Best wind & faces Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire, Poor Robin is yet flowerless; but how gay With his red stalks upon this sunny day!”

Shows Faces Desire Growth Poor Wind Gay Spring Red Moved Blow Welcome March Splendid Sunny Lilies Stalking Robins Sunny Day Attire Welcome Spring

Book:Complete Poetical Works

Source: Complete Poetical Works

“A voice of greeting from the wind was sent; The mists enfolded me with soft white arms; The birds did sing to lap me in content, The rivers wove their charms, And every little daisy in the grass Did look up in my face, and smile to see me pass!”

Looks Littles Faces Voice Nature White Wind Arms Bird Rivers Grass Charm Look Up Lap Mist Daisies Greetings

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blowI been in some big towns an' heard me some big talk, but there is one thing I knowA woman's a two-face, a worrisome thing who'll leave ya to sing the blues in the night.”

Two Bigs Faces Night Four One Thing Heard Wind Towns Mobile Memphis

Author:Johnny Mercer

“Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night.”

Source: Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations

“A voice is in the wind I do not know A meaning on the face of the high hills Whose utterance I cannot comprehend. A something is behind them: that is God.”

Knows God Faces Voice Behinds Wind Hills Utterance

Book:The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

“The wind in a man's face makes him wise.”

Men Faces Wise Wind

Book:A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases

Source: A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases

“O happy, happy morning! O dear, familiar place! / O warm, sweet tears of Heaven, fast falling on my face! / O well-remembered, rainy wind, blow all my care away, / That I may be a child again this blissful morn of May.”

Wells May Children Care Faces Fall Heaven Morning Tears Sweet Wind Dear Blow Warm Familiar Remembered Rainy Happy Morning Familiar Places

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Sometimes we ask ourselves 'Why?' Why do I continue to smile, to give, to live? Why do I continue to stand, despite the ferocity of the wind that keeps blowing, that keeps slapping against my face, creating a pressure that says 'fall'? Why I don't I listen to those who call me a fool because I continue to love despite my hurt? I don't know what tomorrow brings; I don't know if my troubles will seize or if my sorrows will continue. But this much I do know - I will continue to hold out, I will continue to press on, until my blessing comes.”

Ifs Knows Giving Sometimes Motivational Faces Fall Asks Hurt Trouble Wind Fool Tomorrow Sorrow Blessing Creating Pressure Presses Despite Call Me My Blessing Ferocity Slapping Tomorrow Brings

Author:Shane Smith

“Outside the windows the day was bright: golden sunshine, blue sky, pleasant wind . . . I wanted to punch the happy day in the face, grab it by the hair, and beat it until it told me what the hell it was so happy about.”

Wanted Faces Hell Sky Wind Hair Beats Window Blue Golden Pleasant Sunshine Blue Sky Happy Day

Book:Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel

Source: Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel

“I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close.”

Source: The Pickwick Papers

“Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.”

Faces Sun Wind Labor

Author:Samuel Johnson

“I don't remember the first time I skated on ice, I was too young. I do remember falling in love with that wind-in-my-face feeling while speed skating.”

Firsts Feelings Remember Faces Young Fall Wind First Time Falling In Love Speed Ice Skating

Author:Bonnie Blair

“In my day a reporter who took an assignment was wholly on his own until he got back to the office, and even then he was little molested until his copy was turned in at the desk; today he tends to become only a homunculus at the end of a telephone wire, and the reduction of his observations to prose is commonly farmed out to literary castrati who never leave the office, and hence never feel the wind of the world in their faces or see anything with their own eyes.”

World Feels Littles Ends Eye Today Faces Wind Office Observation Journalism Prose Copies Desks Reporters Telephones Wire Reduction Assignments

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Weddings and funerals have so much in common (except that in Ireland funerals are more fun - better food, better drink): at both, our senses are sharpened and we register much more than usual - a striking face or hair-do, the wind's behaviour, a bird singing.”

Faces Fun Common Wind Hair Drink Singing Bird Senses Funeral Usual Ireland Behaviour Register

Author:Michael Longley

“Advance warning of Katrina's path was wrested from mute Nature by meteorological calculations and satellite imagery. God told no one of His plans. Had the residents of New Orleans been content to rely on the beneficence of God, they wouldn't have known that a killer hurricane was bearing down upon them until they felt the first gusts of wind on their faces. And yet, as will come as no surprise to you, a poll conducted by The Washington Post found that 80 percent of Katrina's survivors claim that the event only strengthened their faith in God.”

