Contrary Winds Quotes

#1. When we long for a live without difficulties, remind us that diamonds are made under pressure and oaks grow strong in contrary winds.

Peter Marshall

#2. When we long for life without difficulty,
remind us that oaks grow strong under contrary winds
and diamonds are made under pressure.

Peter Marshall

#3. (Wine is) the nurse of old age.

Galen

#4. The breeding ground of fear is procrastination and inaction. We overcome them not by preparation, but by taking action.

Debasish Mridha

#5. This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs.

Haile Gebrselassie

#6. Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

Ivo Andric

#7. Well, you're not exactly Superman, but you're awfully available.

Vera-Ellen

#8. Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

Irrfan Khan

#9. We humans are the gods of this planet. And we also have created Superior Gods than us, to have a sense of security.

Abhijit Naskar

#10. To a crazy ship, all winds are contrary.

George Herbert

#11. Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people.

James Altucher

#12. It has been a long road. From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax.

Tenzing Norgay

#13. Tranquillity consisteth in a steadiness of the mind; and how can that vessel that is beaten upon by contrary waves and winds, and tottereth to either part, be said to keep a steady course? Resolution is the only mother of security.

Joseph Hall

#14. We've already eaten,' Fox said. 'Nice, was

Ian Rankin

#15. He told her, I don't remember any other lover but you.
I don't believe you.
I don't. I know the facts of other lovers, but all the real, visceral memory, or any emotion has burned away. Those lovers happened to someone else, the man I was before I met you.

Thea Harrison

#16. Patriotism which has the quality of intoxication is a danger not only to its native land but to the world, and "My country never wrong" is an even more dangerous maxim than "My country, right or wrong."

Bertrand Russell