Quotes about wind
F.T. McKinstry - Ascarion
Wolf Star shines on wintry highGazing northward by and by.Ice and snow on shorelines lieWind and spirits haunt the sky.
Jello Biafra -
I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.
Annie Dillard -
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
Chellie Pingree -
Incredibly, oil and gas companies don't have to pay certain environmental costs that amount to small change to them, while an offshore wind project start-up is faced with fees that could mean the difference between building a wind farm and packing up and going home.
Hugh Ross -
The potential in many environmental issues is that if you undertake corrective action without appropriate understanding of the problem, then you wind up doing more harm than good.
Jeff Bezos -
What we need to do is always lean into the future when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.
Ami Ayalon -
Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.
Norm MacDonald -
I watch political shows for a number of weeks in a row, and all I see are guys arguing with each other over issues I have no idea about. My brother, he loves war-torn places. My dad would always read the paper and tell me I should watch CNN, but I usually wind up watching 'Breaking Bad.'
Maggie Smith -
I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
Steve Maraboli -
You are the ocean everything else is just waves and wind.
Wrushank Sorte -
I will be fine as far as the wind will bring me the memories i have spent with you
Criss Jami - Healology
Trends are about as fickle as the direction of the wind as are the legacies of those who flow with them.
Robert Green Ingersoll -
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Frederick Douglass -
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Frances Beinecke -
Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.
Jimmy Iovine -
Dylan captured what was on a million minds and turned it into poetry. With 'Blowin' in the Wind' or 'The Times They Are A-Changin',' he set a whole new standard.
Freida Pinto -
In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it.
Ranbir Kapoor -
'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'
Amanda Harlech -
At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.
Mitt Romney -
Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.
Shania Twain -
Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
Alison Moyet -
I have always loved a hard-faced girl. I get that Alison Goldfrapp isn't easy, and I like her belligerence. She's deeply sexy and controlled, like a Strict Machine, and it seems to wind the b'jesus out of the women I know. On the outside, I watch and smile and will her on like a twisted silent maiden aunt in the dark corner.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Diana Nyad -
Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner.
Billy Connolly -
I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.
Anne Bronte -
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
Roy Bean -
And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.
Diane Lane -
All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?
John McGraw -
My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Bjork -
Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
Leo Buscaglia -
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
George Crumb -
In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
William James -
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Yogi Berra -
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
Jim Rohn -
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Padma Lakshmi -
You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.
Homaro Cantu -
From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work.
Sylvia Plath - The Collected Poems
Wind warns November’s done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, Web-winged and furious.
Kate Messner - The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.
A gust of wind rattles the window, and I look out. Leaves are whooshing all over the place, flying past horizontally as if they have engines of their own.
Yevgeny Zamyatin - We
But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. ("The North")
Mehmet Murat ildan -
You like the wind? There is no wind? Start running! Create your own wind!
Deborah Levy - Hot Milk
Afterwards, I will have to tie the trees to bamboo poles so the wind will not determine their shape. A tree cannot be given form by the vagaries of the wind.
Debalina Haldar - Wrinkles in Memory
A strong wind was blowing and it felt really very cold and seemed so unfamiliar and bizarre. But the trees remembered me. They bowed gently in the breeze…and called me nearer, welcoming me.
Kate Mullane Robertson -
I stroke the bleached bones of ancient trees felled long-ago by industry or cold desperation and wonder of another almost summer when two fell asleep beneath her arms, curling into each other like wind-swept branches on the edge of tomorrow ...
Grigoris Deoudis -
People usually seek to join a religious system in order to gain the eternal bliss and freedom of the soul. But belonging somewhere; anywhere is not freedom. Free is the wind. You need to become the wind, not wanting to know how and why, but only to experience this quality of freedom that leads to the original “religion”. There the soul is finally ONE and aligned with anything.
John Heywood -
An ill wind that bloweth no man good - The blower of which blast is she.
Bible -
Who walketh upon the wings of the wind.
William Shakespeare -
Blow wind and crack your cheeks. Rage! Blow!
Lord Alfred Tennyson -
Sweet and low sweet and low Wind of the western sea Low low breathe and blow Wind of the western sea!
Samuel Butler -
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
Homer -
Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
Jimmy Dean -
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Augustus Hare -
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
Johannes Brahms -
Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
Kara Walker -
Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
Evel Knievel -
I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.
Ty Dolla Sign -
The softest thing I've ever heard are the wind chimes in my backyard. They are soft and cool and mellow.
Anthony T Hincks -
Death can ride the wind,and he can also walk the streets,looking for those listed,or those he accidently meets.A touch or a whisper,the smell of his breath,it's what lets us know,he beckons that we're next.And hide he doth find,in a closet or a chest,because our days were numbered,'cause death doesn't jest.
Jim Rohn -
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Jay Woodman -
be the calm eye of the storm where nothing phases you, focus on your centre to remain balanced, let your life flow like a stream of wind
Ryōkan -
The plants and flowersI raised about my hutI now surrenderTo the willOf the wind
Cathy Ostlere - Karma
I listen to the sound of India's voices for the last time . Laughter ripples like water . A prayer is a single note held long . There is so much life here . And too much death.I feel a soft brezze caress my face and I look up. An orange ribbon is floating through the air . In India , it's easy to see the wind .
Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Why do you chase the wind?
Veronica Roth - Allegiant
He wraps his arms around me and holds me tight for a few seconds. Hisbreaths tickle my ear, and I close my eyes, letting myself finally relax. Hesmells like wind and sweat and soap, like Tobias and like safety.
Pope Benedict XVI -
Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
Andrew Galasetti - These Colors Don't Run
Samuel finally understood the sound of the wind after all these years: The winds were a chorus of the prairie’s ever-present heartaches.
Jay Woodman -
just find your way, like a river settling into its bed, and the sigh of the wind over a lake, light but restful... content with the joy in the arc of an arm throwing a ball for a dog to fetch
Jay Woodman -
.... just find your way, like a river settling into its bed, and the sigh of the wind over a lake, light but restful... content with the joy in the arc of an arm throwing a ball for a dog to fetch, the ease of the grassy slope stretching away, birds in the trees singing sweet high notes, flowers growing close in the ditch.
Christine Feehan - Turbulent Sea
Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all fused together. Joley seemed as wild and turbulent s the sea, yet beneath her fiery passion, at the very core of her, she was as forceful and strong and as constant as the deepest ocean currents. Ilya seemed as calm as a windless sea, yet beneath the surface smoldered a volcano of such explosive magnitude, his power could easily sweep everything from his path. Together they compl
Mike Bond - Killing Maine
Wind blew snow crystals back and forth between the graves. The ancient pines creaked overhead.
Fennel Hudson - A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
You have to feel the bite of the wind to appreciate the warmth of a winter coat.
Alexander Pushkin -
I've lived to see my longings die"I've lived to se my longings die:My dreams and I have grown apart;Now only sorrow haunts my eye,The wages of a bitter heart.Beneath the storms of hostile fate,My flowery wreath has faded fast;I live alone and sadly waitTo see when death will come at last.Just so, when the winds in winter moanAnd snow descends in frigid flakes,Upon a naked branch, alone,The final leaf of summer shakes!
Robert Michael Pyle - Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place
Along with rising and falling water, winter is the province of wind. When the sea-breath and mountain-roar bend the hemlocks of these hills, the birds hang on as best they can.
A.P. Sweet - but dreaming
I would give my lungs to the fish so that they may rise out of the water and feel the wind.
John Geddes -
fingers of wind combed the lake into ridges—icy palm prints glistened wherever it rested
Terry Pratchett - A Hat Full of Sky
Here you are. Would you like some pickles?”“Pickles gives me the wind something awful.”“In that case—”“Oh, I wasn’t saying no,” Mistress Weatherwax said, taking two large pickled cucumbers.
Kristen Henderson -
Once lively peonies nowwind-weary, and ragged at the edges, hang their heavy crowns; rain on their backs,one final act, beforedetaching from the stemand falling down.
Elizabeth Jane Weston -
The sky's inclemency stirs up the angry winds;the watery clouds are soaking with ceaseless rain.The turbulent Vltava, swollen with rainy waves,Bursting, impetuous, breaks through its river banks.
Heenashree Khandelwal -
Gods must be crazyFlowers must be daisyClouds must be hazyWinds must be lazyWhat else it could be…My heart must be in love lately…
H.P. Lovecraft -
The daemon wind died down, and the bloated, fungoid moon sank reddeningly in the west.
Elyne Mitchell - Silver Brumby's Daughter
Just then, down through the last glimmer of twilight, stepping high and free, like a cloud, a moth, a ghost in the shape of a horse — came the Silver Stallion. Wild, beautiful, and free as the wind he came, from one kingdom to another, Thowra
Lorin Morgan-Richards -
Autumn colors remind us we are all one dancing in the wind.
Akshay Vasu -
They were the prisoners hidden in different cages, and yet they saw each other every day. He named her fire and she named him the wind, the day they both touched and embraced each other they burnt down everything that stood in their way.
Patrick Rothfuss - The Wise Man's Fear
Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself
Christina Rossetti -
And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying
Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet
What is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse
So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.
Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca
The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood. And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea.
Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
Rue - An Average Curse
Winter teetered on the verge of succumbing to the returning sun, but today the breeze still preferred the touch of snowflakes
Santosh Avvannavar -
~Seasons of Life~When the sunburn I blind,When the sky showers I cover,When the wind blows I blanket,When the death calls I undergo,When would I experience the nature?
Gary Paulsen - Caught by the Sea
...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath...
Anna Jae -
There’s always books. And the wind through trees.
Jonathan Campbell -
When the north wind blew across the tar ponds, voices were carried away.
John Geddes - A Familiar Rain
...my heart rides the wind and my thoughts sail away - to a land below the horizon where I know you hide from me...
Richard L. Ratliff -
In the wind that ruffles through the treesI can find thoughts of you whispering to me
Dorothy Hartley -
If everything I possessed, vanished, suddenly,I'd be sorry.But I value things unpossessed.The wind, and trees, and sky and kind thoughts, much more.