Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Character Quotes, Wind Quotes

The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.

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The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes; And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.

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Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Wind Quotes , Giving Quotes

Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death; Wild and fast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his breath.

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I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.

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I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Wind Quotes

Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.

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Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Strength Quotes , Wind Quotes

The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

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We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Running Quotes , Wind Quotes

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Wind Quotes , Tears Quotes

If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to his great bidding I submit.

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Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about There's scarce a bush.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Night Quotes , Wind Quotes

If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Wind Quotes , Flood Quotes

For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

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But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Rain Quotes , Wind Quotes

An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music.

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And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Wind Quotes , Play Quotes

Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Wind Quotes , Foul Language Quotes

The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Wind Quotes , Alchemist Quotes