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“The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread."”

Two Might Names Given Wind Fame Patterns Bread Instance Thirty Motive Given Names

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Start a new fashion, wear your heart on your sleeveSometimes you reach what's real just by making believeUnafraid, unashamedThere is joy to be claimed in this worldYou even might wind up being glad to be you.”

Heart Real Might Joy Fashion Wind Glad Be You

Author:Stephen Schwartz

“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.”

“Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft Fly to the rearward of the world far off Into a limbo large and broad, since called The paradise of fools.”

World Might Sports Wind Fool Habit Paradise Broads Bulls Indulgence Pardon Hood Rags Beads Limbo

Author:John Milton

“Some must delve when the dawn is nigh; Some must toil when the noonday beams; But when might comes, and the soft winds sigh, Every man is a King of Dreams.”

Men Dream Might Wind Kings Every Man Dawn Toil Sigh Beam

Author:Clinton Scollard

“You could not presume that people were healthy. You could not presume that they would welcome the little nudges and jostlings of life. You had to behave as though everyone you met was walking a thin wire far above the earth, where the slightest wind might rock them off their balance and send them tumbling to the ground.”

People Littles Might Earth Rocks Wind Balance Walking Healthy Mets Welcome Behave Wire Nudge Tumbling

Author:Kevin Brockmeier

“You might say, 'What a dreadful day', without realizing that the cold, the wind, and the rain or whatever condition you react to are not dreadful. They are as they are. What is dreadful is your reaction, your inner resistance to it, and the emotion that is created by that resistance.”

Might Realizing Emotion Conditions Wind Cold Rain Reactions Resistance

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of England could not.”

Thinking Said Home Might Heaven Fate Wind Kings England Englishmen Cottages Orators

Author:John James Ingalls

“According to a recent study, depression is described as being the disease most destructive to humankind, largely because of the devastation it wreaks on our lives.... Yes, we could set up our minds to ignore our feelings and barricade ourselves from the winds and dust of the brain pattern. And we could become like robots, refusing to consider the passion and joys that could be ours. But then, we also might as well be dead.”

Mind Wells Feelings Might Joy Passion Brain Study Our Lives Wind Disease Patterns Dust Destructive Humankind Robots Devastation Barricades

Author:G. Frank Lawlis

“I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.”

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures

“And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights and all the moons. To be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the centre of a circle. However much things may appear to change-the sea may shift from whisper to rage, the sky might go from fresh blue to blinding white to darkest black-the geometry never changes. Your gaze is always a radius. The circumference is ever great. In fact, the circles multiply. To be a castaway is to be caught in a harrowing ballet of circles.”

May Two Facts Might Night Black White Sea Sky Wind Moon Blue Caught Rage Circles Ballet Centre Never Change Geometry Radius Castaway

Author:Yann Martel

“Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.”

Source: Charles Dickens: The Complete Christmas Novels & Tales (Illustrated): 30 Classics in One Volume: A Christmas Carol, The Battle of Life, The Chimes, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree, Doctor Marigold, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations and more

“Come let us mock at the good That fancied goodness might be gay, And sick of solitude Might proclaim a holiday: Wind shrieked and where are they?”

Might Wind Gay Solitude Goodness Sick Holiday Ridicule Mock

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“It was leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad, and the collapse of imperial Communism. Great nations have responsibilities to lead, and we should always be cautious of those who would lower our profile, because they might just wind up lowering our flag.”

Should Home Might Strong Nations Leadership Responsibility Influence Wind Communism Flags Collapse Cautious Profile Great Nations Be Cautious

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.”

Way Looks Art Play Might Energy Roles Wind Source Majors Alternatives Batteries Lithium

Author:Saul Williams

“As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.”

Wells Might Waiting Land Wind Republican Down And Fairy Idle

Book:Thomas Davis: Selections from His Prose and Poetry

Source: Thomas Davis: Selections from His Prose and Poetry

“As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything.”

Ifs Hard Might Ready Wind Ought Stones Charity Yield Touching Leafs Flexible Invincible Reeds Adamant

Book:A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians

Source: A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians

“Or thou might'st better listen to the wind, Whose language is to thee a barren noise, Though it blows legend-laden through the trees.”

