The Wind Quotes

Under his spurning feet, the road Like an arrowly alpine river flowed And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.

England, so long mistress of the sea, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear And reign the sovereign of the conquered air.

Be still: There is no longer any need of comment. It was a lucky wind That blew away his halo with his cares, A lucky sea that drowned his reputation.

Trying to have wisdom without application is like trying to catch the winds without raising the sails!

The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the ash pours out moans of thrilling anguish.

If you have wind it becomes more difficult than you think.

The hard wind we get around here on the eastern slopes of the Rockies is called a Chinook. It's a katabatic wind and comes from mountains to the west of us and the mountains to the south.

The Ironman World Championship is the hardest race I've competed in. Not only do the elements (heat, wind, humidity) make it grueling, but the quality of the field makes it a true test.

I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand

The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction

It is a blessing. When I first got wind of [Chris Rivers] taking the rap thing serious and wanting to make a career out of it.

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Rich people making their houses bigger in order to make their lives happier wind up hurting their own marriages. There's a deep irony here. Do the couples perceive that irony?

It is fundamentally crazy to build wind farms out at sea. But it works!

Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit.

I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.

The laws of supply and demand drive up the price, inevitably, over time. But solar and wind are abundant and renewable resources.

The more we deploy the technologies to capture wind and solar power, the cheaper those technologies become.

I think sometimes older people wind up being a little childlike. They've done their time, now they get to do what they want.

Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive.

...expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind.

The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.

It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow.

The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks And far beyond the discords of the wind.

In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual.

Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost.

The winter is made and you have to bear it, The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind, For all the thoughts of summer that go with it In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags.

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The snow, the wind, the sun and the sounds of nature, can all be reminders to you that you're an integral part of the natural world.

To by held above the earth and be brushed by the wind," she said,"it's like your heart has been kissed by beauty.

My soul's a little grief, grappling your chest, To climb your throat on sobs; easily chased On other sighs and wiped by fresher winds.

Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but unerring sense for what will some day be born of it.

Winds and waters keepA hush more dead than any sleep.

Bring me an axe and spade, Bring me a winding-sheet; When I my grave have made Let winds and tempests beat: Then down I'll lie as cold as clay. True love doth pass away!

I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!

Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.

All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.

Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into peace, That my old care may cease.

If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf

While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy.

What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind.

When we have blamed the wind we can blame love.

Is not thy home among the flowers?

The hushed winds their Sabbath keep.

A melancholy sound is in the air, A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night.

For there is a wind or a ghost of wind in all books echoing the life there, a high wind that fills the tubes of the ear until we think we hear a wind, actual.

By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast - a cold wind.

I don't believe that Citizen Kane or Gone With the Wind, or any damn picture that you can name, would be better off in 3D. I think it's a gimmick. I find 3D distracting.

Books wind into the heart.