Wind Quotes - page 12

Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from beneath my feet. It chills my spirits like a rainy day, and all I can do is draw the curtains and cry into my pillow. (Margaret George)
We came in the wind of the carnival. A wind of change, or promises. The merry wind, the magical wind, making March hares of everyone, tumbling blossoms and coat-tails and hats; rushing towards summer in a frenzy of exuberance. View quote
Joanne Harris
The wind always brings us back to the same wall. View quote
Joanne Harris
I like the wind because you can't buy it. View quote
Giovanni Agnelli
Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford. View quote
George Matthew Adams
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path. View quote
Bodhidharma
Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum. View quote
Jack Kemp
Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day. View quote
Janet Frame
And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax policy, uncertainty over the regulatory policy. View quote
John Kasich
Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind. (Mark Z. Danielewski)
I think that's what finally stopped me. I slid right to the edge. My legs were hanging over. And I could feel it too. I don't know how. There was no wind, no sound, no change of temperature. There was just this terrible emptiness reaching up for me. View quote
Mark Z. Danielewski
Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless. View quote
Mahmoud Darwich
A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort. View quote
Meriwether Lewis
The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been. View quote
Meriwether Lewis
Your breath upon the wind shall surely lodge within some breast. Ask not whose breast it is. See only that the breath itself be pure. View quote
Mikha'il Na'ima
I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me. The sea. View quote
Gary Paulsen
Sitting over words Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing Not far Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark The echo of everything that has ever Been spoken Still spinning its one syllable Between the earth and silence. View quote
W.S. Merwin
The wind is the moon's imagination wandering. View quote
Saul Williams
A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find. View quote
James Stephens
i am the wind. one day, i will fly free. (Rumiko Takahashi)
At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind. View quote
Amanda Harlech
The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon... it sounds romantic, but it's true - the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine - a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special. View quote
Antoine Predock
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. View quote
Antony Hewish
Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it. View quote
Adam Clarke