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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.
Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself.
Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.
Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd
Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.
If you listen too much to advice, you may wind up making other people's mistakes.
The little wind-flower, whose just opened eye
Is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.
Wind turbines are imposing structures and definitely not the kind of thing one wants to see from a golf course.
In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.
This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can't imagine a life without. Breathless moments.
If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends.
We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.
Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are. And listen to the wind singing in your veins.
Well, it's not far down to paradise, at least it's not for me And if the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility.
When I'm in a zone, I don't think about the shot or the wind or the distance or the gallery or anything; I just pull a club and swing.
Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows.
When they used to come to Tottenham we'd play Who's Gonna Drive You Home? Just to wind them up.
It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.
One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing.
He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.
I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead. They said all I was good for was playing Indians.
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
The autumn wind is a Raider, / Pillaging just for fun; / He'll knock you around, / And upside down, / And laugh when he's conquered and won.
The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails.
The flowers are ravined
by bees, the fruit blossoms
are thrown to the ground, the wind
the rain forces everything.
I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.
He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.
I would love to DJ the royal wedding. Just so I could play Candle in the Wind non-stop.
Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.
Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind!
Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms.
What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.
I finished 'Hell or High Water' and started writing 'Wind River' literally the next day.
We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.
There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie.
I just have to think of Philadelphia now, and I get ideas, I hear the wind, and I'm off into the darkness somewhere.
At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.
Fish from all over the world, from deep in the sea, wind up in countries from Germany to Japan. That is just crazy.
If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.
Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows
If you are bitter you are like a dry leaf that you can squash and you can blow away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.
Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.
The idea that we're going to replace oil and natural gas with solar and wind, and nothing else, is a hallucinatory delusion.
Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time.
I've always been in love with Howard McGillen's voice, ever since I got wind of him.
Through the chill of December the early winter moans... but it's that January wind that rattles old bones.
Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher
will not indicate a favoring wind,
or avert the thunderbolt.
As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.
From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
My mom does mine because I know I would go tweezer-crazy and wind up with no eyebrows at all.
The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same
We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.
With every year that passes, the easier I cry. The wind blows and I find myself moved by something.
Silence is golden for me. I live in the country and hear only my pets, birds, crickets, and the wind in the trees.
Still waters run deep. All things change until we wake. Dreams drift in the wind.
In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.
When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.
Qawaali is the art, that's in my soul. It's the ground. Everything else is a passing season - wind, rain, sunshine.
But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows.