Wind Quotes

"We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us 'like the fabled specter-ships,' which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
-George Orwell

"Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
-George Orwell

"The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools."
-Socrates

"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. "
-Seneca

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
-Henry Ford

"Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas."
-Orville Wright

"...You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
-Bob Dylan

"Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor. "
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude."
-William Shakespeare

"Love looks not with thine eyes, but with thine mind, Therefore is win'd Cupid painted blind."
-William Shakespeare

"If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him."
-Seneca

"Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes."
-Ann Landers

"Tell Wind and Fire where to stop but don't tell me."
-Charles Dickens

"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over."
-Aesop

"I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that."
-Steve Jobs

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."
-John Ruskin

"Globalization is not something we can hold off or turn off . . . it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature -- like wind or water."
-Bill Clinton

"Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind."
-Chinese Proverb

"Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed."
-Chinese Proverb

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
-William Arthur Ward

"When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?"
-Ralph Marston

"When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except put up with it until the wind changes."
-T.s. Eliot

"That really took the wind out of our sails. You just can't give up plays like that."
-Robert Browning

"A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind."
-John Cheever