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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows.
Once upon a time, the sky knew the weight of angel armies on the move, and the wind blew infernal with the fire of their wings.
...I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in this horrible way.
No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
Well, for Earth, Wind & Fire, we would often say that the band was more dynamic live than on record.
Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.
A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).
I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!
If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.
Estimation, assessment, looking back, retrospecting things - those are intellectual concepts, and they're always so subject to shifts in the wind.
Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.
Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.
Daily it is forced home on the mind of the biologist that nothing, not even the wind that blows, is so unstable as the level of the crust of this earth.
Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind, Faithful friends are hard to find.
I know that pretty much everybody I face is going to wind up wanting to take me down eventually.
The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.
Breast Feeding should not be attempted by fathers with hairy chests, since they can make the baby sneeze and give it wind.
Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.
I'm facing Niagara Falls - the wind and the mist and the dark and the peregrine falcons - and I'm going to stay focused on the other side.
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.
When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.
As kids, we were at concerts like Michael Jackson every weekend. My first concert was Earth, Wind and Fire.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Clouds, leaves, soil, and wind all offer themselves as signals of changes in the weather. However, not all the storms of life can be predicted.
The deepest words
of the wise man teach us
the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows
or the sound of the water when it is flowing.
You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses.
How many things are now at loose ends! Who knows which way the wind will blow tomorrow?
A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.
... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.
I strongly support an 'all-of-the-above' energy policy that includes additional development of wind, clean coal, and bio-fuels.
An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music.
A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water.
When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
We have more natural resources - coal, oil, wind - across the board not only to be energy independent but to be a leading exporter.
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
Finally, it occurs to me that the biggest problem with our elections is that however you vote, you wind up electing a politician.
Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.
Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
Don't go getting full of yourself becuase once you do, somebody's going to come and let the wind out of your sails
Your husband is lazy if when he leaves the house, he finds out which way the wind is blowing and goes that direction.
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
I'm a huge gamer! I love playing 'World of Warcraft.' It helps me wind down and escape reality for a few.
A book's alright when the weather's foul and there's nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name?
That was rude, you *are*! Rabbit knows a thing or two and I myself, don't need a weathervane to tell which way the wind blows.
Go out by yourself, face the wind, hold up your head and thank God for this gardening year.
The field of wind energy has immeasurable scope for innovation, translating to real world applications and tremendous economic opportunity.
Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.
Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.
A melancholy sound is in the air,
A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail
Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night.
Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.
The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!
Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago.
The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel.
