Winding Quotes

132 Winding quotes by 125 unique authors

For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding… — Chief Joseph
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. — William Shakespeare
When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity. — Isabel Allende
On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died… — Stephen King
For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is… — Michael Ondaatje
Here in my heart, my happiness, my house. Here inside the lighted window is my love, my hope, my life. Peace is my companion on… — Abraham Lincoln
O my choice beauty You've gone But your love remains in my heart Your image in my eye O guide on my winding road I… — Unknown Author
Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals… — Karen White
I've been thinking about you constantly since I left, wondering why the journey I'm on seemed to have led through you. I know my journey's… — Nicholas Sparks
And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning. — Edith Pattou
He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight… — Cormac McCarthy
Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road.… — John Piper
What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against… — Theodore Roethke
a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that… — Vladimir Nabokov
Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the… — William Blake
There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian… — Vladimir Nabokov
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book… — Mem Fox
Tatiana had imagined her Alexander since she was a child, before she believed that someone like him was even possible. When she was a little… — Paullina Simons
It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they would wander to… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Turning away, I stared at the long road winding off ahead of me. I sighed. This trip might take awhile. "Then start walking, Rose," I… — Richelle Mead
To be a righteous woman during the winding up scenes on this earth, before the second coming of our Savior, is an especially noble calling...… — Spencer W. Kimball
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding… — Isaac Asimov
Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a violin lying ready… — Hermann Hesse
A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path… — Jane Smiley

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125 authors contributed a total of 132 Winding Quotes, led by these top contributors: