The Wind Quotes
He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.
The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.
As he did so, a wind rose up around him, around the man who had been called lord, Dragon Reborn, king, killer, lover and friend.
Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.
When one has faith that the spring thaw will arrive, the winter winds seem to lose some of their punch.
Avoiding the appearance of queenly behavior is politically wise. But it does American culture no favors if a first lady tries so hard to be average that she winds up looking common.
People ask if I can get it up in the morning. I tell them are you kidding I'm envious of a stiff wind.
May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven.
Blame is especially useful in situations in which there is no apparent villain-those moments that prove, despite our advancement of learning, how susceptible we are to high winds and wet roads.
You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet their finger and hold it in the wind.
They will come, not to paint the bay and the sea and the boots and the moors, but the warmth of the sun and the colour of the wind. A whole new concept. Such stimulation. Such vitality.
I shall desire and I shall find The best of my desires; The autumn road, the mellow wind That soothes the darkening shires. And laughter, and inn-fires.
He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.
I like the idea of being a novelist. I picture myself on the coast, the wind in my hair, horses galloping around me as I sit at my typewriter in the middle of a field.
If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.
The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.
With Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, it was better to be friends and make them smile rather than wind them up.
The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind.
He’s stronger than this. He’s always been stronger… (Vane) Even the mightiest oak can be felled by a whisper of a wind if it comes on the heels of a powerful enough storm. (Carson)
All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.
It is very important not to become hard. The artist must always have one skin too few in comparison to other people, so you feel the slightest wind.
Something is happening. I sense a change in the wind…a mutual understanding of each other. I haven’t felt this way in forever.
Is there a home, a home for me? Where the people stay until eternity? Is there a road that winds up, underneath the big green tree? Is there a home, a home for me?
There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.
Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?
Do I know what people say? Sure. I shrug it off. what else can you do? Stop people from talking? You might as well try to stop the wind from blowing.
That Arthur has not always existed seems odd to me. Like the wind on the moors and the wild winter stars, surely he has always lived . . . and always will.
When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.
As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own.
The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by
When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.
How did Rue end up on that stage with nothing but the wind offering to take her place?
Fish from all over the world, from deep in the sea, wind up in countries from Germany to Japan. That is just crazy.
I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow, ice, sleet, wind, the dark night of the soul: what else were you supposed to do?
Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put them down, and simply write down what they do, say, or think.
