When the wind blows,the grass bends.


Confucius

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BIBLE
When the Wind Blows
JAMES PATTERSON
It's tough when the wind blows, because these greens are so brutal.
JOHN DALY
Be flexible like trees; when the wind blows bend, but do not break.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Ill blows the wind that profits nobody
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I am a feather for each wind that blows
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
BOB DYLAN
When I am gone and the wind blows, It is the breeze from my wings you feel.
TIMOTHY M. BANKS
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
THE TALMUD
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'
THE TALMUD
The higher you climb on the mountain, the harder the wind blows
SAM CUMMINGS
Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
BODIE THOENE
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
ROBERT INGERSOLL
You throw the sand against the windAnd the wind blows it back again.
WILLIAM BLAKE
You can't have an energy policy that means you can only have a bath when the wind blows.
JIM RATCLIFFE
'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.
MALACLYPSE THE YOUNGER
...You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
BOB DYLAN
Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.
AESOP
Wind is the sacred music of the leaves; wherever and whenever the wind blows, over there leaves star...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.
BOB DYLAN
You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The money stays locally. The more the wind blows, the higher the percentage we get.
NEAL VON OHLEN
The wind that blows, the ship that goes And the lass the loves a sailor.
OLD ENGLISH SAYING
It's an ill wind that blows no one any good
PROVERB
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in...
CHARLES DICKENS
We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot com...
NICK HORNBY
Me? I go wherever the wind blows…and wherever the whiskey shots are half price.
NICKI ELSON
The wind blows in the right direction only for those who know where to go
SENEQUE
Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL
When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit...
ALICE OSWALD
No piensas en mí como yo en ti. No me importa. Pero si también tienes frío, podrías acercarte y ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.
SIOUX SAYING
When a soothing wind blows gently love through the thistledown of expectations, hope may inveigle th...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
There came a wind like a bugle; / It quivered through the grass.
EMILY DICKINSON
Since I grew tired of the chaseAnd search, I learned to find;And since the wind blows in my face,I s...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
~Seasons of Life~
When the sunburn I blind,
When the sky showers I cover,
When the wi...
SANTOSH AVVANNAVAR
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends ...
ELIZABETH I
You are not my sunshine. Sorry. You're more like a gust of arctic wind that bursts in and blows out ...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindle...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
A wet sheet and a flowing sea, / A wind that follows fast / And fills the white and rustling sail / ...
ALLAN CUNNINGHAM
A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit, an enemy is the wind that blows it out.
ANTHONY LICCIONE
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans t...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
The wind that blows across the Central Plains can produce more than five times the energy we are usi...
LARRY FLOWERS
Si miramos el fuego es porque parpadea, porque resplandece. Lo que atrae nuestra mirada es la luz, p...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the...
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the...
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
You don’t command wind in the direction it blows, but you command a ship in the direction it sails...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into it...
HENRY BESTON
When the wind blows in your face,
when you feel you are losing your head,
when the going g...
MALAK EL HALABI
Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firm...
JOHN OWEN
Accept your nature, Mikhail. Accept yourself as you are.”
Mikhail’s laughter was bitter. �...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN
Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.
MARGARET MITCHELL
You look at the golf course and think it's easy because it's short. But it's not easy, and when the ...
BOBBY DUNN
The main aurora oval on Jupiter we think should dim when the solar wind blows harder, but what we se...
JONATHAN NICHOLS
Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ...
MARGARET MITCHELL
I hear the wind a blowI hear the grass a grow,And all that I know, I know.But I will not speak, I wi...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast And fills the white and rustling sails...
ALLAN CUNNINGHAM
Metal rusts, music lasts forever.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
There's actually a very scientific device for measuring the way the wind blows, ... which we refer t...
DON GRAHAM
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
EURIPIDES
Cold blows the wind against the hill, And cold upon the plain; I sit me by the bank, until ...
RICHARD GARNETT
As the wind blows the sand from the shore, so must they be driven away. This is the true voice of th...
BENJAMIN ZEPHANIA
Rock-a-bye Baby
In the tree top
When the wind blows
The cradle will rock.
When...
KRISTEN MCKEE
We waited for the political people to stand up. They were sitting in their office to see which way t...
CELESTE ZAPPALA
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
But the standing toast that pleased me most Was, "The wind that blows, the ship that goes, And...
CHARLES DIBDIN
This is unlike the Blue Monster, where the wind normally blows a lot. This is as calm as I've seen i...
VIJAY SINGH
Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good da...
IGGY POP
For I inhabit the spaces in between, where auras mix and hearts reach out and knowing hovers, and wh...
THE WIND SOPHIA IN FEATHERFOOT
Sparklers can spark a fire. They may not stand up properly, the wind may blow them into the grass.
JASON GUNKLE
(Goneril:) I have been worth the whistle. (Albany:) O Goneril, You are not worth the dust wh...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
May brooks and trees and singing hills join in the chorus too, and every gentle wind that blows send...
IRISH BLESSINGS
They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excite...
MARGARET MITCHELL
Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a h...
MARGARET MITCHELL
What can I do, Muslims? I do not know myself.
I am neither Christian nor Jew, neither Magian no...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
Where you can make up ground is if the wind blows and your opponents make big numbers. I think you c...
PHIL MICKELSON
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS
Nor without receiving permission from a guest ,who stays in his house , nor while the wind blows veh...
GURU NANAK
Solange wir Kinder sind, denken wir nur selten an die Zukunft. Diese Unschuld ermöglicht es uns, un...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Anytime the wind blows more than 60 mph, something goes awry. We've had a lot of practice, and we're...
JOHN WILLARD
Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blo...
MARK TWAIN
Never, oh! never, nothing will die;
The stream flows,
The wind blows,
The cloud fleet...
ALFRED TENNYSON
Stop a minute, Ambrose!" interrupted Master Nathaniel. "I've got a sudden silly whim that we should ...
HOPE MIRRLEES
The women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evi...
JUSTICE HARRY A. BLACKMUN
If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS
Rainbows and butterflies, cattails and dandelions, waterfalls and rainforests, puppy dogs and dragon...
LILY CHATTERJEE
The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.
When it blows here, even the seagulls walk.
NICK FALDO
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
ALEXANDER POPE
I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like th...
OCTAVIA SPENCER
Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbli...
DAVID O. SELZNICK
I have been here before./ But when or how I cannot tell:/ I know the grass beyond the door,/ The swe...
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows...
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE

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Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors
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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
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If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the goo...
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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses
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When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps...
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Heaven means to be one with God. - Confucius,
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If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought t...
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To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five ...
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There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation...
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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
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People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.
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