Best Windmills Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Not enough youths fighting windmills. And the old are fearful, jaded or dead. Do not ask me what to do. I am just as cowardly as you. And do not tell me it is enough to speak the truth; that it is bravery enough. Every mountain leveled to the ground, every forest burned, every man, woman, and child who lost their shanties to arsonist fires were defended to the heavens—with words.”

Truth Youth Mountain Bravery Words Man Woman Child Burned Old Forest Cowardly Heavens Windmills Fires Youths Arsonist Windmill Shanties Fighting Windmills

Author:Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

“Don Quixotes! Stand aback from my windmill!”

Life Lessons Windmills

Author:Lara Biyuts

“This little piggy saved some water, This little piggy biked for sun, This little piggy used windmills, This little piggy used sun, And this little piggy squealed 'Re-re-recycle!' All the way home.”

Recycling Biking Windmills Green Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme Takeoff Sun Energy

Author:Jan Peck and David Davis illustrated by Carin Berger

“I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.”

Fighting College Windmills

Author:Bill Parcells

“A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.”

May Moments Light Happens Behinds Doors Effects Pure Longing Accidents Weather Dust Relish Barns Windmills Trivial Things

Book:The Renaissance: Studies of Art and Poetry

Source: The Renaissance: Studies of Art and Poetry

“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

“There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a sick landscape. We tilt windmills in behalf of conservation in convention halls and editorial offices, but on the back forty we disclaim even owning a lance.”

Animal Land Pride Office Sick Shame Plant Landscape Forty Halls Conventions Conservation Behalf Editorials Plants And Animals Tilt Windmills

Book:A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“If one day I look out from my cabin's porch and see a row of windmills spinning in the distance, I won't curse them. I will praise them. It will mean we are finally getting somewhere.”

Looks Mean One Day Praise Distance Curse Spinning Porch Cabins Windmills

Author:David Suzuki

“The great thing about visual horror films is there's real potential for strong, beautiful imagery. It's the one genre that really lends itself to creating strong images. And I've always loved that idea of windmills - your mind aimlessly spinning.”

Mind Ideas Real Beautiful Film Strong Horror Creating Great Things Genre Visuals Imagery Spinning Horror Film Windmills

Author:Tim Burton

“There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation; their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape.”

Source: Dreams of elsewhere: the selected travel writings of Robert Louis Stevenson

“The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.”

Effort Slopes Windmills

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.”

Trying Art Different School Together Moving Stuff Rooms Style High School Jazz Contemporary Martial Arts Wrestling Flip Mixing Windmills Lunchtime

Author:Caity Lotz

“we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a windmill.”

Knows World Feelings Hell Tired Activism Our World Cynical Helpless Diseased Tilt Windmills

Book:Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye

Source: Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye

“I fought windmills with such heavy weapons that I risked dislocating my arm.”

Arms Weapons Heavy Activism Windmills

Book:The Education of Fanny Lewald: An Autobiography

Source: The Education of Fanny Lewald: An Autobiography

“We need to stop burning fossil fuels and utilize only wind, water, and solar power with all generation of power coming from individual or small community units like windmills, waterwheels, and solar panels. Sea transportation should be by sail...Air transportation should be by solar powered blimps when air transportation is necessary.”

“The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to do with either family or values, nor does it really have anything to do with homosexuals, abortionists, or pornographers. Those groups actually only serve as windmills to tilt at. The true agenda is power - power over the intellectually weak, emotionally immature, and ethically deficient Americans who are incapable of critical thinking and independent decision-making, and who are easily manipulated by the basest of human emotions - fear and the desire for revenge.”

“You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.”

Life Pairs Windmills

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill.”

Cheese Garlic Windmills

Author:William Shakespeare

“My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.”

Knows Littles Art Winning Know How Advice Habit Battle Customers Without You Best Advice Shipping Windmills Can't Live Without You

Author:Seth Godin

“This is what we have all come to Cannes for: for something different, experimental, a tilting at windmills, a great big pole-vault over the barrier of normality by someone who feels that the possibilities of cinema have not been exhausted by conventional realist drama.”

Feels Different Bigs Possibility Drama Cinema Barriers Conventional Exhausted Realist Normality Vaults Windmills Cannes Pole Vault

Author:Peter Bradshaw

“An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar!”

Mind Bells Jars Bell Jar Windmills Unfree

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Was it a good idea to spend taxpayer dollars on electric cars in Finland, or on windmills in China? Was it a good idea to borrow all this money from countries like China and spend it on all these various different interest groups?”

Ideas Different Country Interest Groups Car Dollars Various China Good Ideas Electric Taxpayers Interest Groups Finland Windmills Electric Car

Author:Paul Ryan

“There should be intensive research of all forms of clean energy - sun power, wind power, water power including wave power. In some places thermal energy is available. I stayed on a ranch which, with solar panels and two windmills, provided its own energy.”

Should Two Form Energy Water Sun Wind Research Clean Including Wave Available Clean Energy Windmills Solar Panels Wind Power Thermal Water Power

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.”

Hurt Windmills

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants”

Thinking Might Giants Windmills

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“You're looking, moment by moment and scene by scene, how you can tell the most interesting story. So, we had this great short and we knew that we had a story about a boy and his dog. Because we had that pure emotional core, we could go on crazy tangents and always come back to Victor and Sparky. When I wrote in stuff like Weird Girl and the cat poop, Dutch Day and the windmill, it felt like it was part of Tim's universe.”

