Quotes 61 till 80 of 158.
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If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: 'That's where I wanted to go today!
When We Were Very Young Spring Morning l. 17 (1924) -
Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.
De grap (1967) -
Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.
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It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
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It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.
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Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.
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Last night, above the whistling wind, I heard the welcome rain, — A fusillade upon the roof, A tattoo on the pane: The keyhole piped; the chimney-top A warlike trumpet blew.
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Like sailors, we cannot change the weather or the direction of the wind. But we change the direction of our sails.
The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Five, The Second Question: Charity and Welfare -
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil spill happened. It seemed like it sucked the wind out of the whole health care debate.
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No wind favors him who has no destined port.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Nothing's better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you, and your friends beside you.
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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
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