The Wind Quotes

You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler

And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.

One does not argue about The Wind in the Willows.

As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.

The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time.

The magic begins in you. Feel your own energy, and realize similar energy exists within the Earth, stones, plants, water, wind, fire, colores, and animals.

Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are.

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.

What should we speak of When we are old as you? when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December? how, In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse The freezing hours away?

I went to my doctor and asked for something for persistent wind. He gave me a kite.

I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.

Pentecost came with the sound of a mighty rushing wind, a violent blast from heaven! Heaven has not exhausted its blasts, but our danger is we are getting frightened of them.

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

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

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

Late at night when the wind is still I'll come flying through your door, And you'll know what love is for. I am a bluebird, I'm a bluebird...

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

I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead. They said all I was good for was playing Indians.

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.

To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

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

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

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

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

President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind?

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

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

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

Mike, we are a green energy company, but the green stands for money.

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

The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being. Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing.

You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.

No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

In my time it was different. When I knew the wind was strong, I attacked myself to make the race as hard as possible.

Magic, indeed, is all around us, in stones, flowers, stars, the dawn wind and the sunset cloud; all we need is the ability to see and understand.

To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.

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

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

Truth ... Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment.

But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.

Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.

Where, twisted round the barren oak, The summer vine in beauty clung, And summer winds the stillness broke, The crystal icicle is hung.