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Day
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The "Wind-some"
Quote of the Day
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A great wind is blowing, and that
gives you either imagination or a headache.
-- Catherine II
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Botanists say that trees need the powerful March winds
to flex their trunks and main branches, so the sap is drawn up to nourish
the budding leaves. Perhaps we need the gales of life in the same way,
though we dislike enduring them.
--Jane Truax
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and
the winds long to play with your hair.
--Kahlil Gibran
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I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement battered by the winds
and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord
does not intend to repair.
--John Quincy Adams
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I've seen public opinion shift like the wind
and
put out the very fire it lighted.
--Rachel Field
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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it,
I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind
and
weather permitting.
--Laura Ingalls Wilder
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If the winds of fortune are temporarily
blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry
you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.
--Napolean Hill
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If you pay nervous attention to other people's opinions, maneuver
to obtain their indulgence and to stand high in their esteem, you will
be whisked about in their winds and you will
lose yourself.
--Jo Coubert?
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Insight is not one moment of revelation. The self is not a book
to be read; its pages are constantly turning in a high wind
and
only a word can be glimpsed here, a line there, from which, with persistence,
some idea of the whole can be pieced together.
--Jo Coubert?
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It is an all-too-human frailty to suppose that a favorable wind
will
blow forever.
--Rick Bode
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Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning
up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave
a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds
may bring . . .
--Henri Frederic Amiel
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One ship drives east and another drives west/ With the selfsame
winds
that flow./ 'Tis the set of sails and not the gales/ Which tells us the
way to go.
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Rough winds do shake the darling
buds of May.
--William Shakespeare
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The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about
by winds blowing from all four corners of
heaven.
--Martin Luther
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The older you get the stronger the wind
gets
-- and it's always in your face.
--Jack Nicklaus
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The substance of the winds is too
thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human
minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.
--John Muir
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The wind in a man's face makes
him wise.
--John Ray
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The winds and waves are always
on the side of the ablest navigators.
--Edward Gibbon
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The winds of grace blow all the
time. All we need to do is set our sails.
-- Ramakrishna
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Indoors or out, no one relaxes
In March, that month of wind and taxes,
The wind will presently disappear,
The taxes last us all the year.
--Ogden Nash
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There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man
himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind
to
know these things.
--Hal Borland
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Those who plow the sea do not carry the winds
in their hands.
--Publilius Syrus
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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind
raises
it higher.
--John Petit-Senn
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What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together,
the wind of accident sometimes collects in
a moment.
--Frederick von Schiller
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What to do when inspiration doesn't come: Be careful not to
spook, get the wind up, force things into
position. You must wait around until the idea comes.
--John Huston
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What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind
and
currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck; I pray you excuse me. I
have no time to listen to such nonsense.
-- Napoleon I
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When no wind blows, even the weathervane
has character.
--Stanislaw Lec
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When one has faith that the spring thaw will arrive, the winter
winds
seem to lose some of their punch.
--Robert L. Veninga
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Who has seen the wind? / Neither
you nor I: / But when the trees bow down their heads. / The wind
is
passing by.
--Christina Rossetti
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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that
blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
-- Dante
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Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable
for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn
is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in
fruits.
--Samuel Butler
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