Quotes About Windward

#1. When you start a fire, be to windward of it. Do not attack from the leeward.

Sun Tzu

#2. Nothing goes to windward like a 747.

Tracee Ellis Ross

#3. Perhaps fate is an answer from God ... or perhaps fate is nothing more than an accident - two ships lost in the dark, running aground on the same windward beach.

Ramona Ausubel

#4. Wilderness is an anchor to windward. Knowing it is there, we can also know that we are still a rich nation, tending our resources as we should - not a people in despair searching every last nook and cranny of our land for a board of lumber, a barrel of oil, a blade of grass, or a tank of water.

Clinton Presba Anderson

#5. If you would on'y lay your course, and a p'int to windward, you would ride in carriages, you would. But not you! I know you. You'll have your mouthful of rum tomorrow, and go hang.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#6. Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

T. S. Eliot

#7. Illuminated by the same joyful curiosity and erudition, lyric writing, and plain love of life that made a classic of Archie Carr's The Windward Road.

Peter Matthiessen

#8. All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.

Roger Williams

#9. I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.

Andrea Arnold

#10. The statue was of a young man with a tall, gaunt body and an angular face. He held his head as if he faced a challenge and found joy in his capacity to meet it. All that Dagny wanted of life was contained in the desire to hold her head as he did.

Ayn Rand

#11. It wasn't until I worked in the Perth Hospital kitchen in the 1970s that I began hearing stories about the ghosts that haunted their halls at night.

Arlene Stafford-Wilson

#12. The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.

Emily Carr

#13. If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

Barbara Kruger

#14. I looked at the fashion model and reassured myself she wasn't dead.

Tara Moss

#15. We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Henry Ward Beecher

#16. The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare - one that is inflicting tremendous pain and suffering that could be easily avoided if the misconceptions and taboos that sustain it were dispelled.

George Soros

#17. The stars looked down at me from infinite space. We are tiny, they said, but you are insignificant.

Shane Maloney