Quotes by Wind Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him. Cormac McCarthy horse wind men He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again. Everything uncoupled from its shoring. Unsupported in the ashen air. Sustained by a breath, trembling and brief. If only my heart were stone. Cormac McCarthy air heart wind By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray as far as the eye could see. They grouped in the road at the top of a rise and looked back. The storm front towered above them and the wind was cool on their sweating faces. They slumped bleary-eyed in their saddles and looked at one another. Shrouded in the black thunderheads the distant lightning glowed mutely like welding seen through foundry smoke. As if repairs were under way at some flawed place n the iron dark of the world. Cormac McCarthy eye dark wind The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries. Cormac McCarthy earth mother wind The moods of love are like the wind, Coventry Patmore mood wind life I would say that introverts make some of the best international philosophers. The less common attribute of the introverted lifestyle - a close societal connection, as such a connection disappears or changes in relevance as the currents of the winds change - leaves too much room for one's own cultural bias. Instead, introverts tend to turn inward, the laboratory of being and all its forms. This is the most accurate study of the individual human being, which is in turn, rather than those affected by cultural limitations, the most universal reflection of human understanding and human behavior. Criss Jami understanding reflection wind If you listen too much to advice, you may wind up making other people's mistakes. Croft M. Pentz mistake wind people My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the crickets and the crows and the wind are everyday occurrences that also happen to be magic. Cynthia Kadohata magic wind life Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery. Cynthia Ozick illusion wind memories Maybe life was like a sea, and all the people were like boats ... Everybody who was born was cast into the sea. Winds would blow them in all directions. Tides would rise and turn, in their own rhythm. And the boats - they just went along as best they could, trying to find a harbor. Cynthia Voigt blow wind life Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. Cyril Connolly sadness wind reality Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction. Cyril Connolly running wind reality 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. D. H. Lawrence college wind men Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time. D. H. Lawrence blow time wind And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it. D. H. Lawrence kites let-it-go wind Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind. D. H. Lawrence sea wind children Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it is bent flat, it gathers all the power of the wind without hampering its course. Like light-- In light, lit through by light, transformed into light. Like the lens which disappears in the light it focuses. Like wind. Like light. Just this--on these expanses, on these heights. Dag Hammarskjold light strong wind The Earth never ceases to spin. All life is dancing : The trees, the wind, the sea. Keep dancing for the rest of your life. Daisaku Ikeda dancing sea wind My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind. Daisy Ashford little-things wind ideas Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise. Dale Carnegie sunshine flower wind «1819202122232425262728»