Trade Wind Quotes

#1. It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don't just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness.

Anton Chekhov

#2. Some kinds of hunger were sweet in themselves, the anticipation of satisfaction as keen a pleasure as the slaking.

Diana Gabaldon

#3. Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

Frederick Sommer

#4. Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.

William Least Heat-Moon

#5. I Still Have Everything You Gave Me
It is dusty on the edges.
It is slightly rotten.
I guard it without thinking.
I focus on it once a year
when I shake it out in the wind.
I do not ache.
I would not trade.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#6. I have the choice to be angry at God for what i don't have, or be thankful for what i do have

Nick Vujicic

#7. Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.

Marianne Williamson

#8. Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

#9. Dorian, I have wings!"
"I can see that."
"What am I?" I asked, as chills ran up my spine.
"I - I can't be positive, because I have never seen one. But I think you're a phoenix," he said in amazement. "You are so beautiful.

Karen Gammons

#10. I am not the Juliet to his Romeo.
I am not the lodestar around which he orbits.
I am not the trade wind by which he sets the course of his sails.
I am not essential or exceptional.

I was his Monday girl.
Shitty, really, since he was my whole damn week.

Julie Johnson

#11. The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.

T. Boone Pickens

#12. Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

Calvin Coolidge

#13. I got into house music thanks to Dutch master mixer Ben Liebrand and my friends at school.

Armin Van Buuren

#14. The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.

Ernest Hemingway,

#15. It's always been you. I don't want anybody else; I don't dream about anybody else. It's only you.

Jennifer Probst

#16. I'm so super-critical of everything that I do.

Kevin Nash

#17. We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need

Jim Rohn

#18. White is not always light and black is not always dark.

Habeeb Akande

#19. The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

Og Mandino