Might Language Tree Wind Blow Noise Thee Legends Barren

Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)

“"What is my job on the planet?" is one question we might do well to ask ourselves over and over again. Otherwise, we may wind up doing somebody else's job and not even know it. And what's more, that somebody else might be a figment of our own imagination, and maybe a prisoner of it as well.”

Knows Wells May Might Jobs Asks Imagination Planets Wind Prisoner Figments

Book:Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

“What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness.”

Men May Long Doe Might Grows Wind Summer Infinite Regard Fortune Goods Comes And Goes Momentary

Book:Nature and Other Essays

Source: Nature and Other Essays

“The danger is that you can wind up doing tourist pictures. I want to see it fresh and see the little bits of everyday life that a native might take for granted, but that are special to the place, while at the same time, not taking a picture that would be a tourist cliché.”

Want Littles Might Would Be Bits Special Danger Wind Little Bit Everyday Granted Native Everyday Life Tourists You Can Win

Author:Stephen Shore

“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.”

“You can never capture a person in picture, never. You might get an interesting expression or gesture. I almost never research a picture subject ahead of time. I think Karsh is full of baloney. Can you imagine spending a whole week out in La Jolla with Jonas Salk soaking up his ambiance, then wind up making him look as if he's in the studio in Ottawa with his thumb under his chin?”

Ifs Thinking Looks Persons Whole Might Interesting Imagine Week Subjects Expression Wind Research Studios Spending Capture Gestures Thumbs Chins Ahead Of Time Soaking Baloney Ottawa Ambiance

Author:Duane Michals

“I certainly never feel discouraged. I can't myself raise the winds that might blow us or this ship into a better world. But I can at least put up the sail so that when the winds comes, I can catch it.”

World Feels I Can Might Wind Raises Blow Ships Sail Discouraged

Author:E. F. Schumacher

“You might say, well, aren't people saying that about wind and solar today? Not really. Only in the super-narrow sense that the capital costs per output, when the wind is blowing, is slightly lower.”

People Wells Might Today Wind Cost Output

Author:Bill Gates

“Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential. And to do that, I insist you throw caution to the wind, ignore the pleas of parents, coaches, spouses, and bosses to be "realistic." Realistic people do not accomplish extraordinary things because the odds against success stymie them. The best performers ignore the odds. I will show you that instead of limiting themselves to what's probable, the best will pursue the heart-pounding, exciting, really big, difference-making dreams-so long as catching them might be possible.”

“The Court stands against any winds that blow as havens of refuge for those who might otherwise suffer because they are helpless, weak, outnumbered, or because they are nonconforming victims of prejudice or public excitement.”

Might Suffering Havens Wind Weak Prejudice Victim Court Blow Excitement Refuge Helpless

Author:Hugo Black

“I suspect many readers might associate [Bob Dylan] with one of the shortest phases of his career, the time from 1963 to '65 when he wrote his most famous "protest songs," like "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin.'"”

Might Song Careers Wind Reader Protest Suspects Bob Phases Associates Dylan Protest Songs

Author:Jay Michaelson

“If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”

Ifs Knows Inspirational Might Funny Success Goal Business Wind Baseball Planning Setting Where You Are Time Travel Graduation Confusing Yankees Funny Inspirational Setting Goals New York Yankees Life Goal Future Plans Baseball Player Great Travel Inspiring Travel Isms Adventure And Travel Famous Baseball Achieving Your Goals Funny Motivational Great Baseball Inspirational Adventure Reaching Your Goals Roads Traveled Dreams And Goals Goals And Life Achieving Goals Inspirational Goal Where You Are Going Alice Adventures In Wonderland Inspirational Goal Setting Motivational Goal Focus On Goals Goals And Objectives Inspirational Adventure Time Motivation Goal Setting Goals And Motivation Deja Vu Travel Experience Goals Dreams Yankees Baseball Reaching Goals Goals And Ambitions Fork In The Road Greatest Baseball Right Road Road Life Clear Goals Future Planning Realistic Goals Your Dreams And Goals

Author:Yogi Berra

“Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main, That things might change or cease; tears his white hair, Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage, Catch in their fury and make nothing of; Strives in his little world of man to outscorn The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch, The lion and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs, And bids what will take all.”

