Quotes with wind-blown

Quotes 141 till 158 of 158.

  • Raymond Chandler What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Abraham Cahan What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Henry Ford When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Bonnie Tyler When I did the video for 'Holding Out For A Hero,' we filmed that on top of the Grand Canyon, and that was quite frightening. I was close to the edge, and there was a helicopter hovering about, creating a lot of wind, and I was nervous I was going to fall off.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Louise Erdrich When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr When you can't change the direction of the wind - adjust your sails.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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  • Buddha Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Christina Rossetti Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Sophocles Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Alighieri Dante Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Lord George Byron Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bob Dylan You don't need a weather man
    To know which way the wind blows.
    Subterranean Homesick Blues
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Dan Dierdorf You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you're battling with everything you have. That's the real fun of the game.
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  • Jim Rohn You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Brian P. Cleary You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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  • Thomas Fuller Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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