Quotes 101 till 120 of 158.
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The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.
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The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.
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The last thing you want to do is play a long gig on a hot night, pass out, and wind up in a hospital emergency room.
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The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.
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The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.
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The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
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The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change, and the realist adjusts the sails.
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The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.
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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
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The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. [Gone With The Wind]
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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The sun doesn't shine at night, and wind power is highly variable. To meet our emissions goals, we're going to have to grasp every arrow in the quiver, and nuclear is one of those arrows.
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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 -
Their peace and their war
Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.Poems, 1913-1956
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