Wind Quotes

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

~ David Hare

Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

~ Gary Zukav

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

~ Michel De Montaigne

I'm consumed with tech - medical, computational, impossible tech. So, I don't know exactly what I'll wind up doing, where I'll go with all this schooling, but I'm willing that it be better than my dogmatic vision of it all.

~ Justine Bateman

In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.

~ George Lois

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

I certainly have routines in my day-to-day life that are important to me and still give me feelings of security and control, but the capacity to break out of them every so often as I travel has given me a second wind.

~ Daniel Tammet

My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

~ Dolly Parton

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

~ Soren Kierkegaard

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

~ David Friedman

If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

~ Vusi Mahlasela

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

~ Ani Difranco

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I don't talk about who I'm dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the media.

~ Bridget Fonda

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.

~ Sterling Hayden

If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars', I'd wind up owing them money.

~ Ricki Lake

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

~ John Florio

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

~ Shania Twain

I have always loved a hard-faced girl. I get that Alison Goldfrapp isn't easy, and I like her belligerence. She's deeply sexy and controlled, like a Strict Machine, and it seems to wind the b'jesus out of the women I know. On the outside, I watch and smile and will her on like a twisted silent maiden aunt in the dark corner.

~ Alison Moyet

'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'

~ Ranbir Kapoor

In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it.

~ Freida Pinto

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

Dylan captured what was on a million minds and turned it into poetry. With 'Blowin' in the Wind' or 'The Times They Are A-Changin',' he set a whole new standard.

~ Jimmy Iovine

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

~ Frederick Douglass

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.

~ Frances Beinecke

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

~ Amanda Harlech

Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.

~ Mitt Romney

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

~ Annie Dillard

Incredibly, oil and gas companies don't have to pay certain environmental costs that amount to small change to them, while an offshore wind project start-up is faced with fees that could mean the difference between building a wind farm and packing up and going home.

~ Chellie Pingree

I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.

~ Jello Biafra

The potential in many environmental issues is that if you undertake corrective action without appropriate understanding of the problem, then you wind up doing more harm than good.

~ Hugh Ross

I watch political shows for a number of weeks in a row, and all I see are guys arguing with each other over issues I have no idea about. My brother, he loves war-torn places. My dad would always read the paper and tell me I should watch CNN, but I usually wind up watching 'Breaking Bad.'

~ Norm Macdonald

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

~ Ami Ayalon

I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

~ Maggie Smith