Wind Quotes - Page 50

As long as you have a window, life is exciting.

Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays.

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

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

He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.

And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.

I have always attached great importance to the manner in which an experiment is set up and conducted ... the experiment should be set up to open as many windows as possible on the unforeseen.

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.

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

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.

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try.

The bitter winds in February were sometimes called the First East Winds, but the longing for spring somehow made them seem more piercing.

In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of the marvels of convergent technology, the thing you type on and the window you stare out of are now the same thing.

The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All merry things are now at rest, Save thee, my pretty love!

A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.

My parents told me they were going to kill me at least a thousand times growing up. "I'm gonna kill you," and then they'd whack me on the side of the head or whatever. And "What's wrong with you?" And "I'm gonna lock you up," and "I'm gonna throw you out the window," and "I'm gonna kill you." You know, all these things that you say in the heat of a normal chaotic household.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray as far as the eye could see. They grouped in the road at the top of a rise and looked back. The storm front towered above them and the wind was cool on their sweating faces. They slumped bleary-eyed in their saddles and looked at one another. Shrouded in the black thunderheads the distant lightning glowed mutely like welding seen through foundry smoke. As if repairs were under way at some flawed place n the iron dark of the world.

Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.

He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again. Everything uncoupled from its shoring. Unsupported in the ashen air. Sustained by a breath, trembling and brief. If only my heart were stone.

These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

If Bill Gates woke up with Oprah's money he'd jump out the window.

Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free.