Wind Quotes
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The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.
Og Mandino
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The FCC's job is not to put a finger in the wind and decide which way the winds are blowing; it's to look at the facts and make a sober judgment based on what the law is.
Ajit Pai
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I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close.
Charles Dickens
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The colours of the glass throw blue and green onto her wet cheeks. The sea wind picks up her hair violet electrics snap and sparkle between the strands.
Catherynne M. Valente
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There's the wind on the heath, brother; if I could only feel that, I would gladly live for ever.
George Borrow
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If you have wind it becomes more difficult than you think.
Tiger Woods
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The hushed winds their Sabbath keep.
William Cullen Bryant
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When there's an idiot driving crazily in front of you, that can wind the best of you up.
Clive Owen
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If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: 'That's where I wanted to go today!
A. A. Milne
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Martial arts is a life journey. One of the things my teacher taught me a long time ago was that everyone's path to the mastery of a certain system is different. Some people's path is a very direct route, where others might wind back and forth if you are injured or something.
Ryan Potter
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There had been rain but it had stopped, and the light from a luminously clouded sky was pewter-bright, and puddles on the road were shivering in the wind, and the rooks above the trees in St Anne's Park were being tossed about the air like scraps of charred paper.
John Banville
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Hear the wind and you will know the wind. Wind blows, and the generations are its leaves. There was no higher praise than what was said of Confucius: He knows where the wind comes from.
Eliot Weinberger
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Sometimes when the wind is blowing in my hair, I cry because its coolness is too beautiful.
Bob Kaufman
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Books wind into the heart.
William Hazlitt
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You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity. We're the language that tries to say it. You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.
Rumi
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We are surrounded by braggarts whose loud mouths propel their thin talent as far as the wind carries.
Anna Maxted
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And she said 'Losing love is like a window in your heart, Everybody sees you're blown apart, Everybody feels the wind blow.'
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.
Gautama Buddha
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When we have blamed the wind we can blame love.
William Butler Yeats
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There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound.
Seneca the Younger
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One of the messages I presented to the coal industry was, "If you want to have major transmission built, start encouraging wind development." That's because the cultural value and acceptance of wind energy provides an opportunity to build transmission lines that are not as desirable with traditional forms of generation.
Kevin Cramer
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You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you're battling with everything you have. That's the real fun of the game.
Dan Dierdorf
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What we accepted as great art - whether the book, the script, the painting, the symphony - is that which could be saved and savored. But the performances of the athletic artists who ran and jumped and wrestled were gone with the wind.
Frank Deford
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Chicago at the time owned a lake the size of a sea, several advertising firms, at least six tribes of marauding criminals, healthy herds of sailors grazing free, the first Ferris wheel in all the world, and more wind than it could care for.
Catherynne M. Valente