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There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind. (Quote by - Johnny Ball)

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. (Quote by - John Petit-Senn)

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore. (Quote by - Sterling Hayden)

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)

I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair. (Quote by - Evel Knievel)

As the wind blows the sand from the shore, so must they be driven away. This is the true voice of the people (Quote by - Benjamin Zephania)

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself. (Quote by - David Friedman)

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. (Quote by - Bruce Lee)

One of my favorites is The Sound of Music. When Julie Andrews runs through the hills singing her head off, I always wish that a gust of wind would blow her skirt up. (Quote by - Mark Roberts)

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid. (Quote by - Homer)

The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard. (Quote by - Frances Parkinson Keyes)

I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far. (Quote by - Billy Connolly)

I don't know where this Arctic wind has come from but it's freezing! (Quote by - Alan Green)

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will. (Quote by - John D. MacDonald)

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting. (Quote by - Laura Ingalls Wilder)

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind. (Quote by - Thomas Hood)

It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it. (Quote by - O. Henry)

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind. (Quote by - William Golding)

The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives; Over and over To the lowly clover He has lisped the same love (and forgotten it, too). He will be lisping and pledging to you. (Quote by - John Vance Cheney)

I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, there was a terrible wind force hitting my body, and then I blanked out. (Quote by - Larry Miller)

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring. (Quote by - Burl Ives)

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind. (Quote by - William Falconer)

The wind moans, like a long wail from some despairing soul shut out in the awful storm! (Quote by - William Hamilton Gibson)

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