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“Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Should May Made Lying Desire Wish Poor Silence Know How Stage Events Wind Hero Illusion Fellows Deeds Accomplish Pregnancy Chasing Chorus Straws

Book:The Dawn of Day

Source: The Dawn of Day

“The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.”

Thinking Looks Kind Stills Tree Wind Kings Forests Chairs Grandmother Old Trees Rocking Chairs Dozing

Author:Billy Wilder

“A slight wind shakes the seed-pods my thoughts are spent as the black seeds.”

Thinking Black Wind Seeds Thoughtful Shakes My Thoughts

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“My first big acting performance was in the Marilyn Monroe biography piece, and it required frontal nudity. I talked to Mira Sorvino, my co-star, about how nervous I was because I didn't know how my mom would react. She said, 'Can I be completely honest with you? I've seen your mom in interviews, and she seems pretty screwed up. I don't think there's much you could do to shock a broad like that.' And from that moment on it was big nipples to the wind!”

“I think what makes people ill a lot of the time is the belief that your thoughts are concrete and that you're responsible for your thoughts. Whereas actually - the way I see it - your thoughts are what the wind blows through your mind.”

People Thinking Way Mind Belief Wind Responsible Ill Blow Concrete

Author:Thom Yorke

“I have a thing about honesty; I think it's crucial to a relationship. Otherwise, one person holds all the power. It's healthy to be straightforward, and it turns out you can wind up weathering a lot. Knowing that everything is on the table - what you see is what you get - lends a sense of safety.”

Thinking Persons Turns Knowing Honesty Wind Healthy Safety Tables Crucial Straightforward You Can Win

Author:Jennifer Connelly

“I think there's a really great amount of potential for Hawaii to become an example of what's possible with renewable energy because there are so many renewable resources here: energy, solar energy, and wind energy. There's so much potential here.”

Thinking Energy Example Wind Amount Resources Really Great Hawaii Renewable Energy Solar Energy Renewable Resources Wind Energy

Author:Jack Johnson

“Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put them down, and simply write down what they do, say, or think.”

Thinking Needs Writing Character Wind Sitting Down And

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I think you get mentally ill being homeless. Most of the bag ladies wind up mentally ill pretty quickly - what people would call paranoid - because they are in such danger. I don't know if it's really paranoia because they are in great danger. Terrible things happen to them, and they lose everything. How could they not become at the very least severely depressed?”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Happens Loses Danger Wind Terrible Ill Things Happen Bags Homeless Terrible Things Paranoia Paranoid Mentally Ill

Author:Alix Kates Shulman

“Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.”

Thinking Ideas Real Subjects Wind

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon.”

Thinking Knows Love Mind Persons Important Simple Sky Special Wind Blue Clouds Storm Occasions Gentle Fascinating Horizon Pale Simple Things Blue Sky Reggae Every Occasion Storm Clouds

Author:Bob Marley

“I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in a museum. It's like finding a rare animal and putting it in the zoo.”

Thinking Art Happens Animal Wind Findings I Realized Museums Zoos

Author:Patti Smith

“I don't believe that Citizen Kane or Gone With the Wind, or any damn picture that you can name, would be better off in 3D. I think it's a gimmick. I find 3D distracting.”

Thinking Believe Would Be Names Gone Wind Citizens Don't Believe Damn Better Off Gimmicks Citizen Kane

Author:William Friedkin

“The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a reminder of the 40,000 generations of thinking men and women who preceded us, about whom we know almost nothing, upon whom our civilization is based.”

Thinking Knows Men Generations Wind Civilization Men And Women Reminders Whips Canyons Thinking Man

Book:Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

“You think the only people who are people, Are the ones who look and think the way you do, But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, You'll learn the things you never knew you never knew... You can own the Earth and still, All you'll own is earth until You can paint with all the colors of the wind.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Looks Stills Earth Walks Color Wind Paint Stranger Footsteps

Author:Stephen Schwartz

“Most writers begin with accounts of their first home, their family, and the town, often from quite a hostile point of view-love/hate, let's say. In a way, this stepping outside, in an attempt to judge enough to create a duplicate of it, makes you an outsider. . . . I think it's healthy for a writer to feel like an outsider. If you feel like an insider you get committed to a partisan view, you begin to defend interests, so you wind up not really empathizing with all mankind.”

“In the 70s, GEORGE CLINTON and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC and EARTH WIND & FIRE, we were very serious about our music and who we were trying to touch. I think that's why the music of the 70s has not died - because it has a rejuvenating quality to it.”

Thinking Trying Earth Quality Music Fire Serious Wind Musician Died Clinton Touching Seventies Parliament Rejuvenation

Author:Maurice White

“One of the reasons I think the population question is important, if we want to be as green as possible, any of our energy that is truly renewable is limited. Solar and wind are intermittent and they're so diffuse, it's difficult to harness them in a significant way. But one thing we could be doing is making it a law (like it is in Israel and Cyprus) to take every building eight stories or under and heat all of the water in those buildings with solar energy. It's absolutely simple and cheap technology.”

