Wind Quotes
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I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out.
Joe Cronin
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Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.
Jonathan Swift
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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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God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.
George Peele
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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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I guess it's not my year right now. The wind changed the game a lot and, you know, there really was a big wind today but, you know, both of us were on the court.
Anastasia Myskina
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If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.
Rebecca Pidgeon
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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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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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I used to hold a fiery wind and I tried to determine the direction where poetry would fly.
Alda Merini
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Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the rain and the smell of the wind.
Haruki Murakami
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Our touchstones of slavery are 'Song of the South,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'The Birth of a Nation.' It's hard to separate the cinematic quality from the underlying themes. I appreciate the films, but the message was repugnant.
John Ridley
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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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A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.
W. S. Gilbert
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What is WIND and what is BONE have never been conclusively determined by the generations of Chinese critics, but what is certain, according to Liu Hsieh, is that the perfect combination or balance of WIND and BONE, the metaphor for the ideal poem, is a bird.
Eliot Weinberger
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O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
Dante Alighieri
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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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Neighbors are far better acoustic analyzers for determining the quality of their life versus any acoustic instrument left unattended by an expert.
Stephen Ambrose
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The 2012 superstorm known as Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc beyond the Eastern Seaboard and reached Northeast Ohio as well, with heavy rain, wind gusts of nearly 70 miles per hour and waves on Lake Erie reaching 15 to 18 feet.
Marcia Fudge
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The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
Jim Elliot
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The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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Dylan captured what was on a million minds and turned it into poetry. With 'Blowin' in the Wind' or 'The Times They Are A-Changin',' he set a whole new standard.
Jimmy Iovine
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If you have wind it becomes more difficult than you think.
Tiger Woods
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I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of 'The Wind in the Willows,' which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.
John le Carre