Wind Quotes

The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper.

When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.

Well, you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind. You don't pull on the mask of old Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with Jim.

I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.

The wind cannot overturn a mountain. Temptation cannot touch the man Who is awake, strong and humble, Who masters hiself and minds the law.

And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.

You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails.

People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar.

There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.

You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses.

The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!

A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree.

Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.

The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.

The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.

Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?

Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind.

I'm older now but still running against the wind

How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?

A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails of his thin coat flapping behind him.

I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!

In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.

You must in your music be wavering like the wind; sometimes wanton, sometimes drooping, sometimes grave and staid, otherwhile effeminate; and the more variety you show, the better shall you please.

How many souls have been blown into hell with the wind of popular applause?

What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by a firm, secure anchor that keeps holding despite turbulent winds and churning tides.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.

I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul Where I end up, well, I think only God really knows.

Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good-night.

Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind.

My lips are chapped from the winds of change.

Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is.

Each string of a wind harp responds with a different note to the same breeze. What activity makes you personally resonate most strongly, most deeply?

Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.

Anchorman' is my favorite movie of all time and Ron Burgundy is one of my favorite characters of all time. It's my 'Gone With the Wind.

Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time.

The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy.

The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.

Just as the winds whip up the sea, so does anger stir confusion in the mind.

One small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.

A square egg in a dish of lentils won't make a marrow bend with the wind, nor will it make rhubarb grow up the milkmaid's leg.

Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction.

It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobody is going to touch: A cloister, a silence Closing around a blossom of fire. When I stand upright in the wind, My bones turn to dark emeralds.

If you carry the weather with you, then character is determined by the prevailing wind

To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.