Strong Winds Quotes

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

Peter Marshall

Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

Peter Marshall (1949). “Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949”

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway

Inspirational, Life, Strength

Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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When a strong wind blows, the clouds vanish and blue sky appears. Similarly, when the powerful wisdom that understand the nature of the mind arises, the dark clouds of ego disappear.

Thubten Yeshe

Wisdom, Nature, Strong

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Strong winds do not last all morning, hard rains do not last all day.

Laozi

Strong, Morning, Rain

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In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.

Mark Suster

Strong, Wind, Turkeys

"In a strong wind even Turkeys can fly" by Mark Suster, www.businessinsider.com. December 27, 2010.

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Every time a strong wind blows, every sand and dust yearns for being a solid rock and every solid rock longs for flying with the wind!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Strong, Blow, Rocks

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An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.

Aesop

Strength, Strong, Wind

Aesop, Lloyd W. Daly (1961). “Aesop without morals: the famous fables, and a life of Aesop, newly translated and edited by Lloyd W. Daly. Illustrated by Grace Muscarella”

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Winter is on the road to spring. Some think it a surly road. I do not. A primrose road to spring were not as engaging to my heart as a frozen icicled craggy way angered over by strong winds that never take the iron trumpets from their lips.

William Alfred Quayle

Strong, Spring, Heart

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A good quotation is a very strong wind; it can change a man's direction!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Change, Strong, Men

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Obstacles can arise from good as well as bad circumstances, but they should never deter or overpower you. Be like the earth, which supports all living creatures indiscriminately, without distinguishing good from bad. The earth is simply there. Your practice should be strengthened by the difficult situations you encounter, just as a bonfire in a strong wind is not blown out, but blazes even brighter.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Strong, Wind, Practice

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Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.

Arthur Golden

Inspirational, Strength, Success

"Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.

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Loud wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains,
Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea,
Pour forth thy vials like streams from airy mountains,
Draughts of life to me.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Strong, Wind Blowing, Sea

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Flowers are fragile and ephemeral...Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without sunlight...and a spindly fence has no power against a strong wind. - Haibara Ai

Gosho Aoyama

Strong, Rain, Flower

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Regard this fleeting world like this:
Like stars fading and vanishing at dawn,
like bubbles on a fast-moving stream,
like morning dewdrops evaporating on blades of grass,
like a candle flickering in a strong wind...
echoes, mirages, and phantoms, hallucinations,
and like a dream.

Gautama Buddha

Dream, Strong, Morning

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There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of the so-called seat of an accomplished horseback rider or a sailor coming about in a strong wind. The words have both muscle and grace, familiarity and surprise.

Anne Bernays

Strong, Writing, Wind

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Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the other by the very movements of its innards. The external actions are strong winds, rains, river currents, sea waves, ice, forest fires, floods; there is only one internal force-earthquake.

Mikhail Lomonosov

Strong, Rain, Science

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Pretend that I ain't in fact/Coming off like a thin hat/Where strong wind at

Elzhi

Strong, Wind, Facts

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My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would separate forever. “Hold tight,” I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to.

Haruki Murakami

Strong, Thinking, Wind

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A girl is like a young tree, she said. You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you. That is the only way to grow strong and straight. But if you bend to listen to other people, you will grow crooked and weak. You will fall to the ground with the first strong wind. And then you will be like a weed, growing wild in any direction, running along the ground until someone pulls you out and throws you away.

Amy Tan

Girl, Mother, Running

Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.191, Penguin

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Do not seek earthly glory in any matter, for it is extinguished for him who loves it. In its time it blows on a man like a strong wind, and then quickly, taking from him the fruits of his good works, it goes away from him, laughing at his foolishness.

Gennadius of Constantinople

Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.

William Faulkner

Strong, Writing, Wind

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Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals of silk until it becomes the only good memory I have of her -- the only memory I allowed myself to keep.

Karen White

Strong, Memories, Hair

Karen White (2008). “The Memory of Water”, p.11, Penguin

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He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.

James I. Robertson, Jr.

Strong, Horse, War

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[On the propulsive force of rockets] One part of fire takes up as much space as ten parts of air, and one part of air takes up the space of ten parts of water, and one part of water as much as ten parts of earth. Now powder is earth, consisting of the four elementary principles, and when the sulfur conducts the fire into the dryest part of the powder, fire, and air increase ... the other elements also gird themselves for battle with each other and the rage of battle is changed by their heat and moisture into a strong wind.

Vannoccio Biringuccio

Strong, Science, Space

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Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.

Charlotte Bronte

Strong, Passion, Wind

Charlotte Bronte “Annotated Jane Eyre: An Autobiography with English Grammar Exercises: by Charlotte Bronte (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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