Wind Quotes

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

~ Jimmy Dean

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

~ Augustus Hare

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

~ Johannes Brahms

Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

~ Kara Walker

I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.

~ Evel Knievel

The softest thing I've ever heard are the wind chimes in my backyard. They are soft and cool and mellow.

~ Ty Dolla Sign

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

~ Homer

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

~ Samuel Butler

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

~ William James

I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.

~ Billy Connolly

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

~ Yogi Berra

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

~ Jim Rohn

You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.

~ Padma Lakshmi

From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work.

~ Homaro Cantu

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

~ Anne Brontë

And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.

~ Roy Bean

All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?

~ Diane Lane

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.

~ Björk

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

~ Leo Buscaglia

In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

~ George Crumb

My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.

~ John Mcgraw

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

~ Winston Churchill

When wheat is ripening properly, when the wind is blowing across the field, you can hear the beards of the wheat rubbing together. They sound like the pine needles in a forest. It is a sweet, whispering music that once you hear, you never forget.

~ Norman Borlaug

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.

~ Tom Petty

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

~ Kate Chopin

It seems every morning I wake up to face a list of 20 things to do, with time only to do 10, and somehow I always wind up squishing in 30.

~ Karen Salmansohn

Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us.

~ Magnus Larsson

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

~ Jonathan Swift

Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.

~ Stephanie Mills

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

~ Arthur Ashe

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

~ Chanakya

There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.

~ Bill Mckibben

It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.

~ Albert Pujols

We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums.

~ Dianne Feinstein

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

~ Jim Elliot

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

~ Orville Wright

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

~ John Millington Synge