Quotes of Gust - somelinesforyou

“ An ill wind that bloweth no man good - The blower of which blast is she. ”

- John Heywood

“ When the stormy winds do blow; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow. ”

- Thomas Campbell

“ May the wind always be on your back and the sun upon your face and may the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars. ”

- Johnny Depp

“ Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. ”

- Algernon Sidney

“ To a crazy ship all winds are contrary. ”

- George Herbert

“ Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ The balmy zephyrs, silent since her death, Lament the ceasing of a sweeter breath. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest The silver clouds. - John Keats. ”

- John Keats

“ Let Zephyr only breathe And with her tresses play. ”

- William Drummond

“ The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew; Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge. ”

- John Dryden

“ And see where surely Winter passes off,Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts:His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill,The shatter'd forest, and the ravag'd vale;While softer gales succeed, at whose kind touch,Dissolving snows in livid torrents lost,The mountains lift their green heads to the sky. ”

- James Thomson

“ Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed and the first of what will come, but is more — let me see — more like a single point plucked on a single strand of a vast spider web of winds, setting the whole scene atingle… ”

- Ken Kesey

“ Zephyr, with Aurora playing,As he met her once a-Maying. ”

- John Milton

“ I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind. ”

- Grover Cleveland

“ My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm. ”

- John McGraw

“ It looked like a tsunami with hurricane winds. ”

- Richard Wright

“ The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze. ”

- Titus Livius

“ There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. ”

- George Eliot

“ He brings a gust of acrid provincial air to the ancient office. He is an angry young prophet rather than a smooth courtier. His verse is angular, savage, robust and very good. ”

- Philip Howard

“ The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune. ”

- William Penn

“ One ship drives east and another drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go. ”

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“ One does not have to stand again the gale. One yields and becomes part of the wind. ”

- Unknown

“ Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up. - John Ruskin. ”

- John Ruskin

“ If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Whatever it is, it's better in the wind. ”

- Unknown

“ I won't say I'm out of condition now - but I even puff going downstairs. ”

- Dick Gregory

“ Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts. ”

- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“ He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale. ”

- Johnson

“ It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton
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