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"Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch." »Yoshida Kenko
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"wind is the heart of the wave, the spoon of the sea and the angry bull of the ships. Without wind, there is no ardour, no agitation!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees." »Kahlil Gibran
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"So many Gods, so many creeds
So many ways that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
is all this sad world needs." »Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Old postcard
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"The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind." »Heinrich Heine
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"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind." »Seneca
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"If a man knows not what harbour he seeks, any wind is the right wind." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"When the wind stops, kite falls but bird flies; because bird did not borrow the wind when rising!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Rough wind, that moanest loudGrief too sad for songWild wind, when sullen cloudKnells all the night longSad storm, whose tears are vain,Bare woods, whose branches strain,Deep caves and dreary main, - Wail, for the world's wrong" »Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"The dust cannot fight against the wind; the wind cannot fight against the mountain. Everything and everyone has a battle to lose!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The Eagle wasn't always the Eagle. The Eagle, before he became the Eagle, was Yucatangee, the Talker. Yucatangee talked and talked. It talked so much it heard only itself. Not the river, not the wind, not even the Wolf. The Raven came and said The Wolf is hungry. If you stop talking, you'll hear him. The wind too. And when you hear the wind, you'll fly. So he stopped talking. And became its nature, the Eagle. The Eagle soared, and its flight said all it needed to say." »Robin Green
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"Every time a strong wind blows, every sand and dust yearns for being a solid rock and every solid rock longs for flying with the wind!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"We are capable of destroying America and breaking its nose." »Muammar Qaddafi
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"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain." »Emily Dickinson
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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding." »Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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"He that would build lastingly must lay his foundation low. The proud man, like the early shoots of a new-felled coppice, thrusts out full of sap, green in leaves, and fresh in colour, but bruises and breaks with every wind, is nipped with every little cold, and, being top-heavy, is wholly unfit for use. Whereas the humble man retains it in the root, can abide the winter?s killing blast, the ruffling concussions of the wind, and can endure far more than that which appears so flourishing." »Feltham
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"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual." »Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922
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"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it." »Edward P. Morgan
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"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way." »Edward De Bono
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"Rules only make sense if they are both kept and broken. breaking the rule is one way of observing it." »Sir Thomas More
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"If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain." »Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun." »Mary Lou Cook
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"If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen." »Sam James Ervin, Jr.
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"Oil prices will keep breaking new records until other countries move to nuclear and alternative energy sources or we discover massive new reserves and increase production dramatically over the next few years." »Med Jones
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"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy." »Charles Langbridge Morgan
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"Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." »Thamas De Quincey
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"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." »Thomas De Quincey, Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - 1827
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"The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones." »Peter McWilliams
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"A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself." »Jessamyn West
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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain." »Kahlil Gibran
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