Wind famous quotes

When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.
-- Emma Lazarus

#Angel #Fire #Wind

Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.
-- Empedocles

#Rain #Wind #Sea

Celia." he says without looking up at her, "why do we wind our watch?" "Because everything requires energy," she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. "We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.
-- Erin Morgenstern

#Eye #Hands #Wind

You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.
-- Ernest Gaines

#Wind #Broken

The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.
-- Ernest Hemingway

#Men #Wind #Sea

It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.
-- Ernest K. Gann

#Frustration #Wind #Sailing

My dream of happiness: a quiet spot by the Jamaican seashore . . . hearing the wind sob with the beauty and the tragedy of everything. Sitting under an almond tree, with the leaf spread over me like an umbrella.
-- Errol Flynn

#Dream #Wind #Tree

There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own field the biochemist Fritz Lipmann or the much maligned Linus Pauling were very talented people. But generally, geniuses everywhere seem to have died out by 1914. Today, most are mediocrities blown up by the winds of the time.
-- Erwin Chargaff

#Real #Men #Wind

It is so often the odd, the unexpected, the apparently trifling, that stamps itself upon the memory for ever, while much more memorable things pass away like a breath of wind.
-- Esther Meynell

#Memories #Memorable #Wind

Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it, and it will die. But leave it to thrive in the soil, untouched, and it will weather both gods and winds. It is born with the soil, and it will live so long as the soil shall live.
-- Etgar Keret

#Men #Wind #Weather

Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace.
-- Etheridge Knight

#Love #Rocks #Wind

Anchorman' is my favorite movie of all time and Ron Burgundy is one of my favorite characters of all time. It's my 'Gone With the Wind.
-- Eva Mendes

#Anchorman #Character #Wind

If Americans could choose, would they choose to work on the infrastructure for cancer-causing oil power or would they choose to work on the infrastructure for health-reviving wind power?
-- Evangeline Lilly

#Cancer #Wind #Oil

There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil or sun, coal or wind, gas or algae, the economy will be stimulated by the investment. The economy, unlike each of us, is not swayed by ideology.
-- Evangeline Lilly

#Jobs #Wind #Oil

I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.
-- Evel Knievel

#Hair #Wind #Feelings

I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.
-- Evelyn Ashford

#Running #Wind #Feel Good

Always I shall be one who loves the wilderness: Swaggers and softly creeps between the mountain peaks; I shall listen long to the sea's brave music; I shall sing my song above the shriek of desert winds.
-- Everett Ruess

#Song #Wind #Sea

Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Flower #Wind #Lips

The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind.
-- Fábio Moon

#Escaping #Wind #Waiting

Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.
-- Fay Weldon

#Wind #Sail #Critics

I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind’s knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I’ve placed the eyeless head of all my desires.
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Knives #Wind #Desire

Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?
-- Felix Frankfurter

#Sports #Wind #Doctrine

I like to start off my day with a glass of champagne...I like to wind it up with a glass of champagne, too. To be frank, I also like a glass or two in between. It may not be the universal medicine for every disease, as my friends in Reims and Epernay so often tell me, but it does you less harm than any other liquid.
-- Fernand Point

#Wine #Wind #Two

Ere the dolphin dies Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath Are tropic winds before the voice of death.
-- Fitz-Greene Halleck

#Death #Wind #Voice

Dream Song of Thunders: Sometimes I go about pitying Myself, While I am carried by the wind Across the sky.
-- Frances Densmore

#Dream #Song #Wind

The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard.
-- Frances Parkinson Keyes

#Wind #Snow #Wicked

A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment, as the night wind began to come down from the hills, but it felt like a breath from another world.
-- Francis Marion

#Night #Hair #Wind

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.
-- Francis Quarles

#Fire #Wind #Soul

L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Passion #Fire #Wind

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Learning #Fire #Wind

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.
-- Frank Herbert

#Wall #Wind #One Day

Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind ... but we won’t break.
-- Fred Rogers

#Blow #Wind #People

Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever...I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.
-- Frederick Douglass

