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"It is the great north wind that made the Vikings." »Scandinavian Proverb
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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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"1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of north America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of north America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them." »Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
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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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"In the middle of the north Pole, anything hot gives the feeling like touching the hand of the God!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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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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"If you know the north, you know where the South is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass for the good!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"West is too materialist; East is too spiritual; north is too cold; South is too loose!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The north was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came." »Jefferson Davis
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"If you know the north, you know where the South is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass to find the good!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I am part of the sea and stars And the winds of the South and north Of mountains and Moon and Mars, And the ages sent me forth" »Edward H. S. Terry
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"I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)" »Ronald Reagan
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"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it." »Confucius
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"We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. (On ordering retaliatory action against north Vietnam)" »Lyndon B. Johnson
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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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"If hell uses highly refined uranium and completely pure hydrogen to stoke its fires, the roaring furnaces there will still be too cold for these depraved beings. (Speaking about the leaders of north Korea...)
read about it here: http://standfortheright.com/archives/540" »Dan Flikweert
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"Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by north Vietnam." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. (Answering north Vietnamese charge that US could not endure)" »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"If there is no wind, row." »Latin Proverb
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"We are no more than candles burning in the wind." »Japanese Proverb
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"Our lives are like a candle in the wind." »Carl Sandburg
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