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“If you're driving your car and someone winds the window down and gives you the finger and calls you an asshole, instead of giving him the finger back and calling him an asshole back, you just pull a funny face, and he doesn't know how to react to that, because you're using different rules.”

Ifs Knows Giving Different Faces Know How Car Wind Calling Window Down And Fingers Driving Funny Face

Author:Steve Coogan

“Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Be free.”

Thinking Knows Feels Done Body Action Faces Wind Weakness Nonsense Spiritual Wisdom Superstitions Spit

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Whenever I throw caution to the wind I make sure I'm facing the right way so that it doesn't blow back and hit me in my face.”

Way Faces Wind Blow Right Way Caution

Author:Demetri Martin

“When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swollen face?”

Ifs Bigs Earth Faces Suffering Heaven Sea Wind Mad Rage Threatening Swollen

Book:Titus Andronicus: Third Series

Source: Titus Andronicus: Third Series

“It's not demons (who at least have a human face) but Hell itself that seems to be laughing inside me, it's the croaking madness of the dead universe, the spinning cadaver of physical space, the end of all worlds blowing blackly in the wind, formless and timeless, without a God who created it, without even its own self, impossibly whirling in the absolute darkness as the one and only reality, everything.”

World Humans Ends Self Reality Seems Faces Universe Space Darkness Laughing Hell Wind Madness Absolutes Demon Timeless Spinning Human Faces Cadavers

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“Anything that provokes a visceral or spiritual response and ignites my senses. Whether it's listening to the ocean, dancing to a song I adore, feeling the wind across my face, sampling a fantastic new dish, or witnessing a phenomenal show, if I experience it before I can even think about it, it makes me come alive.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Shows Feelings Faces Spiritual Song Alive Wind Listening Ocean Dancing Response Senses Fantastic Dishes Provoking Adore Phenomenal Ignite Visceral Sampling

Author:Grace Gealey

“I look back with gladness to the day when I found the path to the land of heart's desire, and thank Fate ceaselessly with a loud voice that she did not permit the town to sap all the years away while the heart was turning to wind-voices and flower-faces and the hands of kindly earth.”

Source: The Garden of Ignorance: The Experiences of a Woman in a Garden

“The thing about the summit region of Mount Washington, it can have areas that are flat and rolling. In those conditions, it's very difficult not to become disoriented, because it's not like you're on a face where you know what's up and what's down. You're on a flat surface. Every direction is the same in a white-out condition. And with wind speeds constantly changing direction, within a minute you have no idea where you are.”

Knows Ideas Faces Difficult White Minutes Conditions Wind Like You Areas Surface Speed No Idea Regions Flats Where You Are Rolling Summit

Author:Hugh Herr

“When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.”

Ifs Faces Winning Felt Sports Chance Morning Wind Rain Excellent My Time Sunday Trusted Brilliant Ideas Sunday Morning Wind And Rain

Author:Tom Kite

“I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.”

Feelings Faces Air Wind Hair Fresh Air Wind Blowing Stuntman Hair Blowing

Author:Evel Knievel

“Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.”

Long Faces Cities Wind Summer Spring England Shade June Comes And Goes County Louisiana New England Maple Wyoming

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.”

Age Faces Wind Stronger Aging Golf Old Age Your Face Getting Older Golf Course Great Golf Greatest Golf

Author:Pablo Picasso

“The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head... The autumn wind is a Raider, pillaging just for fun.”

Faces Song Fun Sea Wind Weather Hats Silver Autumn Beaten Pirate Raiders Just For Fun Autumn Wind Pillaging

Author:Steve Sabol

“In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.”

People Feels War Seems Pain Faces Universe Consciousness Sea Cry Wind Lays Mood Instant Isolation

Book:Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows

Source: Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows

“When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swoln face? And wilt thou have a reason for this coil? I am the sea; hark, how her sighs do blow! She is the weeping welkin, I the earth: Then must my sea be moved with her sighs; Then must my earth with her continual tears Become a deluge, overflow'd and drown'd: For why my bowels cannot hide her woes, But like a drunkard must I vomit them. Then give me leave, for losers will have leave To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues.”