Wind Quotes

3336 quotes by 2143 authors

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind. — Samuel Butler
There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being… — Albert Camus
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let… — Dale Carnegie
I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered… — Helena Bonham Carter
The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be… — Giacomo Casanova
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. — Dante Alighieri
I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion. — Nick Cave
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction. — Chanakya
The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed… — Chanakya
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of… — Kate Chopin
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. — Winston Churchill
I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather… — Grover Cleveland
I'm not an elected official who puts a finger in the wind to see what the majority thinks; I represent women, whether they're popular or… — Gloria Allred
One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite falls to the ground. Another… — David O. McKay
If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends. — George Carlin
In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Only in winter can you tell which trees are truly green. Only when the winds of adversity blow can you tell whether an individual or… — John F. Kennedy
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. — William Shakespeare
In every grave on earth's green sward is a tiny seed of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ, and that seed cannot perish. It will… — David McMurtrie Gregg

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