Wind Quotes
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When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .
George Eliot
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Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape.
Tim Yeo
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Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.
William Butler Yeats
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My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.
Charles Dickens
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And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are suffering with rain, strong wind. The fear is not gone from us. It is very, very hard.
Anuradha Koirala
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Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.
William Shakespeare
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You're all just pissin' in the wind,You don't know it but you are.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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Meteorite hunting is not for wimps. The best places to look are also the coldest and windiest. You need very old ice, and you need wind, lots of it, strong and unrelenting. Antarctica fits the bill.
Mary Roach
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As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise.
Gautama Buddha
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Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense. He cannot even be nourished by Art. Like Ephraim, he feeds upon the East wind, which has no boundaries.
Vance Palmer
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We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Dolly Parton
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“Let us in, let us in,' shrieked the wind. 'We're very, very hungry.
Cressida Cowell
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I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite.
Tommy Cooper
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People are clocks who think they wind themselves.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I don't like changing with the wind; I like sticking to my own self.
Nicole Kidman
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When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.
Ray Bradbury
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Is not thy home among the flowers?
William Cullen Bryant
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Jonathan Swift
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... the expression on her face, which was swept by the excitement of what she saw ... was as luminous and tremulous under it as water in sunlight when it is ruffled by a gust of wind.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.
Ernest Gaines
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Though thou wert scattered to the wind, Yet is there plenty of the kind.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The deer to the wholesome wold; And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid, As it was in the days of old.
Rudyard Kipling