Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows
I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.
We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.
Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died.
My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined.
My mom does mine because I know I would go tweezer-crazy and wind up with no eyebrows at all.
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.
Simon Cowell and I are great friends and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing.
Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole.
How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind!
The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy.
Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows.
I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.
Oleander time, she said. Lovers who kill each other now will blame it on the wind.
Most people think of solar and wind as new energy sources. In fact, they are two of our oldest.
From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof?
You wind up listening to one song that you really like 30 times on YouTube and then you're done with it. That's the way it is.
But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.
It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.
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.
Like a bird with broken wing
that has traveled through wind for years . . .
I sleep and my heart stays awake . . .
What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.
Simon Cowell and I are great friends, and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing.
The idea that we're going to replace oil and natural gas with solar and wind, and nothing else, is a hallucinatory delusion.
How did Rue end up on that stage with nothing but the wind offering to take her place?
Sometimes the wind along the Pacific shore blows so hard it steals your breath before you can inhale it.
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind
When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same
At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.
Something is happening. I sense a change in the wind…a mutual understanding of each other. I haven’t felt this way in forever.
And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken.
Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
Did you ever run behind a slow pack? You get a trailing wind and a lot of body odor.
He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.
Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.
The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.
We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.
But high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you're watching very closely The rock slips a little bit.
Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind.
Even rain and wind and stormy clouds bring joy, just as knowing animals and flowers and where they live.
Wherever the wind blows me, I'll go! My eventual goal is to have enough experience to produce something on my own.
Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.
I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.
Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars,
blown about us by the wind, and drink the
universe in a glass of rain.
The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.
The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.
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.
Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms.
A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words
I'm not an elected official who puts a finger in the wind to see what the majority thinks; I represent women, whether they're popular or not.
Watching people toss all caution to the wind, who are ready to put their lives on the line for a dream, is something that is accessible.
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