Wind Quotes - page 35

Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound.) (Ilana Mercer)
Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind. View quote
Hermann von Helmholtz
I couldn't breathe. Couldn't blink. Couldn't hear a thing, not them talking or the wind or the truck driving off or bees. Couldn't scream out to Will to help me or to anyone else, all of them talking and going on as though I wasn't even there. And that was when I realized: This is what it's like to be dead. No clouds or lights or bright tunnel, not even darkness: just the world turning and going on without you and you'll never be part of it again. View quote
Elizabeth Hand
The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie - a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days - but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20. View quote
Eric Carle
In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play. View quote
Jerome Lawrence
I will not let you in. I face towards the wind. I change into the Mule. View quote
Kate Bush
Oh and the waves are going out Oh and the waves are coming in Out of the corner of my eye I think I see you standing outside But it's just your shirt Hanging on the washing line Waving it's arm as the wind blows by And it looks so alive Nice and white Just like it's climbed right out of my washing machine... View quote
Kate Bush
See those trees Bend in the wind I feel they've got a lot more sense than me You see I try to resist... View quote
Kate Bush
Watching storms Start to form Over America. Can't do anything. Just watch them swing With the wind Out to sea. View quote
Kate Bush
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. (Jim Rohn)
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them? View quote
Mervyn Peake
Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid. View quote
Homer
As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. So one generation of men will grow while another dies. View quote
Homer
Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation. View quote
Michael Parenti
How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life. View quote
James Joyce
The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night... View quote
William Shakespeare
I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw. View quote
William Shakespeare
Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed. (William Shakespeare)
The song of the wind singer will set you free. View quote
William Nicholson
"I wish there were no more exams ever," said Kestrel. "I wish nothing bad happens to Kess," said Bowman. "I wish my darling children to be safe and happy for ever," said their mother. She always wished like that when she was worried. "I wish the wind singer would sing again," said their father. View quote
William Nicholson
I will mount a long wind some day and break the heavy waves, And set my cloudy sail straight and bridge the deep, deep sea. View quote
Li Bai
My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm. View quote
John McGraw