Wind Quotes

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

Storm, Again, Force

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.
Hugo Black

Political, Away, Written

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
Charles R. Swindoll

Compromise, Misfortune, Sudden

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.
John Wycliffe

Life, Enemy, Stronger

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

Best, Dark, Keep

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Real, Thought, Somebody

I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance.
Pat Robertson

Small, Young, Prison

The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.
Eartha Kitt

Path, Means, Anyone

The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.
Shaun White

Game, Anybody, Flying

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.
Pink

Nature, Nothing, Break

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

Give, Far, Space

The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.
Bob Schieffer

Time, Best, Government

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

Mistakes, May, Advice

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.
Sargent Shriver

Education, Good, Parents

Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.
Hedy Lamarr

Hair, Makes, Blow

Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.
Jeff Bridges

Change, Different, Thoughts

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
Carl Hiaasen

Rule, Begin, Trees

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.'
Terry Pratchett

Everything, Done, Thought

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
Laurence Sterne

God, Lamb, Tempers

Throw caution to the wind and just do it.
Carrie Underwood

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
Dante Alighieri

Direction, Name, Changes

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?
Cate Blanchett

Life, Work, Good

When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.
Shia LaBeouf

Broken, Bone, Hits

I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
Eden Ahbez

Rain, Earth, Heaven

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

Shaken, Mere, Reed

The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head... The autumn wind is a Raider, pillaging just for fun.
Steve Sabol

Fun, Weather, Sea

Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
Bodhidharma

Joy, Path, Follow

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.
Pete Townshend

Off, Whatever, Until

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

Beauty, Poetry, Try

We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.
Rick Perry

Hope, Moving, Greatest

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