Wind Quotes
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Britain has a lot of wind. It's our wind. We don't have to import it.
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I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.
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Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.
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Autumn rain, autumn wind, they make one die of sorrow.
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Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street...by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.
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You women are all the same, if bed's all right, You think everything else can go to the wind. But if there's any infringement of your bed-rights, Then fair is foul and all hell's let loose.
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In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.
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Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails.
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I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.
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The contrivances which are necessary to counteract the wind effects can only be understood by actual practice in the wind.
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There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind.
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I've been told that I have a lot of energy. The secret is that I use renewable resources. Some days I'm solar powered. Some days I'm wind powered. And some people in this room might think I'm hybrid gas-powered. You'll just have to guess which it is today.
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The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.
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So loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven, Visit her face' too roughly.
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Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.
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A Murmur in the Trees - to note - Not loud enough - for Wind - A Star - not far enough to seek - Nor near enough - to find
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The sun flickers. Like a flame hit by a sudden gust of wind. Like the lights of a bomb shelter during an air raid. Even the sun flickers. That’s what she kept telling herself. A gust, a bomb, a small explosion. Then the disruption passed—everything calm again. Everything returning to normalcy. Except that she felt herself trembling. Except she knew that this was the beginning. It was her body that had flickered.
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The narrow hallway was lined with framed photographs while the far end was dominated by a faux movie poster for Gone with the Wind starring Ronald Reagan sweeping Margaret Thatcher off her feet while a mushroom cloud bloomed behind them. She promised to follow him to the end of the world. He promised to organise it.
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If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.
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Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.
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the mighty main sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.
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Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and the wisdom which, needing no light, enlightens minds which are in darkness, that wisdom by which the whole world, even to the leaves of trees drifting in the wind, is governed?
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When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
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'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined.
