Wind Quotes

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze. (Livy)
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. View quote
Seneca
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. View quote
Henry Ford
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. View quote
William Arthur Ward
Absence extinguishes the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind. View quote
Norman Mailer
Your love is like the wind... you cant see it, but you can feel it... View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall. View quote
Ani DiFranco
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. (Shania Twain)
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. View quote
John Ruskin
I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available. View quote
Vanessa L. Williams
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. View quote
Matthew Arnold
A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long. View quote
E. E. Cummings
What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door? View quote
Thomas Malory
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. View quote
George Orwell
... You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. View quote
Bob Dylan
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. View quote
John Steinbeck
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face. View quote
Pablo Picasso
The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind. View quote
Frank Herbert
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. View quote
Jimmy Dean