Quotes 141 till 160 of 192.
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The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
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The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.
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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.
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The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 157 -
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
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Their peace and their war
Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.Poems, 1913-1956 -
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
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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.
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There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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There paused to shut the door
A fellow called the Wind,
With mystery before,
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There's a pang in all rejoicing, And a joy in the heart of pain; And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?
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There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love.
A Sicilian story and Mirandola -
They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
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They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.
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Things whispered here, and the trees muttered with the wind and perhaps with other things. Men knew the place was old, old as the world, and they never made peace with it.
Arafels Saga (1983) The Dreamstone, Book One : The Gruagach, Ch. 1 : O -
Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.
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