Wind Quotes - page 2

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. (Dante Alighieri)
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall? View quote
Dante Alighieri
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. View quote
Bruce Lee
It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow. View quote
Wallace Stevens
The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day When the sun is out and the wind is still You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, A cloud comes over the sunlit arch, A wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March. View quote
Robert Frost
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. View quote
Dolly Parton
You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn't necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones. View quote
Margaret Atwood
I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that. View quote
Steve Jobs
Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long, Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner. Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years, Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more Till like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still. View quote
John Dryden
God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb. View quote
Laurence Sterne
What Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew No grown, his growth lasts taught, he ne'er forgets May learn a thousand things, not twice the same. (Robert Browning)
The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by. View quote
Christina Rossetti
In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago. View quote
Christina Rossetti
These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north. View quote
Clifford D. Simak
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Oh I see said the Earl but my own idear is that these things are as piffle before the wind. View quote
Daisy Ashford
Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed. View quote
Brad Pitt
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. View quote
Catherine II of Russia
Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind. View quote
William Butler Yeats
You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me. (Bob Marley)
Never seek to tell thy love Love that never told can be For the gentle wind does move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears Ah, she doth depart. Soon as she was gone from me A traveler came by Silently, invisibly He took her with a sigh. View quote
William Blake
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. View quote
Aesop
Sleep is when all unsorted stuff comes as from a dustbin upset in a high wind. View quote
William Golding
His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind. View quote
Anne Brontë
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