#Stars #Wind #Forever

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.
-- Frederick Soddy

#Wind #Civilization #Energy

Heat energy of uniform temperature [is] the ultimate fate of all energy. The power of sunlight and coal, electric power, water power, winds and tides do the work of the world, and in the end all unite to hasten the merry molecular dance.
-- Frederick Soddy

#Hard Work #Fate #Wind

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

#Wind #Perfect #Joy

The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Men #Wind #Storm

We cannot organize revival, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from Heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again
-- G. Campbell Morgan

#Blow #Wind #People

According to a recent study, depression is described as being the disease most destructive to humankind, largely because of the devastation it wreaks on our lives.... Yes, we could set up our minds to ignore our feelings and barricade ourselves from the winds and dust of the brain pattern. And we could become like robots, refusing to consider the passion and joys that could be ours. But then, we also might as well be dead.
-- G. Frank Lawlis

#Passion #Dust #Wind

Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere, as far as the mountain.
-- Gabrielle Roy

#Wind #House #Curiosity

The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.
-- Garet Garrett

#War #Blow #Wind

Clambering up the Cold Mountain path, The Cold Mountain trail goes on and on: The long gorge choked with scree and boulders, The wide creek, the mist-blurred grass. The moss is slippery, though there's been no rain The pine sings, but there's no wind. Who can leap the world's ties And sit with me among the white clouds?
-- Gary Snyder

#Rain #Clouds #Wind

(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.
-- Gayle Forman

#Wind #Coffins #Good Intentions

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.
-- Gelett Burgess

#Wind #Sky #Imagination

He had no one but himself to blame, for he’d opened himself up to it. Just a fraction at first, like a crack in a window. But the funny thing was, once you welcomed in a breeze, there was no stopping what came next. A wind, a storm, thunder and lightning, until you could no longer reach the window to close it—and didn’t really want to anyway. That’s what this new darkness was. Evil in its purest form... -Paris
-- Gena Showalter

#Wind #Funny Things #Paris

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.
-- Gene Tierney

#Wind #Bottles #Littles

We choose--or choose not--to be alone when we decide whom we will accept as our fellows, and whom we will reject. Thus an eremite in a mountain is in company, because the birds and coneys, the initiates whose words live in his 'forest books,' and the winds--the messengers of the Increate--are his companions. Another man, living in the midst of millions, may be alone, because there are none but enemies and victims around him.
-- Gene Wolfe

#Book #Men #Wind

God, who winds up our sundials ...
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

#God #Wind #Sundials

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

#Names #Two #Wind

Anybody who tunes into Rush Limabaugh already knows what he's going to say and is already inclined to agree. So it winds up creating tribes.
-- George A. Romero

#Wind #Creating #Tunes

The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
-- George Crumb

#Wind #Water #Bird

When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .
-- George Eliot

#Rain #Men #Wind

Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.
-- George Eliot

#Summer #Winter #Wind

Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.
-- George Eliot

#Blow #Wind #Bird

The moon twangs its silver strings; The river swoons into town; The wind beds down in the pines, Covers itself with stars.
-- George Elliott Clarke

#Stars #Moon #Wind

Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind.
-- George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#Wind #Mind #Bark

George: 'Ringo would always say grammmatically incorrect phrases and we'd all laugh. I remember when we were driving back to Liverpool from Luton up the M1 motorway in Ringo's Zephyr, and the car's bonnet hadn't been latched properly. The wind got under it and blew it up in front of the windscreen. We were all shouting, 'Aaaargh!' and Ringo calmly said, 'Don't worry, I'll soon have you back in your safely-beds.
-- George Harrison

#Wind #Laughing #Worry

The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.
-- George Horace Lorimer

#Wind #Energy #Doe

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.
-- George Iles

#Fall #Wind #Long

May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face, and the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.
-- George Jung

#Stars #Destiny #Wind

We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.
-- George Leigh Mallory

#Wind #Teeth

Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn and dead, participates - men are no more than bits of paper blown on the cold wind.
-- George Mackay Brown

#Men #Wind #Stories

Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.
-- George Matthew Adams

#Sports #Heart #Wind

What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!
-- George Matthew Adams

