Quotes with wind-blown

Quotes 81 till 100 of 158.

  • Bhagavad Gita O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Ada Cambridge O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?.
    Ada Cambridge
    English-born Australian writer (1844 - 1926)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Seneca Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Booth Tarkington Out of the north Atlantic a January storm came down in the night, sweeping the American coast with wind and snow and sleet upon a great oblique front from Nova Scotia to the Delaware capes.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • John Bright Popular applause veers with the wind.
    John Bright
    British politician (1811 - 1889)
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  • James Russell Lowell Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair.
    Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere.
    We've got one last chance to make it real, to trade in these wings on some wheels.
    Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks.
    Born To Run (1975) Thunder Road
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • William Golding Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
    William Golding
    British writer (1911 - 1993)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox 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
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Bjork 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.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
    Ever the Winds of Chance (1983)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Orville Wright Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas.
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  • John Ruskin Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • John Ruskin Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Ben Stein The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Lord George Byron The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Samuel Johnson The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ronald Laing The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Bayard Taylor The clouds are scudding across the moon, A misty light is on the sea; The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune, And the foam is flying free.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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