Wind Quotes - Page 39

• How could anyone not want to live when there were so many things to live for? There were rainy nights and wind and the slap of the sea and the moon. There were books to read and pictures to paint and music.

  Michelle Magorian

  Book, Night, Moon

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• A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.

  Meriwether Lewis

  Morning, Night, Way

  Meriwether Lewis (2012). “History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.”, p.229, tredition

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• The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.

  Meriwether Lewis

  Country, Two, People

  Meriwether Lewis (2012). “History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.”, p.249, tredition

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• If I had a soul, I’d probably wind up in hell anyway.

  Nancy Farmer

  Soul, Hell, Ifs

  Nancy Farmer (2013). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new trees, strange flowers and different grasses every year. When the spring winds blow, they blow in the same way. In the same places the same dear blossoms lift up the same sweet faces, yet they never weary us. When it rains, it rains as it always has. Even so would the same tasks which fill our daily lives put on new meanings if we wrought them in the spirit of renewal from within--a spirit of growth and beauty.

  Helen Keller

  Sweet, Spring, Rain

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.19, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit.

  Tyson Chandler

  Relax, Paint, Yeah

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• THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous.

  Terry Brooks

  Real, Names, Watches

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• When you know that something's going to happen, you'll start trying to see signs of its approach in just about everything. Always try to remember that most of the things that happen in this world aren't signs. They happen because they happen, and their only real significance lies in normal cause and effect. You'll drive yourself crazy if you start trying to pry the meaning out of every gust of wind or rain squall. I'm not denying that there might actually be a few signs that you won't want to miss. Knowing the difference is the tricky part.

  David Eddings

  Lying, Crazy, Real

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• Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence bending and firm comforting rooted chorus line dancing with the moon, the wind, the clouds framing bursts of stars tender rugged celebration absorbing and releasing life each holy branch holding the power of the Universe. There.

  Wallace Stevens

  Stars, Power, Moon

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• I love him for his sake;
  And yet I know him a notorious liar,
  Think him a great way fool, solely a coward;
  Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him
  That they take place when virtue's steely bones
  Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see
  Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

  William Shakespeare

  Liars, I Love Him, Thinking

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.217

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• Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho sing, heigh-ho unto the green holly Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Then heigh-ho the holly This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend rememberd not.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Art, Winter

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 174

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• Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Air, People, Genius

  "Papers and Journals".

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• An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind?

  William Butler Yeats

  Thinking, Hatred, Mind

  Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1920) "A Prayer for My Daughter"

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• If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf

  William Butler Yeats

  Hatred, Mind, Tears

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.93

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• Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Christian, Struggle, Roots

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1847). “Additional Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Late Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee: Consisting of Various Sermons and Lectures Delivered by Him in the Course of His Ministry”, p.470

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• You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wedding, Memories, Wings

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.28, Lulu.com

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• How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful

  Mian Mian

  Beautiful, Sunshine, Rivers

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• The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface.

  Jack Horner

  Country, Broken, Water

  Jack Horner, James Gorman (2009). “How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution”, p.37, Penguin

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• But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?

  John Milton

  Sex, Gay, Sea

  John Milton (1832). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.34

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• It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished . . .

  Charles Dickens

  Get Well, Flower, Recovery

  Charles Dickens (1859). “Dombey and Son”, p.142

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• The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of the blood in my head and the aural glitter of all those little eardrum hairs quivering like a drunk in withdrawal.

  David Foster Wallace

  Hair, Blood, Drunk

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace, www.nytimes.com. 1997.

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• There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world.

  Billy Graham

  Faith, Religious, Flower

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• A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management.

  Richard Kinder

  Ideas, Fragility, Management

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• Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator, what lessons would you draw? Qaddafi was the thug who came in from the cold, the one who (in the wake of Saddam's fall) renounced his nuclear program and was supposedly rehabilitated in the chancelleries of the West. He was a strong partner in the war on terrorism, according to U.S. diplomats. And what did Washington do? They overthrew him anyway.

  Mark Steyn

  Strong, War, Party

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• Peace originates with the flow of things - its heart is like the movement of the wind and waves. The Way is like the veins that circulate blood through our bodies, following the natural flow of the life force. If you are separated in the slightest from that divine essence, you are far off the path.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Heart, Essence, Blood

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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