“Sometimes I think the Congress feels that if you only decided tomorrow to switch to wind power that in two years we'd be getting 80 percent of our electricity from wind power. It's nonsense. Normally it takes 20 to 30 years after a new technology is demonstrated and deployed before it powers even 15 or 20 percent of the grid. There's this long lag time, and we haven't even decided which directions to go.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Years Long Two Sometimes Technology Havens Wind Tomorrow Percent Decided Congress Nonsense Two Years Electricity New Technology Grids Lag Wind Power

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“With 1 million square miles of the Arctic melting unexpectedly this summer, these are warning signs that we have to act and act now. Our addiction to Middle Eastern oil obviously has security implications, and we think it's about time to be generating Eastern Washington wind energy instead of sending our money to the sheikhs.”

Thinking Energy Millions Middle Security Wind Summer Addiction Oil Miles Squares Warning Eastern Implications Melting Arctic Warning Signs Wind Energy

Author:Jay Inslee

“People tend to think about God more when the clock starts to wind down.”

People Thinking Wind Clock

Author:Charles Roven

“You women are all the same, if bed's all right, You think everything else can go to the wind. But if there's any infringement of your bed-rights, Then fair is foul and all hell's let loose.”

Ifs Thinking Hell Rights Wind Bed Fairs Foul Infringement

Author:Euripides

“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff...Basically what people want to hear is: I love you, you love me, the leaves turn brown, they fell off the trees, the wind is blowing, it got cold, you went away, my heart broke, you came back, and my heart was okay...Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. Most people wouldn't know good music if it came up and bit them on the ass...If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?”

“When we think of [John F. Kennedy], he is without a hat, standing in the wind and weather. He was impatient of topcoats and hats, preferring to be exposed, and he was young enough and tough enough to enjoy the cold and the wind of those times.... It can be said of him, as of few men in a like position, that he did not fear the weather, and did not trim his sails, but instead challenged the wind itself, to improve its direction and to cause it to blow more softly and more kindly over the world and its people.”

People Thinking Men World Said Enough Young Causes Enjoy Position Wind Cold Tough Standing Blow Weather Hats Exposed Sail Impatient

Author:E. B. White

“Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?”

Source: Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962

“If you have wind it becomes more difficult than you think.”

Ifs Thinking Difficult Wind

Author:Tiger Woods

“I think the acts today get too much money. I really do. They wind up blowing it all anyway. It's silly to give children that much money.”

Thinking Giving Children Today Too Much Wind Silly Blowing It

Author:Wolfman Jack

“When anyone hurts us, my wife and I sit in our Japanese sand garden and drink iced tea. There are five stone in the garden - for sky, wind, fire, water, and earth. We sit and think of five of the nicest things we can about the person who hurt us. If he hurts us a second time, we do the same thing. The third time, we light a candle, and he is, for us, dead.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Light Earth Water Hurt Fire Five Wife Sky Wind Drink Garden Stones Thirds My Wife Tea Sand Candle Third Time Iced Tea

Author:Red Skelton

“I hope I need not confess that a large part of my stock in trade consists of platitudes rescued from the cobwebbed shelves of yesterday... This borrowing and refurbishing of shop-worn goods, as a matter of fact, is the invariable habit of traders in ideas, at all times and everywhere. It is not, however, that all the conceivable human notions have been thought out; it is simply, to be quite honest, that the sort of men who volunteer to think out new ones seldom, if ever, have wind enough for a full day's work.”

Source: In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality

“I think guys wind up after a while not wanting another guy sleeping with the girl they're with. But eventually everyone wants something more. We all have that desire for something special, something committed. We all want to be The One.”

Thinking Want Desire Guy Girl Sleep Special Wind Committed Want Something Other Guys Something Special

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“There's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're all haunted by something, and some people manage to find a way to ride it out so that they don't wind up needing extra help. So I think that "mental illness," as a term, is garbage. Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something.”

People Thinking Way States Helping Term Wind Ill Illness Various Mental Illness Manage Extras Garbage Mentally Ill Extra Help

Author:John Darnielle

“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind or smoke, and saying it moreover in tones of pride and satisfaction? Is this then something to be said gaily? Is it not on the contrary something to be said sadly, as being the saddest thing in the world?”

Thinking World Said Soul Given Pleasure Wind Pride Satisfaction Contrary Smoke Tone Saddest

Book:Human Happiness

Source: Human Happiness

“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

“The wind of divine grace is always blowing. You just need to spread your sail. Whenever you do anything, do it with your whole heart concentrated on it. Think day and night, I am of the essence of that Supreme Being-Consciousness-Bliss. What fear and anxiety have I?”

Thinking Needs Heart Whole Night Consciousness Grace Divine Wind Anxiety Essence Spread Supreme Bliss Sail Day And Night Divine Grace Supreme Being

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.”

Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

“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

“We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of material less spectacular but gathered just as carefully hour by hour, in wind and drift, darkness and cold, was striven for in order that the world may have a little more knowledge, that it may build on what it knows instead of on what it thinks.”

Thinking Knows World May Littles Order Three Hours Darkness Wind Materials Cold Mass Weight Islands Traveled Fossils Spectacular Capes Embryos More Knowledge

Author:Apsley Cherry-Garrard

“I think there are a lot of people that lead worship don't really understand the weight of what they do. But I think it is all about leadership. It's how you lead people into understanding what this is about. But also the wind of God, the fresh Spirit of God has been amazing, and that is what has caused people to turn their hearts towards it. Worship music is the most popular thing in Christian music.”

People Thinking Heart Has Beens Christian Spirit Turns Understanding Wind Worship Music Is Weight Spirit Of God Christian Music Worship Music

Author:Chris Tomlin

“Obviously yeah, but our first album took us five years to put together, to get signed and to put it out, we had a lot of time to think about what we were doing. Black Sunday was like a whirl wind, we had to rush back to the studio after touring, but the last album we had a little longer, what like eight months?”

Thinking Years Firsts Littles Together Lasts Black Five Wind Months Yeah Albums Studios Eight Five Years Sunday Touring Time To Think

Author:B-Real

“Contemplation: I read a lot of books on philosophy and religion, and try to keep always growing in that part of my life, because without having a spiritual grounding, I think you can get really swayed by the winds of all the praise or the criticism; it's all very, kind of, up and down. Try to stay up and focused.”

Thinking Trying Kind Book Philosophy Spiritual Growing Wind Criticism Praise Focused Contemplation Up And Down Get Real Grounding Philosophy And Religion

Author:Kimbra

“The more I think about it, the more I realize that schools are just factories for turning out robots, that's all. They get you when your small and vulnerable and they take all the human parts away, bit by bit, until you're just a wind-up toy. Turn the key and set it running. And the toy goes to university, gets a job, settles down with someone nice.”

Thinking Humans Running School Jobs Turns Bits Realizing Nice Wind Keys University Vulnerable Settling Factories Toys Robots Settling Down

Author:Grant Morrison

“Wherever you go, there you are. Whatever you wind up doing, that's what you've wound up doing. Whatever you are thinking right now, that's what's on your mind. Whatever has happened to you, it has already happened. The important question is, "how are you going to handle it?" .... Like it or not, this moment is all we really have to work with.”

Thinking Mind Important Moments Happened Wind Right Now Wounds Handle Important Questions Thinking Right

Book:Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness meditation for everyday life

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness meditation for everyday life

“What Martin Shkreli will end up if he does wind up going to prison. I think that`s I think what shocks a lot of people, that this is perfectly legal.”

People Ifs Thinking Doe Ends Wind Prison Shock

Author:Joy-Ann Reid

“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

“One thing I've discovered is that I never think of something that didn't work out as just "something that didn't work out." I think so often with investigative work, things that initially look like failures wind up leading to your biggest stories.”

Thinking Looks Stories One Thing Wind Work Out

Author:Sarah Stillman

“I think most of us, as writers, have had experiences where you get edited and it doesn't feel like your voice at all. And so it's been nice to go through the experience of having a lot wind up on the cutting-room floor, and yet still feel that your voice is being - not purified, but made more yourself. I think that's a very rare thing.”

Thinking Feels Made Stills Voice Rooms Nice Cutting Wind Like You Edited Rare Things

Author:Sarah Stillman

“You could be attached to merely a description of a plant or a flower. Or a narrative of an event. Or rage at injustice. Isaiah and the other Hebrew prophets, in their rage, were being altogether attached - not at all detached, although as I think of the word "detachment," I also think of a sheet of paper, loose from its notebook, fluttering around somewhere in the wind trying to find its home again.”

Thinking Trying Home Events Wind Flower Paper Plant Injustice Rage Narrative Prophet Description Sheets Detachment Notebook Detached Hebrew Fluttering

Author:Gerald Stern

“What I wound up doing, which I think is really journalistically dubious, is changing the order of some of the things I did, so that the things I ended up struggling with the most wind up being two-thirds of the way in.”

Thinking Way Two Order Struggle Wind Thirds Wounds Dubious

Author:Joel Stein

“The way I would characterize what you said about me is I do try to say what I think as clearly as I can without first thinking, "Uh-oh, which way is the wind blowing and are people going to like this?"”

People Thinking Way Trying Firsts Said I Can Wind Wind Blowing

Author:Christy Clark

“I think that it is very interesting to write about a team because a team is a group of people who work in very close quarters and have very intense relationships so - in my days of playing sports, I was very rarely on a team that did not have it's own peculiar dynamic, and you wind up having very intense feelings for good and for bad about these people with whom you spend many hours a day.”

People Thinking Writing Feelings Sports Hours Interesting Groups Team Wind Intense Peculiar Quarters Very Interesting Playing Sports Intense Feelings

Author:Chad Harbach