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" Quotes and Sayings About the wind

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Adjust Cannot Direct Sails
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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Notice Tree Crack Bend
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But neither can you condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on. You can never invite the wind but you must leave the window open.

Justify Alive Invite Wind
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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Business World Rearview Mirror
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Let it be a bite of a cockroach and fly with the wind.

Bite Fly Wind With
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The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.

Eye Creature Envious Snake
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.

Window Reality Effect Music
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Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

Solid Rock Even Wind
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The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love.

Wind Take Love Bring
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He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

Agreed Conversation He Must
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“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”
Leader Adjustment Optimist Complains
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Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.

After Because Books Bus
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Remember Against Airplane Wind
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Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.

Window Roll Spit Now
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When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

Almost Bed Before Gone
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Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
Best Empty Left Unsaid
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When you start a company, it's a singular focus. You have the wind at your back.

Company Focus Singular Start
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Against Anchor Drift Lie
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Every Knocks Other Out
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At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

Awareness Bare Being Beneath
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Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

Awareness Bare Being Beneath
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Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

Beyond Burns Earth Eternity
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I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

About Against Down Enthusiastic
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Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

Pilot Scripts Simply Time
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In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

Noses People Scent Small
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The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

Beauty Discovery Majesty Nature
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What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.

Always Break Breeze Cooling
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Blame Reveal Revealing Secrets
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Bare Bare Feet Delights Earth
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It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Determines Direction Go Sails
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You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Cannot Change Charge Circumstances
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I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.

Around Corner Distinctive Footsteps
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Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window

Read Classics Bad
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

Curl Mere Scatter Smoke
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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.

Love Wind Cares Satisfy
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
Better Bright Clean Keep
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open

Alliance Entered Man Marriage
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The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.

America Gone GoneWithTheWind Knew
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My 'thing' is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.

Airplane Bed Coming Doing
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Someday Mastering Winds Waves
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When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

About Actually Age Air
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I have yet to find a faithful tithe payer who cannot testify that in a very literal and wonderful way the windows of Heaven have been opened and blessings have been poured out upon him or her.

Been Blessings Cannot Faithful
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

Pessimist Complains Wind Optimist
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Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.

Been Blows Comfort Day
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Don't let the winds blow your dreams away... or steal your faith in God.

Away Blow Dreams Faith
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I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.

Beat Bed Dry Hang
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Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.

Familiar People Keep Dreaming
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The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

Flowers Fragrance Spread Direction
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The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

Earth Supported Power Truth
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Throw caution to the wind and just do it.
Caution Just Just Do It Throw
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