Quotes about wind
A collection of quotes on the topic of wind, likeness, blow, timing.
Quotes about wind
“When the snow fall
and the white winds blow,
the lone wolf dies
but the pack survives.”
George Raymond Richard Martin (1948) American writer, screenwriter and television producer
George Orwell book Politics and the English Language
"Politics and the English Language" (1946)
Context: Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
In some of the manuscripts, the books begins with this epigram (Owen Gingerich, The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, American Institute of Physics, 1993, p. 55).
Almagest
Anton LaVey book The Satanic Bible
The Satanic Bible (1969)
“I like the wind because you can’t buy it.”
Gianni Agnelli (1921–2003) Italian businessman
Gianni Agnelli quotes http://hespokestyle.com/mens-style-advice/gianni-agnelli-quotes/ hespokestyle.com
1988
“It’s an ill wind as blows nobody no good, as I always say. And All’s well as ends Better!”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”
Dolly Parton (1946) American singer-songwriter and actress
“Winter solitude-
in a world of one colour
the sound of the wind.”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
I Just Can't Stop Loving You
Bad (1987)
Helena Bonham Carter (1966) British actress
Interview on Cinema.com, 2001 http://www.cinema.com/articles/547/planet-of-the-apes-interview-with-helena-bonham-carter.phtml
Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer
Variant: If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.
Source: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989), p. 233.
“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”
William Shakespeare book The Passionate Pilgrim
Source: The Passionate Pilgrim
“A great wind is blowing and that either gives you imagination… or a headache.”
Catherine the Great (1729–1796) Empress of Russia
As quoted in Daughters of Eve (1930) by Gamaliel Bradford, p. 192
Variant: A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
“O lost,
And by the wind grieved,
Ghost,
Come back again.”
Thomas Wolfe book Look Homeward, Angel
Source: Look Homeward, Angel (1929), p. 3
Context: A stone, a leaf, an unfound door; of a stone, a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces. Naked and alone we came into exile. In her dark womb we did not know our mother's face; from the prison of her flesh we come into the unspeakable and incommunicable prison of this earth. Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father's heart? Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone? O waste of loss, in the hot mazes, lost, among bright stars on this most weary unbright cinder, lost! Remembering speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When? O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again.
“I chose none to ask
why the wind was blowing there
chasing the fogs”
Suman Pokhrel (1967) Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist
<span class="plainlinks"> Khorampa https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/khorampa/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry
“If you don't have ability, you wind up playing in a rock band.”
Buddy Rich (1917–1987) Jazz drummer and bandleader
“The wind is rising! . . . We must try to live!”
Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher
As translated by by C. Day Lewis
Variant translations:
The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live.
Charmes ou poèmes (1922)
Context: The wind is rising!... We must try to live!
The huge air opens and shuts my book: the wave
Dares to explode out of the rocks in reeking
Spray. Fly away, my sun-bewildered pages!
Break, waves! Break up with your rejoicing surges
This quiet roof where sails like doves were pecking.
Enya (1961) Irish singer, songwriter, and musician
Song lyrics, A Day Without Rain (2000)
Source: da Pilgrim, n.° 9
“Your love is like the wind… you cant see it, but you can feel it…”
Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember
Variant: Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.
Source: A Walk to Remember
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
July 1890, page 313
(From Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Second Series (1844) "Essay VI: Nature": "the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.")
John of the Mountains, 1938
Context: It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never seem so to me. I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker
Source: J.M.W. Turner
Tony Kushner (1956) American playwright and screenwriter
Source: Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
Henry Beston (1888–1968) American writer
Source: The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
“O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?”
Dante Alighieri book Purgatorio
Canto XII, lines 95–96 (tr. C. E. Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
William Sharp (writer) (1855–1905) Scottish writer
From the Hills of Dream, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Dante Alighieri book Purgatorio
Canto XI, lines 100–102 (tr. C. E. Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
This quote has been attributed to Mark Twain, but the attribution cannot be verified. The quote should not be regarded as authentic. — Twainquotes http://www.twainquotes.com/Discovery.html <br class="br">Actually from the 1990 book P. S. I Love You' https://books.google.com/books?id=5OORXU6rlGIC&q=bowlines#v=onepage&q=bowlines&f=false' by H. Jackson Brown. <br class="br">Misattributed
Dante Alighieri book Inferno
Canto V, lines 28–30 (tr. Charles S. Singleton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
Elliot Rodger (1991–2014) American spree killer
My Twisted World (2014), Thoughts at 19, Longing
Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929) Filmmaker and comics writer
So I understood that if a ship crosses the sea without a purpose, it will arrive at no port. What prevents life from devouring us is having a purpose. The higher it is, the further it will carry us...
Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
Henry Beston book The Outermost House
p. 57: Ch. 3 http://books.google.com/books?lr=&id=edhCAAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+three+great+elemental+sounds+in+nature+are+the+sound+of+rain+the+sound+of+wind+in+a+primeval+wood+and+the+sound+of+outer+ocean+on+a+beach%22&pg=PA57#v=onepage <br class="br">The Outermost House, 1928
Emperor Gaozu of Han (-256–-195 BC) founding emperor of the Han Dynasty (256 BC - 195 BC)
Translated by Burton Watson
大風歌 Song of the Great Wind
Muhammad al-Baqir (677–733) fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams
Muhammad Kulayni, Usūl al-Kāfī - Book of Faith and Infidelity, vol.3, p. 202 & vol.2, p. 316
“Once I moved about like the wind. Now I surrender to you and that is all.”
Geronimo (1829–1909) leader of the Bedonkohe Apache
Statement to General George Crook (25 March 1886), as quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970) by Dee Brown
John Cage (1912–1992) American avant-garde composer
Quote of John Cage, in: 'The Future of Music: Credo' (1937); in: 'Silence: lectures and writings by Cage, John', Publisher Middletown, Conn. Wesleyan University Press, June 1961, V.
1930s
Adi Shankara (788–820) Hindu philosopher monk of 8th century
Source: Atma Bodha (1987), p. 98-101: Quote nr. 52 - 54.
Context: Though he lives in the conditionings (Upadhis), he, the contemplative one, remains ever unconcerned with anything or he may move about like the wind, perfectly unattached.
On the destruction of the Upadhis, the contemplative one is totally absorbed in "Vishnu", the All-pervading Spirit, like water into water, space into space and light into light.
Realise That to be Brahman, the attainment of which leaves nothing more to be attained, the blessedness of which leaves no other blessing to be desired and the knowledge of which leaves nothing more to be known.
Raymond Chandler book The Big Sleep
Source: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 32, Phillip Marlowe
Context: 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. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was. But the old man didn't have to be. He could lie quiet in his canopied bed, with his bloodless hands folded on the sheet, waiting. His heart was a brief, uncertain murmur. His thoughts were as gray as ashes. And in a little while he too, like Rusty Regan, would be sleeping the big sleep.
“Eros has shaken my mind,
wind sweeping down the mountain on oaks”
Sappho (-630–-570 BC) ancient Greek lyric poet
Stanley Lombardo translations, Frag. 26
Alexis Karpouzos movie We are the conversation
The film ''We are the conversation'', gathers together the most famous poems and poets from all over the world. It is a celebration of our linguistic diversity and a reminder of our commonalities and the fundamental role verbal art plays in human life around the world.
Alexis karpouzos
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound.”
Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
Source: Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest
"The Evolution of Chastity" (February 1934), as translated in Toward the Future (1975) edited by by René Hague, who also suggests "space" as an alternate translation of "the ether."
Variants:
"One day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity" — after all the scientific and technological achievements — "we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
As quoted by R. Sargent Shriver, Jr. in his speech accepting the nomination as the Democratic candidate for vice president, in Washington, D. C. (8 August 1972); this has sometimes been published as if Shriver's interjection "after all the scientific and technological achievements" were part of the original statement, as in The New York Times (9 August 1972), p. 18
What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.
As translated in The The Ignatian Tradition (2009) edited by Kevin F. Burke, Eileen Burke-Sullivan and Phyllis Zagano, p. 86
Love is the only force which can make things one without destroying them. … Some day, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
As quoted in Seed Sown : Theme and Reflections on the Sunday Lectionary Reading (1996) by Jay Cormier, p. 33
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, humanity will have discovered fire.
As quoted in Fire of Love : Encountering the Holy Spirit (2006) by Donald Goergen, p. 92
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
As quoted in Read for the Cure (2007) by Eileen Fanning, p. v
Variant: Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Context: What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them. And so we cannot avoid this conclusion: it is biologically evident that to gain control of passion and so make it serve spirit must be a condition of progress. Sooner or later, then, the world will brush aside our incredulity and take this step : because whatever is the more true comes out into the open, and whatever is better is ultimately realized. The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Henry Beston (1888–1968) American writer
Source: The Northern Farm: A Glorious Year on a Small Maine Farm
“It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
“For the winds that awakened the stars are blowing through my blood.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
“All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) British writer and philosopher
