Winds Quotes

We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.

All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.

You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

The mist was so challenging and the winds hit me, definitely more than I expected. It was definitely those winds, you can't re-enact them, you can't recreate them. Then my forearms started to tense up and you feel like running.

The snow continues with high winds we remain at this camp to day in consequence of the weather.

We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.

Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

Only he shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes our the winds. He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain. He does all those things. Only he realizes miracles permanently.

I cannot command winds and weather.

We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.

But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I'm getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my stacks of wood and what I can do with it.

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.

In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.

Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.