Best wind & fall Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.”

Want Action Used Fall Water Air Wind Driven Instance Germany Sail Holland Velocity Windmills Falling Water

Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“When a tree has been transplanted, though fierce winds may blow, it will not topple if it has a firm stake to hold it up. But even a tree that has grown up in place may fall over if its roots are weak.”

Ifs May Has Beens Fall Tree Strength Wind Roots Weak Blow Firm Stakes Fierce

Book:The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

Source: The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

“When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights.”

Years Light Turns Fall Wind Bells Old Year

Book:Quiet Dell: A Novel

Source: Quiet Dell: A Novel

“It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet;Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit.The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever,But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather.”

Ifs Hands Fall Hours Break Wind Glasses Profit Blow Weather Honey Bloody Day To Day

Author:Louis MacNeice

“Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.”

Suffering Turns Fall Wind Habit Balls Great Men Exception Strings Slips Rooted Lapses New Habits Winding Up

Book:The Heart of William James

Source: The Heart of William James

“We're just a fragile team right now. It seems like when we have a little bit of adversity, when something goes wrong, you can feel it on the bench, it kind of sinks. Unless we get a goal or something really positive happens, it's tough. I think falling out of the playoff race takes the wind out of your sails for sure.”

Thinking Feels Kind Littles Seems Happens Fall Bits Goal Race Team Wind Right Now Little Bit Tough Adversity Fragile Sail Benches Playoffs Really Positive

Author:Wes Walz

“The banks themselves were doing business on capitals three-fourths of which were fictitious. This fictitious capital... is now to be lost, and to fall on somebody; it must take on those who have property to meet it, and probably on the less cautious part, who, not aware of the impending catastrophe, have suffered themselves to contract, or to be in debt, and must now sacrifice their property of a value many times the amount of the debt. We have been truly sowing the wind, and are now reaping the whirlwind.”

Has Beens Wisdom Values Fall Three Politics Lost Economy Sacrifice Wind Amount Property Debt Liberalism Contracts Catastrophe Cautious Sowing Whirlwind

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.”

“If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.”

Ifs Men Persons Light Fall Evil Wind Fool Pure Innocent Dust Thrown Offense Fall Back Innocent Person

Book:The Dhammapada

Source: The Dhammapada

“Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.”

Long Night Fall Walks Wind Cold Return Rain Mark Grey November Oaks Bronze Cold Night

Author:Gladys Taber

“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

“However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human life. Everywhere the spirit of some sad power seems to direct the time; it hides from us the blue heavens, it makes the green wave turbid; it walks through the fields, and lays the damp ungathered harvest low; it cries out in the night wind and the shrill hail; it steals the summer bloom from the infant cheek; it makes old age shiver to the heart; it goes to the churchyard, and chooses many a grave.”

Source: Endeavors After the Christian Life: Discourses

“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

“The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.”

Fall Force Greater Wind Higher Lows Towers Lofty

Author:Horace

“O Prosperina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon; daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength--a malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one.”

Kind Eye Dies Fall Wind Flower Breaths Dare All Kinds March Pale Crowns Violet Incidents Lilies Maids Wagons Malady Unmarried Daffodil

Author:William Shakespeare

“It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black.”

Stills Hard Light Fall Black Nature White Morning Air Wind Cold Garden Window Gates Thursday Snowfall

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“It's good to have a fear of heights. I mean, it's kind of crazy not to because if you just lean out a little bit and there's a gust of wind or somebody bumps you or something and you fall, you're splat.”

Ifs Kind Mean Littles Fall Bits Crazy Wind Little Bit Height Bumps

Author:Chris Hadfield

“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

“How can you tell drops not to fall when rain exists.... How can you tell leaves not to fall when wind exist.... And how can you tell me not to fall in love when you exist...”

Love Fall Wind Rain Falling In Love

Author:Vikram

“Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into peace, That my old care may cease.”

May Care Fall Compassion Fire Wind Wave Cease Harmonious Great Power Choir Windy Old Car

Book:The Major Works

Source: The Major Works

“The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.”

Knows Fall Wind Fruit Blow Esteem Fixed Ripe Transience Ripe Fruit

Book:Essays, lectures and orations

Source: Essays, lectures and orations

“Night is falling. The gods have left us for those who please them better. Our time in the world is passed, and we are as wasted as the wind against the mountains. Shadows are falling, the gods have left us.”

World Night Fall Left Wind Please Mountain Shadow Our Time Apocalypse

Author:Jim Grimsley

“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.”

“Does sound have rhythm? Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does sound come and go like wind?”

Doe Fall Sound Wind Ocean Rhythm Comes And Goes Rise And Fall

Book:Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love

Source: Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love

“Wind is what happens when air falls in love with itself.”

Happens Fall Air Wind Falling In Love

Book:The Lava in My Bones

Source: The Lava in My Bones

“When the wind stops, kite falls but bird flies; because bird did not borrow the wind when rising!”

Fall Wind Bird Rising Kites

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody is Gabriel Garcia Marquez or James Joyce. A lot of people like to pretend that they are, and they wind up not giving people a good read or enlightening them.”

People Giving Sometimes Fall Wind Falling In Love Sentences Construction Enlightening Gabriel Joyce Good Reads Marquez Garcia Marquez

Author:James Patterson

“Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.”

Fall Wind Mountain Shakes Leafs Oaks

Author:Sappho

“I built a leprechaun trap that was made to look like a tiny hotel. There was a ramp where the leprechaun could walk into the hotel, see a Lego pot of gold on the other side, try to reach it, fall through a trap door, go through a tube, wind up in a biscuit tin, and be trapped. My mom, encouraging my madness, told me that the leprechaun might escape and that I needed a shot glass of whiskey down there to keep him occupied while he was in there.”

