Wind Quotes - Page 33

• But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and technological achievements, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

  Sargent Shriver

  God, Men, Fire

  "Transcript of Shriver's Acceptance Speech". www.nytimes.com. August 09, 1972.

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• [To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of change and set the processes of modernization in motion. Education brought not only the idea of equality but also another belief which we used to take for granted in the West-the idea of progress, the idea that science and technology can be used to better human conditions. In ancient society, men tended to believe themselves fortunate if tomorrow was not worse than today and anyway, there was little they could do about it.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Believe, Science, Men

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• Nothing is sudden in nature: whereas the slightest storms are forecasted several days in advance, the destruction of the world must have been announced several years beforehand by heat waves, by winds, by meteorites, in short, by an infinity of phenomena.

  Nicolas Antoine Boulanger

  Nature, Science, Years

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• You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Brighten Your Day

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• The mind is like the wind. You're trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do it?

  Mooji

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Mind

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• A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do thingsagainst himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• My daughter just graduated college and she's a dance major. She's done a couple of dance videos already and won Miss Massachusetts a couple of weeks ago. She's going out for Miss United States the second week of July, out in Las Vegas. She will probably wind up going to New York and trying the Broadway thing.

  Doug Flutie

  Daughter, Mother, New York

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• I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.' But sure, criticism can sometimes still get to me. Some things are so malicious, they knock the wind out of you. It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction... Would you ever put [America's plus-size sweetheart] in the headline for a male star?

  Melissa McCarthy

  Stars, Powerful, America

  "Melissa McCarthy: I cried about not being thinner", www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2014.

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• The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.

  Frederick Soddy

  Failure, Future, Science

  Frederick Soddy (1912). “Matter and energy”

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• Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker than that of males; that the pig is the only animal liable to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulders rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than men, and so on. Nevertheless, he is considered by the great majority of philosophers a paragon of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Children, Winter

  Bertrand Russell (1943). “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity”

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• My father once told me of a trick question he used in a college class on forest fire control. If there was a fire coming from a certain direction and wind was coming from another, what was the best thing to do? The right answer was, "Run like hell and pray for rain," but few students ever got it. So allow yourself the freedom of knowing there are times to bail out, quit, run, leave the struggle, and have more time for joy.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Letting Go, Running, Father

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• On who the flies landed without being chased away by that person, was on her way to death - this was one of the unmistakeable signs. From that time on, I think, dates my obsession with flies. In times of peace, when we all lied still, I made sure to sneak close up to my mother, watching very carefully that no fly would land on her, - I waved my hat over her body, flies don't like wind and movement.

  Jeroen Brouwers

  Love, Dream, Mother

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• I did try to come back and listen You never it..I didn't wish it But I did hear every answer ever question It's all about protection stil through the sunlight days I wait Track a ghost through the fog The sun is burning me And you come running out in the wind with me The ocean is your blanket.

  Stevie Nicks

  Running, Ocean, Fog

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• Caught like a leaf in the wind
  Lookin' for a friend
  Where can you turn
  Whisper the words of a prayer and you'll find Him there
  Arms open wide, love in His eyes
  Jesus - He meets you where you are
  Jesus - He heals your secret scars
  All the love you're looking for is Jesus
  The friend of a wounded heart

  Wayne Watson

  Jesus, Prayer, Love You

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• At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Song, Rocks

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Tis the night - the night
  Of the grave's delight,
  And the warlocks are at their play;
  Ye think that without
  The wild winds shout,
  But no, it is they - it is they.

  Arthur Cleveland Coxe

  Halloween, Night, Thinking

  Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1842). “Halloween: A Romaunt”, p.13

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• Running is so natural to me. When I was running track, people used to ask me, "When are you gonna start running hard?" The wind hits me in the face, and I feel so smooth - Man, I love to run!

  Eric Dickerson

  Football, Running, Men

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• I have learned to accept that, in the present moment at least, things are exactly as they are meant to be, and although I cannot control the future any more than I could control the wind and the weather, I can manage it and influence it in a positive way.

  Roz Savage

  Attitude, Weather, Way

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• Waves are fascinating, the way they are created by wind far out at sea and groomed by different winds as they come closer to shore. We surfers ride the very last part of the wave's life before it crashes and disappears, never to be seen again.

  Stephanie Gilmore

  Sports, Sea, Different

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• The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of the pond, the smell of the wind itself cleansed by a midday rain, or scented with pinon pine. The air is precious to the red man, for all things are the same breath - the animals, the trees, the man.

  Chief Seattle

  Rain, Native American, Men

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• The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Two, Energy, Earth

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• I urge individuals around the world to stand up, and ask local leaders, if they haven't already, to pledge to purchase cleaner cars, build green facilities, and buy green power like wind or solar energy. Our actions may determine if we become a casualty in the war for a habitable planet for generations to come.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  War, Car, Leader

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• ...if we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts. I think we should be developing every kind of alternative fuel that is available to us. That includes hydrogen to soybeans, from solar to wind. Whatever we can find that is going to help us clean up the environment we should be working really hard on developing.

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, Energy, Alternatives

  "Morgan Freeman has taste for clean energy". Interview with Adam Spangler, www.nbcnews.com. November 13, 2007.

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• Rely on renewable energy flows that are always there whether we use them or not, such as, sun, wind and vegetation: on energy income, not depletable energy capital.

  Amory Lovins

  Energy, Income, Use

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• The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so little of it. A field of corn growing in full sunlight in the middle of the day uses up all the carbon dioxide within a meter of the ground in about five minutes. If the air were not constantly stirred by convection currents and winds, the corn would stop growing.

  Freeman Dyson

  Air, Atmosphere, Important

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