Wind Quotes - Page 26

• Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed and the first of what will come, but is more--let me see--more like a single point plucked on a single strand of a vast spider web of winds, setting the whole scene atingle. That way; it overlaps ... as prehistoric ferns grow from bathtub planters.

  Ken Kesey

  Time, Spiders, Way

  Ken Kesey (2006). “Sometimes a Great Notion”, p.191, Penguin

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• Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save. There let the wind sweep and the plover cry; But thou, go by. Child, if it were thine error or thy crime I care no longer, being all unblest; Wed whom thou wilt, but I am sick of Time, And I desire to rest. Pass on, weak heart, and leave me where I lie: Go by, go by.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Children, Lying

  'Come not, when I am dead' (1850)

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• Who can undo
  What time hath done? Who can win back the wind?
  Reckon lost music from a broken lute?
  Renew the redness of a last year's rose?
  Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep?

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Time, Sunset, Winning

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• To wind the mighty secrets of the past,
  And turn the key of time.

  Henry Kirke White

  Time, Past, Keys

  Henry Kirke White (1834). “The Life and Remains of Henry Kirke White, Etc”, p.92

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• Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Eye, Hands

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [206]

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• A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man's mouth will drive him about as the chaff, from any duty, and to any sin.

  Richard Baxter

  Inspirational, Men, Enemy

  Richard Baxter (1825). “A Christian Directory, Or, A Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of Conscience: Christian ethics, (or private duties)”, p.558

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• If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Sailing, Port

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• You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Attitude, Self Control

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• Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivation, Men

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.

  Guy Finley

  Inspirational, Moving, Sky

  Guy Finley (1994). “Freedom From the Ties That Bind: The Secret of Self Liberation”, p.13, BookBaby

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• My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Courage, Venture, Faces

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 165), 1895.

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• She danced the dance of flames and fire,
  and the dance of swords and spears;
  she danced the dance of stars and the dance of space,
  and then she danced the dance of flowers in the wind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dance, Stars, Flower

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• EXPRESSIONS Look without! Behold the beauty of the day, The shout of color to glad color, rocks and trees, and sun and seas, and wind and sky: All these are God's expression, art work of His hand, which men must love ere they can understand.

  Richard Hovey

  God, Art, Men

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• And I dream that something's coming
  And it's not just in the wind
  It's more than just tomorrow
  It's more than where we've been
  It offers me a promise
  It's telling me, begin!

  Harry Chapin

  Dream, Hope, Promise

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• Solitary reading will enable a man to stuff himself with information, but without conversation his mind will become like a pond without an outlet-a mass of unhealthy stag-nature. It is not enough to harvest knowledge by study; the wind of talk must winnow it and blow away the chaff. Then will the clear, bright grains of wisdom be garnered, for our own use or that of others.

  William Matthews

  Reading, Knowledge, Blow

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• Life - life - let there be life!
  Better a thousand times the roaring hours
  When wave and wind,
  Like the Arch-Murderer in flight
  From the Avenger at his heel,
  Storm through the desolate fastnesses
  And wild waste places of the world!

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Storm, Arches

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

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• I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Water

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.149, University of Virginia Press

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• We are the voices of the wandering wind,
  Which moan for rest and rest can never find;
  Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life,
  A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.

  Edwin Arnold

  Life, Voice, Storm

  Edwin Arnold (2016). “The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)”, p.34, Routledge

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• A little sun, a little rain,
  A soft wind blowing from the west,
  And woods and fields are sweet again,
  And warmth within the mountain's breast
  
  A little love, a little trust,
  A soft impulse, a sudden dream,
  And life as dry as desert dust,
  Is fresher than a mountain stream.

  Stopford Brooke

  Life, Dream, Sweet

  Stopford Augustus Brooke (1889). “Poems”

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• The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky
  The deer to the wholesome wold;
  And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid,
  As it was in the days of old.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Heart, Men

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Selected Verse”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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• Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind,
  One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea,
  One in many, O broken and blind,
  One as the waves are at one with the sea!
  Ay! when life seems scattered apart,
  Darkens, ends as a tale that is told,
  One, we are one, O heart of my heart,
  One, still one, while the world grows old.

  Alfred Noyes

  Life, Heart, Clouds

  Alfred Noyes (2008). “The Golden Hynde”, p.144, Wildside Press LLC

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• The moods of love are like the wind,
  And none knows whence or why they rise.

  Coventry Patmore

  Life, Mood, Knows

  Coventry Patmore (1863). “The betrothal. The espousals”, p.104

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• Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on renewable sources of energy,
  such as solar- and wind-derived electricity,. envisioned an age of "universal education and sustenance of all humanity".
  "The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."

  Blaise Pascal

  Life, Heart, Humanity

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• Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Weather, Water

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.70, Harvard University Press

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• A sensitive plant in a garden grew,
  And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
  And it opened its fan
  like leaves to the light,
  and closed them beneath the kisses of night.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Nature, Sunset, Kissing

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.254

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