Top 99 Quotes About Winds
#1. Even in the middle of a hurricane, the bottom of the sea is calm. As the storm rages and the winds howl, the deep waters sway in gentle rhythm, a light movement of fish and plant life. Below there is no storm.
Wayne Muller
#2. My will had gone and I feared to be alone, lest the winds of circumstance, or power, or lust, blow my empty soul away.
T.E. Lawrence
#3. Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
Herman Wouk
#4. The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.
John Muir
#5. Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.
Lord Byron
#6. I am like them-I want life. I want to go back to Manchuria, to find my house and my go table. I will return to the Square of a Thousand Winds and wait for my Stranger. I know he will come ... one afternoon ... as he did that first time.
Shan Sa
#8. Whoever promotes Palestine today promotes the rise of Hamas. It's as inevitable as storms after strong winds.
Barry Shaw
#9. The drive to Santa Fe on I-25 is midly zen. There are public road signs that say "Gusty Winds May Exist". This seems more like lazy philosophy than travel advice.
Chuck Klosterman
#10. One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
#11. Whether interpreting the Constitution or filling in the blanks of a law or a regulation, every word of the court's opinion can widen or narrow our rights as Americans and either protect us or leave us more vulnerable to any winds that blow.
Herb Kohl
#12. I did not want to cry any more. Instead I felt hollow, empty, as if all the meaning had been sucked out of me and I was drifting, light as a skeleton leaf, at the mercy of the four winds. I was drained of tears.
Juliet Marillier
#13. In a climate changed world, it is a smart person who thins their trees so that the abnormally high winds can pass through them without damage.
Steven Magee
#14. When a single mom goes out on a date with somebody new. It always winds up feeling more like a job interview.
Brad Paisley
#15. Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#16. Don't be crushed under the oncoming tide of adversity that moves in to test your faith. Make sure that your foundation is built on the solid rock of Jesus Christ. Be ready for the storms of life and move forward in a confidence that cannot be shaken by the strong winds of hardship.
Calvin W. Allison
#17. That which a person works hardest on, he winds up having. That's one of the fundamentals of this universe.
That to which he devotes energy, he finally has.
L. Ron Hubbard
#18. A life without goals is like flotsam that is governed by the tides and winds of fate.
Steven Redhead
#19. While the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress.
Barack Obama
#20. Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it, and it will die. But leave it to thrive in the soil, untouched, and it will weather both gods and winds. It is born with the soil, and it will live so long as the soil shall live.
Etgar Keret
#21. Trees are swayed by winds, men by words.
Joan Aiken
#22. Therefore, let the moon shine on thee in thy solitary walk; And let the misty-mountain winds be free to blow against thee.
William Wordsworth
#23. Open yourself to an encounter with heaven, be as a little child. Release your desire to the winds of the universe. Trust your angels to catch your wish and bring it to you in a delightfully surprising way. - Doreen Virtue
Doreen Virtue
#24. When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs of June her multiple OF golden chalices to humming birds And silken-wing'd insects of the sky.
William C. Bryant
#25. Man is whole when he is in tune with the winds, the stars, and the hills ... Being in tune with the universe is the entire secrets.
William O. Douglas
#26. The old church tower and garden wall
Are black with autumn rain
And dreary winds foreboding call
The darkness down again
Emily Bronte
#27. If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
Bill Griffith
#28. My soul's a little grief, grappling your chest,
To climb your throat on sobs; easily chased
On other sighs and wiped by fresher winds.
Wilfred Owen
#29. There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
Henry Ward Beecher
#30. When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds only then will we see that we were here!
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#31. Too much of anything creates an imbalance in life. This is true even of virtues such as nonviolence. You never know when the winds of change strike; when violence may be required to protect your society, or to even survive.' There
Amish Tripathi
#32. My beautiful, my own
My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze
Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face!
Thy very winds feel native to my veins,
And cool them into calmness!