Source: The plays of William Shakespeare

“Now it’s high watermark and floodtide in the heart and time to go. The sea-nymphs in the spray will be the chorus now. What’s left to say? Suspect too much sweet-talk but never close your mind. It was a fortunate wind that blew me here. I leave half-ready to believe that a crippled trust might walk and the half-true rhyme is love.”

Mind Believe Heart Might Left Walks Half Too Much Sea Ready Sweet Wind Fortunate Suspects Rhyme Chorus Spray Crippled Nymphs Sweet Talk

Book:The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes

Source: The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes

“They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost all alike; in God's gardens they keep still, like many, many intervals in his might and melody. Only when they spread their wings are they wakers of a wind: as if God with his broad sculptor- hands leafed through the pages in the dark book of the beginning.”

Ifs Stills Book Soul Sometimes Dream Hands Might Dark Sin Wind Pages Mouths Garden Longing Tired Wings Spread Melody Broads Intervals Sculptors Seamless

Book:The Book of Images

Source: The Book of Images

“I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywood - or the foul kitchen of a diner (Help Wanted) in a dismal ex-prairie state, with the wind blowing, and the stars blinking, and the cars, and the bars, and the barmen, and everything soiled, torn, dead.”

Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

“If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.”

Ifs May Might Action Desire Chance Wind Scene Moved Hunger Blow Impulse Thirst Confined

Book:Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus

“When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of passing through the X-ray scanner. The laptops roll merrily down the belt, while I’m instructed to stand aside and open my bag. To me it seems like a normal enough thing to be carrying, but the typewriter’s declining popularity arouses suspicion and I wind up eliciting the sort of reaction one might expect when traveling with a cannon. It’s a typewriter,’ I say. ‘You use it to write angry letters to airport security.”

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“We clear the harbor and the wind catches her sails and my beautiful ship leans over ever so gracefully, and her elegant bow cuts cleanly into the increasing chop of the waves. I take a deep breath and my chest expands and my heart starts thumping so strongly I fear the others might see it beat through the cloth of my jacket. I face the wind and my lips peel back from my teeth in a grin of pure joy.”

“One might think that a boy who was out in the snow for so long would get cold, but Max was not. He was warm, partly because he had on many layers, and partly because boys who are part wolf and part wind do not get cold.”

Thinking Long Might Boys Wind Cold Warm Snow Layers Max

Book:The Wild Things

Source: The Wild Things

“You trap yourself sometimes, by thinking desire and need is love. Love is something far more precious, but something far more fragile. As fragile as one of our tiniest, most intricate, most delicately crafted toys. Hold on to it too tightly, and it will crumble on your fingers, but hold on to it loosely, and the wind might blow it away and shatter it on the cold ground. Listen to the voice comes from your heart, but be absolutely sure the voice comes from your heart.”

Thinking Needs Heart Sometimes Might Desire Voice Love Is Wind Cold Fingers Blow Fragile Toys Traps Intricate

Author:Virginia C. Andrews

“A storm was brewing. The wind has picked up and a mass of purple clouds was coming in from the West. It felt good to have my hair whipping around my head. I thought it might feel good to have hail beat down on me. Sometimes storms outside are the only relief for storms inside.”

Feels Sometimes Might Felt Wind Hair Mass Beats West Clouds Storm Feel Good Relief Purple Hail Brewing Whipping

Author:Elizabeth Chandler

“Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee!”

Life Should Heart Done Might Night Sea Wind Luxury Thee Tonight Compass Eden Port Rowing Moors Wild Nights

Book:Dickinson

Source: Dickinson

“I gasp, because Isn't that just exactly what I've been doing too: writing poems and scattering them to the winds with the same hope as Gram that someone, someday, somewhere might understand who I am, who my sister was, and what happened to us.”

Writing Might Happened Wind Who I Am Someday My Sister Writing Poems

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere