Wind Quotes - Page 7

Small victories are bet­ter than none.

The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is expressed in the term nonduality. If we look deeply, we find that we do not have a separate self-identity, a self that does not include sun and wind, earth and water, creatures and plants, and one another.

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.

I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.

However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again.

The winds of God's grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.

I think a portfolio standard should go beyond wind, solar and geothermal energy to include renewable energy like hydropower and clean alternatives such as coal gasification, clean coal, nuclear energy and, finally, credits for achieving new levels of efficiency and conservation.

Rastafari means to live in nature, to see the Creator in the wind, sea and storm. Other religions pointed to the sky, and while we were looking in the sky, they dug up all the gold and diamonds and went away with them

I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can't agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish guns that we don't wind up with counter-productive legislation that will leave armed only the people most likely to do harm with them.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane.

Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.

If you escape from people too often,, you wind up escaping from yourself.

Learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain, the snow and moon.

Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.

Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.

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.

The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.

Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the problem: this strange belief that a tree has nothing to say until it is murdered, its flesh pulped, and then (human) people stain this flesh with words. I would take children outside and put them face to face with chipmunks, dragonflies, tadpoles, hummingbirds, stones, rivers, trees, crawdads. That said, if you're going to force me to give them a book, it would be The Wind In The Willows, which I hope would remind them to go outside.