“Sometimes you come to a fall and sometimes you come to white water. Your rowing has to adapt to the situation. You can't do the same stroke coming down a small stream as you would coming down Niagara Falls. Even if you're only rowing down a stream, different things happen: maybe the wind changes, maybe the current, and suddenly everything's different. So gently is really important. Don't power yourself or blast through; rock with the way things are.”

Ifs Way Important Different Sometimes Happens Fall Water White Situation Rocks Wind Currents Things Happen Streams Different Things Strokes Blast Rowing Niagara Niagara Falls White Water

Author:Bernie Glassman

“I like to be a little more difficult to nail down that that just inside myself, but when someone's motivations, even if they wind up falling in one side or the other of the debate, when they're personal and also when they're masked by something that only the audience knows is really their motivation, that to me is just what I call entertainment.”

Ifs Knows Littles Motivation Fall Difficult Sides Audience Wind Entertainment Debate Nails

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night or when I'm driving to the grocery store are the one's I wind up writing about.”

Thinking Writing Ideas Character Night Fall Wind Stores Driving Pursue Coming Back Groceries Grocery Stores Falling Asleep

Author:Ann Patchett

“Teenagers falling off skateboards - funny. Nut shots - funny. Breaking wind - funny. The world cannot change those. Those three things are columns upon which humor is built.”

World Fall Three Wind Shots Built Teenager Nuts Three Things Columns Falling Off

Author:John Oliver

“How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls.”

Hands Fall Sound Attitude Our Lives Wind Sunset Strings Gestures Echoes Weary Compulsion Dolls Furious Ravel

Author:William Faulkner

“Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by”

Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

“Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away ere break of day Over the wood and mountain tall To Rivendell where Elves yet dwell In glades beneath the misty fell Through moor and waste we ride in haste And wither then we cannot tell With foes ahead behind us dread Beneath the sky shall be our bed Until at last our toil be sped Our journey done, our errand sped We must away! We must away! We ride before the break of day!”

Wells May Done Lasts Fall Behinds Break Journey Sky Wind Bed Mountain Waste Rain Blow Woods Halls Tall Dread Toil Foe Haste Misty Errands Moors Sped

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.”

Source: Hemingway's Paris

“O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?”

Humans Littles Fall Born Race Wind Human Race Divine Comedy

Book:The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri

Source: The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri

“Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be the fathomless air; my body will sink endlessly and decay and dissolve in the wind generated by the fall, which is infinite.”

Body Hands Fall Air Wind Infinite Graves Decay Pious

Book:Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

“The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward. [...] The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain.”

Way Made Seems Moving Fall Girl Sound Walks Tree Wind Rain Fixed Dry Autumn Overhead Pavement Autumn Leaves Leaves In The Wind

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish - a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow - to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested... Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll.”

“The thread has snapped. No sound even to mark the breaking let alone the fall. That long anticipated disintegration, when the darkest angel of all, the horror beyond all horrors, sits at last upon my chest, permanently enfolding me in its great covering wings, black as ink, veined in Bees' purple. A creature without a voice. A voice without a name. As immortal as my life. Come here at long last to summon the wind.”

Long Lasts Fall Names Sound Black Voice Wind Horror Creatures Angel Mark Wings Immortal Chests Bees Thread Ink Purple Covering Disintegration

Book:Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves

Source: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves

“External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.”

Littles Purpose Fall Influence Wind Cold Rain Warm Snow Weather Heat Warmth Chill Interesting Characters Scrooge Christmas Carol Heat And Cold

Book:A Christmas Carol

Source: A Christmas Carol

“The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.”

Fall Freedom Wind Rain Clouds

Book:The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry

Source: The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry

“Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.”

People Running Turns Fall Stars Path Air Wind Guides Defined Leafs Inspirational Running Falling Leaves

Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

“February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring. Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas, Race through the noice of bells and wheels To where the ink and all you grieving Are muffled when the rainshower falls. To where, like pears burnt black as charcoal, A myriad rooks, plucked from the trees, Fall down into the puddles, hurl Dry sadness deep into the eyes. Below, the wet black earth shows through, With sudden cries the wind is pitted, The more haphazard, the more true The poetry that sobs its heart out.”

Writing Heart Shows Eye Earth Fall Black Race Tree Sadness Cry Tears Wind Six Spring Grieving Dry Wheels Bells Wet Shed Ink Falling Down Blackness February Puddles Pears Charcoal Haphazard Slush

Author:Boris Pasternak

“He reached up t0 grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. Never have tampon strings seemed so beautiful as they rolled up and down with the wind, landing on the ground and then twirling and floating up again, falling and rising and falling and rising.”

Beautiful Fall Wind Rising Strings Floating Up And Down Washing Landing Twirling Tampons

Book:An Abundance of Katherines

Source: An Abundance of Katherines

“The wind picks up. It sends leaves scurrying for cover until a softer breeze blows through, settling them down again as if to say, Shhh, there, there, it's all right. One leaf still dances in the air. It spins higher and higher, defying gravity and logic, stretching for something just out of reach. It shall have to fall, of course. Eventually. But for now, I hold my breath, willing it to keep going, taking comfort in its struggle.”

Ifs Stills Fall Courses Struggle Air Willing Wind Higher Comfort Picks Logic Breaths Blow Settling Keep Going Gravity Leafs Breeze Stretching Defying Defying Gravity

Book:Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

“Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you- not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again?”

Ifs Helping Mother Fall Realizing Loses Known Wind Balance Husband Picks Expected Violent Your Husband Pick Yourself Up

Author:Amy Tan

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