Winds Quotes

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.

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

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

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.

Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

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

Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.

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

Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.

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.

They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers.

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.

My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work.

We train very hard under windy conditions. I've actually walked a wire in my backyard with 90-mile-an-hour winds.

We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds.

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

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

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.

The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.

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.

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.

Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.

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.

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.