Neither the gifts nor the blows of fortune equal those of…

A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.

— William Shakespeare

“Equal in law is not equal in nature.”

— Greg Bear

Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.

— Jeremy Collier

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

— Thomas Aquinas

Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed…

— Fay Weldon

I would always find a way to blow the deal and I'm not sure why. I think there was part of me that wasn't…

— Oscar Isaac

One of the wonderful things about Portlandia - and I'm not just blowing smoke, although I can blow smoke, but I'm not - is…

— Scott Raab

The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by…

— Steven Pinker

Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.

— Isabel Allende

The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it…

— Gertrude Atherton

Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.

— D. H. Lawrence

If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will…

— Robert A. Heinlein

If he wants to blow his head off, let him. I don't give a damn about Jim Bakker.

— Jessica Hahn

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour…

— William Shakespeare

The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running.

— Joe Garagiola