The hushed winds their Sabbath keep.

Ye winds ye unseen currents of the air, Softly ye played a few brief hours ago; Ye bore the murmuring bee; ye tossed the…

— William C. Bryant

They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.

— Anonymous

Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and…

— Mao Zedong

The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but…

— Jim Rohn

Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.

— John Ruskin

The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.

— Plutarch

A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour, Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within His dwelling; he has left his steers awhile,…

— William C. Bryant

“And sometimes,” she added, in slightly hushed tones, like she was letting me in on a secret, “if you don’t feel great on the…

— Morgan Matson

Hushed as midnight silence.

— John Dryden

“Hushed words carry harsh judgment.”

— Claire Ashby

Foemen at morn, but friends at eve Fame or country least their care: (What like a bullet can undeceive!) But now they lie low,…

— Anonymous

“The office containing these two men was of such hushed opulence that it seemed as though their words were borne to one another on…

— Donald E. Westlake

“Peace, he knows, can be shattered in a million variations: great visions of the end, a rain of ash, a disease on the wind,…

— Lauren Groff

“Oh my God,” I said in a hushed voice. You have to speak quietly when you’re in that kind of room.”

— Georgina Guthrie

“Cooper,” she said. “Cooper Jax.” As if saying his name would someone break the spell, vanquish the mirage she was still faintly hoping she…

— Donna Kauffman