#Beautiful #Wind #Sea

God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.
-- George Peele

#Wind #Tree #March

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.
-- George R. R. Martin

#Fear #Wind #Snow

Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.
-- George R. R. Martin

#Wind #Tragedy #Glory

In the end words are just wind.
-- George R. R. Martin

#Wind #Ends

Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.
-- George R. R. Martin

#Wind #Promise #Blunt

Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.
-- George R. R. Martin

#Men #Wind #Vow

Words are wind, Brienne told herself. They cannot hurt you. Let them wash over you.
-- George R. R. Martin

#Hurt #Wind #Over You

For herself, she wanted sleet and ice, howling winds, thunder to shake the very stones of the Red Keep. She wanted a storm to match her rage.
-- George R. R. Martin

#Ice #Wind #Storm

It was bitingly cold up here,and the wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover.
-- George R. R. Martin

#Wind #Clothes #Lovers

He who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self-indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation.
-- George S. Clason

#Self #Wind #Sowing

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
-- George Santayana

#Clouds #Air #Wind

Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought To whisper what their roots had found. (“A Dream of Fear”)
-- George Sterling

#Dream #Wind #Roots

Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill. Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.
-- George Washington

#Blow #Wind #Sea

A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, "it will all blow over now." Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.
-- George William Russell

#Men #Blow #Wind

It is through an "intimate cessation of all intellectual operations" that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in its little complacency. ... The difference between inner experience and philosophy resides principally in this: that in experience, ... what counts is no longer the statement of wind, but the wind.
-- Georges Bataille

#Philosophy #Wind #Differences

Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift molded ever and melted across skies?
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins

#Summer #Wind #Sky

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.
-- Geronimo

#Children #Thinking #Wind

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.
-- Geronimo

#Sleep #Wind #People

I enjoy the independence of single-handling a boat. I like controlling the elements, making the wind and the waves and the water work for me.
-- Gerry Schwartz

#Inspirational #Wind #Water

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.
-- Giacomo Casanova

#Eye #Wind #Fixed

Cooking for me is a way to wind down. It's different from cooking on camera, where you have to do everything twice, for a wide shot and a close-up.
-- Giada De Laurentiis

#Wind #Cooking #Cameras

Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.
-- Gilbert Highet

#Wind #Water #Stupidity

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

#Clouds #Wind #Sky

Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to the brook running cool over polished stones, to bees drowsy with the weight of pollen. If we attend to the music of the earth, we reach serenity. And then, in some unexplained way, we share it with others.
-- Gladys Taber

#Running #Wind #Voice

November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.
-- Gladys Taber

#Air #Wind #Sound

The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God reduced to the role of cramped advocate of current national policy. Surely the pages of history are replete and the examples in many a foreign country convincing that this kind of church-state union-whatever the original motives, or however noble the original purposes-winds up with a state that is less than stable and a church that is less than sanctified, and with the poor still hungry.
-- Glenn Archer

#Country #Government #Wind

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.
-- Glenn Close

#Wind #Gone #Dressers

I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of.
-- Glenn Ford

#Silly #Wind #Actors

United will break caution to the wind
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Wind #Break #Caution

I'm not an elected official who puts a finger in the wind to see what the majority thinks; I represent women, whether they're popular or not.
-- Gloria Allred

#Thinking #Wind #Majority

I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley

#Wind #Lds #Tree

Who knows the tryst a man keeps with the wind and sky.
-- Gordon MacQuarrie

#Men #Wind #Sky

According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to move. He had not, it seems, sufficient foresight to make it a perpetual motion. Nay, the machine of God's making, so imperfect, according to these gentlemen; that he is obliged to clean it now and then by an extraordinary concourse, and even to mend it, as clockmaker mends his work.
-- Gottfried Leibniz

#God #Moving #Wind

Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into private investment accounts. An average Latina could wind up losing thousands of dollars under this proposal.
-- Grace Napolitano

#Average #Wind #Dollars

Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.
-- Grace Paley

#War #Wind #Oil

I could not see the speedometer, and was not accustomed to travelling in an open vehicle, but I estimated that we were consistently exceeding the speed limit. Discordant sound, wind, risk of death—I tried to assume the mental state that I used at the dentist.
-- Graeme Simsion

#Wind #Risk #Sound