Wind Quotes - Page 12

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street; faster than the winds, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly.

Happiness comes the way the wind blows.

There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.

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.

We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.

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.

There are possibilities that dreams are our little windows upon a parallel timeline.

When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane

Time is a keyhole.... We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do--the wind that blows through the keyhole--is the breath of all the living universe.

I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground.

Lean forward into your life... catch the best bits and the finest wind. Just tip your feathers in flight a wee bit and see how dramatically that small lean can change your life.

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...

My father was a very successful businessman, but he was ruined in the stock market crash. A big stockbroker jumped out the window and fell on his pushcart.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.

Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now that’s a blessing.

The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the kite soars a little higher; sometimes the wind is too rough and we have to lower it a little, and sometimes it gets caught among the tree branches; but to reach the upper strata of pure bliss-ah, perhaps never.

It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem to slip away like sand in the wind.

My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would separate forever. “Hold tight,” I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to.