Lord Byron
#33. Lord Byron is an exceedingly interesting person, and as such is it not to be regretted that he is a slave to the vilest and most vulgar prejudices, and as mad as the winds?
There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.
Edmond De Goncourt
#34. All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?
Hirohito
#35. The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing ...
Martin Luther
#36. If something comes up I might write about it, but without an outlet the whole thing winds down.
Don McLean
#37. I lie in the dirt and pretend his words about my love don't hurt, but they slice me like the ice cold winds of winter. It takes all of the power I have left to lie there quietly and not remind him of the promises he has not kept.
Inger Iversen
#38. God of Jacob! it is the meeting of two fierce tides - the conflict of two oceans moved by adverse winds!
Walter Scott
#39. Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire, Poor Robin is yet flowerless; but how gay With his red stalks upon this sunny day!
William Wordsworth
#40. The northeast trade winds that blow at a steady fifteen knots onto the cliffs and reefs of the islands' lee shores produce endless trains of eminently glidable waves.
Simon Winchester
#41. Give us Direction; the best of goodwill; Put us in touch with fair winds. Sing to us softly, hum the evening's song. Tell us what the blacksmith has done for you.
Jethro Tull
#42. Welladay! Welladay!
For the winds of May!
Love is unhappy when love is away!
James Joyce
#43. If it winds up earlier, you should have a movie picked out. This is assuming she isn't sending you the 'let's go back to my place' signals. In that case - "
"Don't go there, Bob. Let's just not go there.
Nora Roberts
#44. When the winds of adversity come, remember one thing
kites fly the very highest against the wind. Kites don't fly in spite of opposition, kites fly high because of opposition. In fact, they couldn't fly without opposition.
John By
#45. Lirralei was a girl of storm
winds and thorns, the musk of the wild rose and the flight of the falcon.
Rosamund Hodge
#46. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
William C. Bryant
#48. Winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of earth.
Evangelista Torricelli
#49. Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.
Ovid
#50. What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by a firm, secure anchor that keeps holding despite turbulent winds and churning tides.
June Hunt
#51. Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.
William Blake
#52. Lonely trees are not lonely; they have their eternal companies: Songs of the birds; shadows of the clouds; lights of the Moon; whispers of the winds ... Lonely trees are not lonely!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#53. Chill air and wintry winds! My ear has grown familiar with your song; I hear it in the opening year, I listen, and it cheers me long.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#54. I grew up in a small village close to a big lake. There are heavy winds there, and they always sound different. I like these sounds best.
Christian Fennesz
#55. When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
#56. But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I'm getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my stacks of wood and what I can do with it.
Guy Clark
#57. These are the seasons of emotion,
and like the winds, they rise and fall.
Led Zeppelin
#58. Commit whatever grieves thee into the gracious hands of Him who never leaves thee, who heav'n and earth commands. Who points the clouds their courses, Whom winds and waves obey, He will direct thy footsteps and find for thee a way.
Paul Gerhardt
#59. I buttoned my sweater against the wind on my skin - winds of change.
Sarah Jio
#60. Psychology and economics are Stalin's favorable winds. He is also the party 'boss.' But he is, in addition, the Soviet Union's most striking personality.
Louis Fischer
#61. I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.
Geronimo
#62. A full harvest moon lit the sky. In its glow, there appeared an old woman dressed in black lace. A shimmering veil covered her head. With her back to the old oak tree, she keened wildly. Her cry was carried by the autumn winds and lost on the wings of the nightingales.
AnneMarie Dapp
#63. Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Be free.
Swami Vivekananda
#64. Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free.
Charles Mackay
#65. Love without friendship is like a kite, aloft only when the winds are favorable. Friendship is what gives love its wings.
Sherry Thomas
#66. The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.
Sean Parker
#67. From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
Bayard Taylor
#68. We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our inspiration ...
