Wind Quotes - Page 84

Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

Ive been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.

The one who tries to get something for nothing generally winds up getting nothing for something.

I Still Have Everything You Gave Me It is dusty on the edges. It is slightly rotten. I guard it without thinking. I focus on it once a year when I shake it out in the wind. I do not ache. I would not trade.

A poem is a cup of words open to the sky and wind in a bucket.

As a child I read all kinds of stuff, whether it was 'Asterix and Obelix' and 'Tin Tin' comic books, or 'Lord of the Rings,' or Frank Herbert's sci-fi. Or 'The Wind in the Willows.' Or 'Charlotte's Web.'

The incentive for the outsider is to attack the system right up to the moment he is co-opted by it. The incentive for the insider -and this took some getting used to- is to allow yourself to be attacked, and then co-opt your most ferocious attackers, and their best ideas. The effect on the system as a whole is to make it more stable, because everyone winds up working on its behalf.

Small minds just like light winds can never create giant waves.

When the wind stops, kite falls but bird flies; because bird did not borrow the wind when rising!

The dust cannot fight against the wind; the wind cannot fight against the mountain. Everything and everyone has a battle to lose!

Big rocks are envy of little sands because little sands can travel with the winds. Every littleness has its own big advantages!

Stay calm inside! You will then see that outside storms of life, even the most terrible ones, will turn into soft winds.

To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.

Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings out a little, as if by exposing them to a vigorous wind.

But remember, child, we may all have our own story and destiny, and sometimes our seemingly bad fortune, but we're all part of a greater story too. One that transcends the soil, the wind, time even our own tears. Greater stories will have their way.

As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything.

Follow your heart wherever it takes you. Nobody knows where the wind blows. No one can say.

Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.

It's such a huge playing field, especially with the wind and shifting tides and only three women out. It's almost like you are fending for yourself out there.

Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America's political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind.

The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.

Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.

This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind.