Winds Quotes

601 quotes by 460 authors

We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out… — Learned Hand
The weather behaved itself. In the spring, the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang. In… — T.H. White
Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its… — James Russell Lowell
Books entered my house under cover of night, from the four winds, smuggled in by woodland creatures, and then they never left. Books collected on… — Luc Sante
The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but the… — Jim Rohn
Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places. — Unknown Author
But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean liner that sails across the ocean from… — Colin Powell
...I will praise the English climate till I dieâ€”even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that he could tell… — Christopher Hitchens
If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for a year or… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
God, who winds up our sundials ... — Georg C. Lichtenberg
You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of… — Abraham Lincoln
Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied… — Samuel Johnson
All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of… — Herman Melville
We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the… — Richard Le Gallienne
I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its… — Wallace Stevens
This is war: Boys flung into a breach Like shoveled earth; And old men, Broken, Driving rapidly before crowds of people In a glitter of… — Amy Lowell
The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I never did see… — Herman Wouk
Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip. — Bill Griffith

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