W Quotes
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“Win through your actions, never through argument.”
“Win told me that one isn’t improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.”
Source: Married by Morning
“Win walked over to me. He held out his palm. In the middle of it was a single black sequin from the dress Scarlet had lent me. "You lost this," he said. I giggled, slightly embarrassed to be leaving bits of myself behind. "I'm shedding.”
Source: All These Things I've Done
“Win-win is a no-lose opportunity.”
Source: The Path to a Meaningful Life
“Win with ability, not with numbers.”
“Win with grace, lose with dignity!”
Source: Rich As A King: How the Wisdom of Chess Can Make You a Grandmaster of Investing
“Win with me or watch me win.”
“Win with your heart, not your head - win on emotion, not in logic; have a passion about what you do; nobody wants a boss, everybody wants a coach.”
“Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories.”
“Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.”
Source: To the Best of My Memory
“Win, lose or draw, you're all my cousins and I love you.”
“Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way; it's a better way, a higher way.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“Wina za błędy bolszewików spada ostatecznie na międzynarodowy proletariat i przede wszystkim na bezprzykładną uporczywą nikczemność niemieckiej socjaldemokracji, partii, która za czasów pokoju udawała, że maszeruje na czele światowego proletariatu, miała czelność pouczać świat i próbowała go prowadzić, partii, która we własnym kraju liczyła przynajmniej 10 milionów zwolenników obu płci, a teraz oto od 4 lat niczym sprzedajny średniowieczny żołdak na rozkaz klas panujących 24 razy każdego dnia przybija socjalizm do krzyża.”
Source: O rewolucji
“Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre shoots from Lycidas in a twentieth perusal. The portraits of Clarendon are mellowed by every year of reflection.”
Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature
“Wind against the goggles. Cool night air against her cheeks. She roars on into the night, hissing and clanking and smoking. She heads toward the glow of the big city, with sparks trailing behind her like dying moths.”
“Wind and breeze are separated today
Crimson twilight denies to fade away
Grass blades turn brown to match the soil
We pretend to smile at every turmoil”
“Wind and night and stars wheeled by as he winnowed us through the world, and the calluses of his hand scratched against my own fading ones before-
Before sunlight, not starlight, greeted me. Squinting at the brightness, I found myself standing in what was unmistakably a foyer of someone's house.
The ornate red carpet cushioned the one step I staggered away from him as I surveyed the warm, wood-panelled walls, the artwork, the straight, wide oak staircase ahead.
Flanking us were two rooms: on my left, a sitting room with a black marble fireplace, lots of comfortable, elegant, but worn furniture, and bookshelves built into every wall. On my right; a dining room with a long, cherrywood table big enough for ten people- small, compared to the dining room at the manor. Down the slender hallway ahead were a few more doors, ending in one that I assumed would lead to a kitchen. A town house.
...
This house... this house was a home that had been lived in and enjoyed and cherished.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Wind and solar power, energy efficient buildings, cars that go farther on a tank of gas, and other solutions can fight climate change. I know America can get on a more sustainable path - we just have to raise our voices and demand it.”
“Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand, I carried a message. I came to the puddle. I could not cross it. Identity failed me. We are nothing, I said, and fell. I was blown like a feather. I was wafted down tunnels. Then very gingerly, I pushed my foot across. I laid my hand against a brick wall. I returned very painfully, drawing myself back into my body over the grey, cadaverous space of the puddle. This is life then to which I am committed.”
“Wind and sun have tanned the growing girl's skin, her eyes resting on green hills are as clear as crystal. Nature is her mother and teacher, making her innocent, lively, and untamed as some small wild creature.”
Source: Border Town
“Wind and water raged with storms, wave and shingle were shackled in ice...until another year appeared in the yard as it does to this day, the seasons constant, the wonder of light coming over us. Then winter was gone, earth’s lap grew lovely...longing woke in the cooped-up exile for a voyage home.”
“Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay.”
Source: Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
“Wind blowing through hair is stimulating, however can term fatal to remove the head to remove the head forever. If you ride a motorcycle without helmet.”
“Wind blowing through hair is stimulating, however can turn fatal to remove the head to remove the head forever. If you Riding Motorcycle Without Helmet”
“Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.”
“Wind can make a pollen
Helpless at it's circumstance
but a human
Can choreograph it's own dance
Circumstances neutralised... consciousness #Mickeymized!”
“Wind chimes are also earthquake chimes.”
“Wind does not need translation. It speaks the language of men, of animals and birds, of rocks and trees and earth and sky and water. It does not eat or sleep, or take shelter from the weather. It is the weather. And it lives.”
Source: Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
“Wind either breaks a tree or teaches it to dance.”
“Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes:
The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze,
Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink and die.”
“Wind has the potential to produce many, many more jobs per kilowatt hour than coal. But the coal industry has tremendous political clout on Capitol Hill because of its alliance with the railroads... and with coal-burning utilities...”
“Wind howled through the night, carrying a scent that would change the world. A tall Shade lifted his head and sniffed the air. He looked human except for his crimson hair and maroon eyes. He blinked in surprise. The message had been correct; they were here. Or was it a trap?”
Source: Eragon
“Wind howled throught the night, carrying the scent that would change the world.”
“Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere Underneath my being is a road that disappeared Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead Overhead.”
“Wind in our hair, sun on our skin, school done for the day and stored safely on a shelf til tomorrow…damn, this being alive thing felt frickin awesome.”
Source: This Boy
“Wind indeed increases fire, but custom love.”
Source: The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
“Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.”
Source: The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt
“Wind is a plant's only chance to make music.”
“Wind is building up and whitecaps toss on the dark green water. After six and a half months of ice, the lake is nearly free and the mountain peaks can look at themselves in the mirror again.”
Source: One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
“Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.”
“Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is.”
“Wind is one of the greatest scams of the modern age.”
“Wind is part of the British Open. It is an examination and it took me a long time to pass the examination. Eighty per cent of the fellows out there have not passed the test.”
“Wind is renewable. Turbines are not.”
Source: Green Illusions
“Wind is the heart of the wave, the spoon of the sea and the angry bull of the ships. Without wind, there is no ardour, no agitation!”
“Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!”
Source: The Poems of Goethe, Translated in the Original Metres, with a Sketch of Goethe's Life. By E. A. Bowring
“Wind is the most skilled hairdresser! Find a windy weather and let your hair be shaped creatively!”
“Wind is the sacred music of the leaves; wherever and whenever the wind blows, over there leaves start their holy dancing frantically!”
“Wind is to us what money is to life on shore.”
Source: Wanderer