Windings Quotes

#1. Through and through the inspired leaves,
Ye maggots, make your windings;
But, oh! respect his lordship's taste,
And spare his golden bindings.

Robert Burns

#2. There were so many who did wish to speak. For the movement was without scruples; she rolled towards her goal unconcernedly and deposed the corpses of the drowned in the windings of her course.

Anonymous

#3. There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level, and surveys the long windings of destiny.

Edith Wharton

#4. Law has been called a bottomless pit, not so much because of its depth, as that its windings are so obscure nobody can see the end.

George Pope Morris

#5. Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly on into the future ...

Simon Schama

#6. I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia

Ptolemy

#7. It consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.

Isaac Barrow

#8. My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write.

Edith Wharton

#9. The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.

Lord Chesterfield

#10. Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin ... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and windings; be able to say, at its most secret actings, 'This is your old way and course; I know what you aim at.'

John Owen

#11. Try again, I've gotten much better at detecting your bullshit

Alexandra Bracken

#12. Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.

James Brown

#13. No matter how pathetic or pitiful, every human is fated to have one moment in their lives in which they can change their own destiny.

Takayuki Yamaguchi

#14. When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.

Samuel Alexander

#15. I reach down and pull off my shirt, revealing an incredible set of abs that can only be attained after years of strenuous dentistry.

Chuck Tingle

#16. I majored in industrial design/painting, but haven't had time to exercise that creativity.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

#17. Your present interests are not a solid basis of a career decisions. So, stop following your passion and Do What Is Valuable.!

Moutasem Algharati

#18. I was in sit-ins to desegregate restaurants and movie houses in the '60s.

Joe Biden

#19. For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.

Robert Briffault

#20. One can fight money only with money! from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces.

Ivan Stoikov

#21. They all think they have everything under control, when, in fact, they control nothing.

Paulo Coelho

#22. What a fantastic piece of hot lustful woman she was, Roger thought irrelevantly.

Robert Anton Wilson

#23. To change, you need to accept your past and deny to be challenged and overcome by your future.

Auliq Ice