The Wind Quotes

Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true.

Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty.

Boasts are wind and deeds are hard.

Don't get the idea that I've turned green. My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money.

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near.

Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their gray coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on their proud necks.

The purity of youth will usher in the Divine Wind.

They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.

No wind favors he who has no destined port.

A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.

Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.

If the vessel of our soul is still tossed with winds and storms, let us awake the Lord, who reposes in it, and He will quickly calm the sea.

May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do.

I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change is nurtured even in stone by wind, by water, through time.

We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain Shrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.

I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.

For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.

A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.

They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.

I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night.

Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel.

Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.

No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

It takes all sorts (to make a world

Except wind stands as it never stood It is an ill wind turns none to good.

I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go.

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie.

Your husband is lazy if when he leaves the house, he finds out which way the wind is blowing and goes that direction.

Muirfield without a wind is like a lady undressed. No challenge.

I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite.

I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons.

I didn't know what was going on at the start in the swirling wind. The flags were all pointing in different directions and I thought the Irish had starched them just to fool us.

They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal.

How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind!

I wouldn't be against them (large wind turbines) if they actually worked.

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.

Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing, under the sky's gray arch. Smiling, I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing It is the wind of March.

If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or green on the red side or violet on the yellow side, it would give us the same impression as a north wind coming from the southwest.

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous.

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.