The Wind Rises Quotes

#1. If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.

Ernest Hemingway,

#2. At sea, sometimes, if you take a ship too far from land and the wind rises and the tide sucks with a venomous force and the waves splinter white above the shield-pegs, you have no choice but to go where the gods will.

Bernard Cornwell

#3. When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east," she said sadly. "When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When my womb quickens again, and I bear a living child. Then you will return, my sun-and-stars, and not before." -Daenerys Targaryen

George R R Martin

#4. I loved the fact that I was suddenly no longer dependent on whether a store took out an ad in the right place, or on the word on the street.

Neil Gaiman

#5. Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.

Napoleon Hill

#6. The Spirit of man is like a kite, which rises by means of those very forces which seem to oppose its rise; the tie that joins it to the earth, the opposing winds of temptation, and the weight of earth-born affections which it carries with it into the sky.

Coventry Patmore

#7. Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

#8. When I look at her, my heart brightens up. She's that kind of girl.

Lee Jung-jae

#9. Love does whatever it does, whenever it wants to do it.

Camile Souza

#10. When you embrace the uncertain, life opens up unusual new paths. Seeds sown way back bloom as flowers, in ways one can never fathom.

Subroto Bagchi

#11. When pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

Gloria Steinem

#12. The sun rises, the sun falls, the wind blows and the birds sing no matter where you are. These are experiences that unite us all... something we can all enjoy together

Melanie Charlene

#13. Do not fear adversity. Remember, a kite rises against the wind rather than with it. People are not willing to take risks when they feel afraid or threatened. But if you manage people by love-that is, if you show them respect and trust-they start to perform up to their real capabilities.

Jan Carlzon

#14. Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

John Hodgman

#15. You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake. (What The Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth?)

Gayle Forman

#16. I just feel a connection with Marilyn Monroe. I just love her. I just completely feel what she went through.

Anna Nicole Smith

#17. The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs.

Plato

#18. When will he be as he was?' Dany demanded.
'When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east' said Mirri Maz Duur. 'When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child. Then he will return, and not before.

George R R Martin

#19. Change threatens, and its possibility creates frightened, angry people. They are found in their purest essence on the extreme right, but in all of us there is some fear of process, of change.

Carl R. Rogers

#20. The Eagle does not escape the storm. The Eagle simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It spreads its mighty wings and rises on the winds that bring the storm.

Jack White

#21. The strong wind rises against the trees so they bend like girls washing their hair.

Lauren Groff

#22. The suits made hits and created stars because they knew something. The suits had been around the block and back, having experienced, firsthand, everyone from Jimmy Dorsey to Jimi Hendrix to Jeff Buckley to J. Lo. I trusted them because they earned that trust, at least on a purely musical level.

Anonymous

#23. Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#24. Tunner's presence created a situation, however slight, which kept him from entering into the reflective state he considered essential.

Paul Bowles