Moments Stories Girl Universe Felt Stuff Interesting Boys Crazy Dog Emotional Goes On Scene Pure Cat Core Most Interesting Dutch Poop Windmills Interesting Stories Great Short

Author:John August

“To say that the vote fraud conspiracy theorists are tilting at windmills is an understatement. They're using a legitimate public process to pursue an agenda that is, at best, grasping at straws and, at worse, partisan.”

Process Vote Pursue Agendas Fraud Conspiracy Partisans Straws Grasping Theorists Understatement Windmills

Author:George Voinovich

“One of my favorite places is the Maldives, an all-Muslim nation in the Indian Ocean with a culture that stretches back 5,000 years. But since the highest point in the archipelago is a meter or two above sea level, even the next hundred are not guaranteed. They've committed to becoming the first carbon-neutral nation on Earth by 2020, building windmills as fast as they can.”

Years Firsts Two Earth Culture Next Nations Levels Sea Building Becoming Ocean Highest Hundred My Favorite Committed Indian Carbon Meter Favorite Places Windmills Maldives

Author:Bill McKibben

“I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that... it'd be that Don Quixote feeling, that I'd have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you've got to do it. That's the only way you can do things.”

Way Sometimes Feelings Can Do One Day Ambitious Outrageous Tilt Windmills

Author:Oliver Stone

“If you think about Don Quixote, Don Quixote is this guy who wants to live as if he was in a medieval chivalric romance, when actually he lives in sixteenth-century Spain, which is already going through secularization, industrialization, modernization. He goes out to kill a giant, and instead he collides with this huge windmill and injures himself and also damages the windmill. I think that's a metaphor for the collisions we all have over time, as our ideas of ourselves get out of synch with the historical moment.”

Ifs Thinking Want Ideas Moments Romance Guy Century Huge Historical Metaphor Giants Damage Spain This Guy Medieval Collision Collide Industrialization Windmills Modernization

Author:Elif Batuman

“Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.”

Winning Design Green Competition Features Umpires Windmills

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.”

Littles Function Conductor Wagner Windmills Berlioz

Author:Franz Liszt

“We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price.”

Energy Schemes Renewable Energy Windmills Wind Turbines

Author:James Lovelock

“To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel”

Men Stills Enough Gone Changed Wind Habit Abuse Windmills

Author:Victor Hugo

“Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.”

Battle Thirty Giants Forty Windmills

Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote

“Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.”

Said Gone Goes On Windmills Said Life

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.”

Knows Happens Environment Sea Environmental Collapse Environmentalism Windmills

Author:Bill Maher

“We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night.”

Knows Stills Light Night Instruments Storm Bows Pulling Lungs Newborn Kites Windmills

Author:Andrea Gibson

“We're going on a, um, windmill tour later this week." If I'd wanted to shut them all up, I'd definitely succeeded. They all looked stunned. Adrian spoke first. "I'm going to assume that means he's flying you to Amsterdam on his private jet. If so, I'd like to come along. But not for the windmills.”

Ifs Firsts Mean Wanted Week Assuming Flying Spokes Jet Stunned Amsterdam Sydney Sage Windmills Private Jet

Book:The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel

Source: The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel

“hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.”

Fall Behinds Sun Sky Mountain Blue Setting Settings Hills Strings Horizon Windmills Hazy Sun Setting

Book:And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.”

Thinking World Needs Feelings Sky This World Fine Obvious Conquer Straightforward Windmills Hardwood

Book:The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

“Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.”

Looks Literature Praying Illusion Giants Windmills

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived from coal and petroleum (fossil sunlight) which propels our steam and gas engines, our locomotives and automobiles. ... Food is simply sunlight in cold storage.”

Form Science Turns Energy Water Food Cold Wheels Gas Engines Sunlight Coal Fossils Machinery Automobile Steam Storage Petroleum Windmills Locomotives

Book:The New Dietetics, What to Eat and How

Source: The New Dietetics, What to Eat and How

“My golf game is getting real good. Last week, I got through the windmill.”

Real Lasts Games Week Golf Golf Game Windmills

Book:It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs

Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs

“London's Windmill Theater grew famous for its nude tableaux. During the 1940 and 1950, this theater overcame the objections of censors by agreeing that none of its naked actors would move any part of his/her body.”

Body Moving Actors Grew Theater London Naked Censorship Objections Windmills

Author:Lynda Bellingham

“There are times when each of us has to have some gumption to take a stand as to what we wish to preserve or change in order to maintain our self-respect and not be as "a reed shaken with the wind" (Matt. 11:7) . . . . We lose much credibility and strength, and we risk being weighed on an uneven balance, when, Don Quixote-like, we go around "tilting windmills".”

Self Order Wish Loses Risk Strength Wind Balance Preserves Self Respect Credibility Reeds Windmills Gumption

Book:Reach Up for the Light

Source: Reach Up for the Light

“There isnt a single windmill owner in Holland who doesnt have a second job, for when there is no wind.”

Jobs Wind Owners Holland Windmills

Author:Johnny Ball

“Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the planet Earth's prime daily energy income source-the wind--and adequately supply all the world's energy needs”

World Needs Earth Energy Planets Wind Source Direct Currents Income Around The World Prime Electric Harvest Feeding Planet Earth Converting Windmills

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“Those who believe that we have reached the limit of business progress and employment opportunity in this country are like the farmer who had two windmills and pulled one down because he was afraid there was not enough wind for both.”

Inspirational Believe Two Country Enough Opportunity Belief Business Progress Wind Limits Employment Farmers Windmills Employment Opportunities

Author:Morris S. Tremaine

“Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever-spinning reel As the images unwind Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind.”

Mind Song Circles Wheels Spinning Never Ending Spirals Popular Song Unwind Windmills

Author:Michel Legrand

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