Windmills Quotes

• Like a circle in a spiral
  Like a wheel within a wheel
  Never ending or beginning
  On an ever-spinning reel
  As the images unwind
  Like the circles that you find
  In the windmills of your mind.

  Michel Legrand

  Song, Circles, Mind

  Song: The Windmills of Your Mind

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• The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Effort, Slopes

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.171, 1982.

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• An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mind, Bells, Jars

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• Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Giants, Looks, Literature

  "Don Quixote".

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• hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Fall, Blue, Sky

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.238, A&C Black

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• I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill.

  William Shakespeare

  Garlic, Cheese

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [158]

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• You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.

  George Herbert

  Life, Pairs

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.312

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• Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

  George Orwell

  Said Life, Gone, Goes On

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation; their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Country, Air, Wind

  Robert Louis Stevenson, June Skinner Sawyers (2002). “Dreams of elsewhere: the selected travel writings of Robert Louis Stevenson”, Neil Wilson Pub Ltd

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• Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Hurt

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.326, Penguin

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• I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that... it'd be that Don Quixote feeling, that I'd have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you've got to do it. That's the only way you can do things.

  Oliver Stone

  Feelings, One Day, Ambitious

  Source: www.chud.com

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• Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Fall, Air, Wind

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.106, University of Chicago Press

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• If one day I look out from my cabin's porch and see a row of windmills spinning in the distance, I won't curse them. I will praise them. It will mean we are finally getting somewhere.

  David Suzuki

  Distance, Mean, One Day

  "The Beauty of Wind Farms". www.newscientist.com. April 13, 2005.

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• You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.

  Bill Maher

  Sea, Environmental, Collapse

  "Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2010.

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• I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.

  Carly Fiorina

  Fighting, Tilt

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• There are times when each of us has to have some gumption to take a stand as to what we wish to preserve or change in order to maintain our self-respect and not be as "a reed shaken with the wind" (Matt. 11:7) . . . . We lose much credibility and strength, and we risk being weighed on an uneven balance, when, Don Quixote-like, we go around "tilting windmills".

  James E. Faust

  Strength, Self, Order

  James E. Faust (1990). “Reach Up for the Light”, Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Company

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• To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Wind, Abuse

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• There isnt a single windmill owner in Holland who doesnt have a second job, for when there is no wind.

  Johnny Ball

  Jobs, Wind, Owners

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• From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Sky, Feelings

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.193, Penguin UK

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• Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Battle, Giants, Thirty

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1981). “Don Quixote”, Signet Classics

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• My golf game is getting real good. Last week, I got through the windmill.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Real, Golf, Games

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.143, Zondervan

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• Those who believe that we have reached the limit of business progress and employment opportunity in this country are like the farmer who had two windmills and pulled one down because he was afraid there was not enough wind for both.

  Morris S. Tremaine

  Inspirational, Country, Business

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• We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night.

  Andrea Gibson

  Night, Light, Storm

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• I fought windmills with such heavy weapons that I risked dislocating my arm.

  Fanny Lewald

  Arms, Weapons, Heavy

  Fanny Lewald, Hanna Ballin Lewis (1992). “The Education of Fanny Lewald: An Autobiography”, p.301, SUNY Press

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• A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Thinking, Giants, Might

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