and I sleepPaid, dead, and a soldier. Who fights for his own lifeLoses, loses: I have killed for my world, and am free. - Randall Jarrell
I sail on the ocean of possibilities with the wind of hope and the current of desires moving me to the shore of uncertainty. - Debasish Mridha
And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball. - Eduardo Galeano
My tomb shall be in a spot where the north wind may scatter roses over it. - Omar Khayyám
You are to me,what wind is to dry leaves.The reason for me to fall,the reason for me to fly. - Seekerohan
I think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and state in America, I don’t believe in God, but if I did I would say that sex is a Godgiven right. Otherwise it’s the end of our species. - Kevin Bacon
The church trembled and the hail hammered the roof, but his words glided in the air, joyful and bright like the birds at the cliffs. They floated freely around one another without colliding and the wind carried them high up into heaven. - Fridik Erlings
Take a break to listen to the song of the wind, talk to the whispering trees, feel the love of flowers, dance with the dancing leaves, and enjoy the tranquility and serenity of nature. - Debasish Mridha
Turn to the wind, I dare youFor time is but a space that is capturedLive in fear or peace, which will you?For none shall stand at easeIn fickleness of all human natureYou will fear while in peace and complain while in fear. - F.N.Collier
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. - Winston S. Churchill
The sun rises, the sun falls, the wind blows and the birds sing no matter where you are. These are experiences that unite us all... something we can all enjoy together - Melanie Charlene
Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything...death is not...It's the absence of presence, nothing more...the endless time of never coming back...a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes no sound... - Tom Stoppard
I find the great in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,-but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
To understand the song of life, listen to the melody of wind and ocean and watch the dance of waves and water. - Debasish Mridha
To find the meaning of life, enjoy the journey, the beauty of the nature, the glint of a dew drop, the warmth of the morning sun, the songs of the wind, and smiles of flowers. These are all there to make your journey worthwhile and make your life meaningful. - Debasish Mridha
I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake plant. - Anthony Liccione
Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I Have Learned Why People Work So Hard To Succeed: It Is Because They Envy The Things Their Neighbors Have. But It Is Useless. It Is Like Chasing The Wind....It Is Better To Have Only A Little, With Peace Of Mind, Than Be Busy All The Time With Both Hands, Trying To Catch The Wind - Anonymous
So rest a while, we can talk in the cool of the evening. Or the cool of the morning. There 's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was." -HawkWho had been ArchmageThe Other Wind - Ursula K. Le Guin
Why doesn't anyone tell you we all wind up married to Henry the VIII?......My dear Anne Boleyn,...the only way a woman can avoid waking up next to Henry is to model herself after his daughter Elizabeth and sleep next to no one at all. - Judith Claire Mitchell
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. - Jim Wallis
May you never know hunger May you love with a full heart The light burn in your eyes May the fire be your friend And the sea rock you gently May the moon light your way Till the wind sets you free
In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago. - Christina Rossetti
The wind at the top of the mountain is always the strongest, but if you do not give up, the journey down will always be easier. - Liz Zombie
These guys are tough, this world is crazy and the wind here is crazy strong! However if I want a normal life for once I have to try harder! Angel - From Revenge of the Gloobas. Coming soon! - Angel Ramon Medina
I give you the end of a golden string,Only wind it into a ball,It will lead you in at Heaven's gateBuilt in Jerusalem's wall. - William Blake
...You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. - Bob Dylan
She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath. - Thomas Hardy
The 2 prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.As the tag line of my favorite dirty joke would have it: "Keep your hat on. We could wind up miles from here. - Kurt Vonnegut
You can grow like a tall tree, when you enjoy the sun, wind, rain, storms and the stars in the dark nights. - Amit Ray
Love is wind for the soul - D. Antoinette Foy
We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing - Ralph Waldo Emerson
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. - Bible
Dating a man is like flying a kite. You only need to know when to wind up the string or let it out. - Jenna Alatari
Broken Wind believed that we are traumatized as babies by intestinal gas or colic. The great shaman invented a technique called "gastral projection" to help release these traumas. His philosophy was simple: "To air is human ... but to really cut one loose is divine. - Swami Beyondananda
I sometimes wish I could spontaneously combust. Burn until nothing but ash is left, to be washed away by the wind and the rain. - A.B. Shepherd
UtteranceSitting over wordsVery late I have heard a kind of whispered sighingNot farLike a night wind in pines or like the sea in the darkThe echo of everything that has everBeen spokenStill spinning its one syllableBetween the earth and silence - W.S. Merwin
Wind either breaks a tree or teaches it to dance. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The era of biologically toxic wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation and harmonic electronic power generation from wind and solar systems with their adverse brain modifying effects that can bring on irritable and aggressive behaviors has made it a bad time to be a police officer. - Steven Magee
The rain out again, hammering the puddles full of holes, pocking the black-and-silver world with shining darkness. Rain soaks each leaf and blade of grass, bloating the lawns until they seem to roll and swell. Houses recede. The wind rises. The eyes and ears of God come down for the walk". - Mary Gatskill
Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored. Writing is a jealous and needy lover. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts. - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind. - Chinese Proverb
The wind languished. The floral curtain ceased flapping. The moonlight streamed through, lighting up her face. It was a young, animated face. At that moment, it touched a string, a peg, deep inside him. - Qiu Xiaolong
Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind as Man's ingratitude. - William Shakespeare
Words are whips in the wind traveling between lovers. - Faith Tilley Johnson
If you move faster than the music, it will look strange; if you move slower than the music, it will look strange! Be like autumn leaves which follow exactly the rhythm of the wind! - Mehmet Murat ildan
No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind. - Dick Gregory
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