Quotes with wind-blown

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  • Annie Dillard There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Bill McKibben 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.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • James Russell Lowell There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bliss Carman There paused to shut the door
    A fellow called the Wind,
    With mystery before,
    And reticence behind.
    At the Granite Gate
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Bayard Taylor 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.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Bill Engvall There's a reason God didn't give me this success in my 20s, because I'd have blown it.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • George Borrow 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?
    George Borrow
    English writer of novels and travel books (1803 - 1881)
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  • Barry Cornwall 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
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence 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.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • C. J. Cherryh 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
    C. J. Cherryh
    American writer (1942 - )
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  • Brad Feld 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.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Butch Trucks This is show business, and there's room for the shows and the personalities. But I think there's also room for music, for people to play music, and there seems to be an audience developing that's willing to go listen to music again, rather than just be blown away by drum machines and choreography.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • David Hare Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
    David Hare
    British Playwright, Director (1947 - )
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  • Arthur Murphy Thus far we run before the wind.
    Arthur Murphy
    Irish writer
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  • Antony Hewish Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.
    Antony Hewish
    British radio astronomer (1924 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Mark Twain Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ban Ki-moon We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen We're a long, long way from home, Bobbie;
    Home's a long, long way from us.
    I feel a dirty wind blowing;
    Devils and dust.
    Devils & Dust (2005) Devils & Dust
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Catullus What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water.
    Catullus
    Roman poet and lyricist (84 - 54)
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