Top 868 Winds Quotes & Sayings

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.

...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather. Nay, in a real sense there is no weather at all anywhere but in England. In France you have much sun and some rain; in Italy you have hot winds and cold winds; in Scotland and Ireland you have rain, either thick or thin; in America you have hells of heat and cold, and in the Tropics you have sunstrokes varied by thunderbolts. But all these you have on a broad and brutal scale, and you settle down into contentment or despair.

Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games--if you count exhibitions -- and I'm overpaid!

My lips are chapped from the winds of change.

Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes will take off into the night air and the night winds, sliding past and behind each other, zooming, turning and turning in the redness of the winds, living, never to return.

The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.

The hushed winds their Sabbath keep.

I see thou art implacable, more deaf To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas Are reconcil'd at length, and sea to shore: Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages Eternal tempest never to be calm'd.

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.

There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.

The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.

And all winds go sighing For sweet things dying.

I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

The morning air of the pasture turned steadily cooler. Day by day, the bright golden leaves of the birches turned more spotted as the first winds of winter slipped between the withered branches and across the highlands toward the southeast. Stopping in the center of the pasture, I could hear the winds clearly. No turning back, they pronounced. The brief autumn was gone.

The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.

For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.

Him who trembles before the flame and the flood, And the winds that blow through the starry ways, Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood Cover over and hide, for he has no part With the lonely, majestical multitude.

The winds of change are blowing at the RNC.

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

Gain control of the emotions. Be the helmsperson and not blown around by the winds of emotion. While there will be winds, you can navigate them or even use them to expedite your journey.

I certainly never feel discouraged. I can't myself raise the winds that might blow us or this ship into a better world. But I can at least put up the sail so that when the winds comes, I can catch it.

November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.

This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds.

NASA has been scattered to the four winds.

Winds of May, that dance on the sea, Dancing a ring-around in glee From furrow to furrow, while overhead The foam flies up to be garlanded, In silvery arches spanning the air, Saw you my true love anywhere? Welladay! Welladay! For the winds of May! Love is unhappy when love is away!

One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not the gales Which tells us the way to go. Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate, As we voyage along through the life: Tis the set of a soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of the curves of the winds which as they strike against these projections, being forced to preserve their first impetus bend their straight course towards the sky with divers revolutions, at the beginning of which the birds come to a stop with their wings open, receiving underneath themselves the continual buffetings of the reflex courses of the winds.

The winds are out of breath.

Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.

I cannot command winds and weather.

How silent are the winds!

Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods.

The winds of change are blowing across Ontario.

Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.

Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.

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

Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

She's like a wind-up monkey that winds itself.

The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.

The bitter winds in February were sometimes called the First East Winds, but the longing for spring somehow made them seem more piercing.

From earliest childhood, I have rejoiced over the Santa Ana winds. I know those winds the way the Eskimos know their snows.

Only we should not be influenced by the winds.

The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure.They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds.

Like a four-sided porch I'm open to all winds.

Abhinav is like the winds beneath my wings.

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

To a crazy ship, all winds are contrary.

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy.

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 winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

The storms will come and the winds will rise and the gusts will threaten to pull you from your roots. Let the winds come. Let them rage and know that you will not break in the breeze, you will bend. Bend. Always bend because you are made of more strength than you know, because you are better than the breaking.

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