Go Against The Wind Quotes

#1. Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit. (A wise man does not urinate against the wind.) Roman proverb

L. Michael Hall

#2. Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish'd yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set- In stepping stairs that reach to God! Here we are free as sea or wind, For here are set Time's snowy tents In everlasting battlements Against the march of Saxon mind.

Joaquin Miller

#3. I go outside, bundled against the wind from the east. I wander the streets of my past, waiting for one more dawn.

Jason Heller

#4. When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ...

Henry Ford

#5. I know that I have life only insofar as I have love. I have no love except it come from Thee. Help me, please, to carry this candle against the wind.

Wendell Berry

#6. Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace.

Etheridge Knight

#7. That's a good way to live, go against the wind.

Bob Seger

#8. The first impression scares the shit out of me, but it's breathtaking, too, like when you push off a cliff and feel the wind against your face. At that point, you're not thinking of anything but free fall.

Ann Aguirre

#9. Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.

Frank Harris

#10. President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.

Ken Follett

#11. Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark green sounds. The grove, suddenly still, is a web of fronds and branches.

Octavio Paz

#12. Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.

Soren Kierkegaard

#13. The dust cannot fight against the wind; the wind cannot fight against the mountain. Everything and everyone has a battle to lose!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl the sail. The party that tore itself apart over Vietnam in the 1960s cannot afford to tear itself apart today over budget cuts in basic social programs.

Edward Kennedy

#15. Now young faces grow sad and old and hearts of fire grow cold
We swore blood brothers against the wind
I'm ready to grow young again

Bruce Springsteen

#16. I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason.

Antonio Munoz Molina

#17. You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.

William Blake

#18. There is something about the wind ... even though it can't be seen it brushes against our soul and we know it is there even during the silence.

Shannon L. Alder