Mary Caroline Richards
#69. she'd been shaped by the winds of another life. Now
Nalini Singh
#70. A sensitive plant in a garden grew,
And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
And it opened its fan
like leaves to the light,
and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#71. Sergeant Missouri crouched close to the ground, pulling up his collar against the bitter, gusting winds. Show me, he thought tiredly, I'm from Missouri.
Maureen Daly
#72. Stirring the winds of change is always an adventure. Where the adventure takes you is the journey that can determine who you are.
Faith Tilley Johnson
#73. I know it might be better for you to come out from under your might-have-beens, into the winds of the world.
John Steinbeck
#74. Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
Adam Ferguson
#75. The desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds.
Michael Ondaatje
#76. The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#77. Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but unerring sense for what will some day be born of it.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#78. To know the laws that govern the winds, and to know that you know them, will give you an easy mind on your voyage round the world; otherwise you may tremble at the appearance of every cloud.
Joshua Slocum
#79. Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath but covers it like a lid, which flat bodies evidently do: for they are hard to move even for the winds, on account of their resistance.
Aristotle.
#80. It was said that the winds would carry into the Beyond and the Departed used them to send messages back to the Faithful, some of whom would stand for hours on hillsides straining for words of wisdom or comfort from lost loved ones.
Anthony Ryan
#81. I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#82. The winds of wrath came driving him, and blindly in the foam he fled from west to east, and errandless, unheralded he homeward sped.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#83. [L]et us talk about the unholy vice of self-esteem, the beginning and completion of the passions; and let us talk briefly, for to undertake an exhaustive discussion would be to act like someone who inquires into the weight of the winds.
John Climacus
#84. I carry the seeds of your hatred,' he shouted, hurling his words to the winds, 'and I know where
to plant them.'
Yes, he thought, Thebes is the right destination for the Lion of Macedon.
David Gemmell
#85. The winds must come from somewhere when they blow ... There must be reasons why the leaves decay.
(From Auden's If I Could Tell You
Alexander McCall Smith
#86. The journey to the realisation of your dreams is difficult; you will have to climb the mountains of despair, brave the storms of self doubt, be resolute in the winds of ridicule but the in the very end you will get a kind of self satisfaction that no one can take away from you
Rassool Jibraeerl Snyman
#87. On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have the certitude that such could not happen.
Philippe Petit
#88. Within its gates I heard the sound
Of winds in cypress caverns caught
Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought
To whisper what their roots had found.
("A Dream of Fear")
George Sterling
#89. Forget not that the earth likes to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran
#90. Everyone has an ulterior motive. Everyone wants something, and everyone is willing to do whatever they have
to in order to get it. Regardless of who winds up hurt in the process.
Kyra Dune
#91. What need has Death for a cover, and what winds can blow against him? He stands in his high house that overlooks the world.
Zora Neale Hurston
#92. Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges
battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.
Billy Graham
#93. I welcome the blizzard, with its ferocious winds and deep, drifting snow. This may be enough to keep the real wolves, also known as the Peacekeepers, from my door. A few days to think. To work out a plan. With Gale and Peeta and Haymitch all at hand. This blizzard is a gift.
Suzanne Collins
#94. Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street; faster than the winds, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly.
Taylor Swift
#95. You are a God of winds and tides. Of journeys and storms and navigation by stars and faith.
Lisa Wingate
#96. Nobody follows me where I go, Over the mountains or valleys below; Nobody sees where the wild winds blow, Only the Father in Heaven can know.
Maud Lindsay
#97. You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.
Ann Patchett
#98. All you need do is forgive. Resentment is an anchor holding you back from that which you desire most. Find the angel within you; cut the anchor line and beat your wings. The winds of forgiveness will stir a hurricane of healing and call up a tide of love that can carry you home.
Emily March
#99. Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do ... just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.
Charles R. Swindoll
#100. June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers;
In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her,
In vain would fond winds fan her back to life,
Her hours are numbered on the floral dial.
Lucy Larcom
