Strong Winds Quotes:

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

- Peter Marshall

source: Peter Marshall (1949). “Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Strong, Under Stress, Strong Winds

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

topic: Inspirational, Life, Strength, Strong Man, I Am Strong

When a strong wind blows, the clouds vanish and blue sky appears. Similarly, when the powerful wisdom that understand the nature of the mind arises, the dark clouds of ego disappear.

- Thubten Yeshe

topic: Wisdom, Nature, Strong, Strong Winds, Blue Sky

Strong winds do not last all morning, hard rains do not last all day.

- Laozi

topic: Strong, Morning, Rain, Strong Winds

In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.

- Mark Suster

source: "In a strong wind even Turkeys can fly" by Mark Suster, www.businessinsider.com. December 27, 2010.

topic: Strong, Wind, Turkeys, Strong Winds

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

topic: Strong, Blow, Rocks, Strong Winds

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.

- Aesop

source: Aesop, Lloyd W. Daly (1961). “Aesop without morals: the famous fables, and a life of Aesop, newly translated and edited by Lloyd W. Daly. Illustrated by Grace Muscarella”

topic: Strength, Strong, Wind, Strong Winds, Avoided

Winter is on the road to spring. Some think it a surly road. I do not. A primrose road to spring were not as engaging to my heart as a frozen icicled craggy way angered over by strong winds that never take the iron trumpets from their lips.

- William Alfred Quayle

topic: Strong, Spring, Heart, Strong Winds, Surly

A good quotation is a very strong wind; it can change a man's direction!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Change, Strong, Men, Strong Winds

Obstacles can arise from good as well as bad circumstances, but they should never deter or overpower you. Be like the earth, which supports all living creatures indiscriminately, without distinguishing good from bad. The earth is simply there. Your practice should be strengthened by the difficult situations you encounter, just as a bonfire in a strong wind is not blown out, but blazes even brighter.

- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

topic: Strong, Wind, Practice, Strong Winds, Bonfire

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

- Arthur Golden

source: "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.

topic: Strength, Success, Encouraging, Memories Of A Geisha, Strong Winds

Loud wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains, Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea, Pour forth thy vials like streams from airy mountains, Draughts of life to me.

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

topic: Strong, Wind Blowing, Sea, Draught, Strong Winds

Flowers are fragile and ephemeral...Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without sunlight...and a spindly fence has no power against a strong wind. - Haibara Ai

- Gosho Aoyama

topic: Strong, Rain, Flower, Strong Winds, Conan

Regard this fleeting world like this: Like stars fading and vanishing at dawn, like bubbles on a fast-moving stream, like morning dewdrops evaporating on blades of grass, like a candle flickering in a strong wind... echoes, mirages, and phantoms, hallucinations, and like a dream.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Dream, Strong, Morning, Strong Winds, Morning Dew

There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of the so-called seat of an accomplished horseback rider or a sailor coming about in a strong wind. The words have both muscle and grace, familiarity and surprise.

- Anne Bernays

topic: Strong, Writing, Wind, Strong Winds, Horseback Riders

Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the other by the very movements of its innards. The external actions are strong winds, rains, river currents, sea waves, ice, forest fires, floods; there is only one internal force-earthquake.

- Mikhail Lomonosov

topic: Strong, Rain, Ice, Geology, Forest Fires

Pretend that I ain't in fact/Coming off like a thin hat/Where strong wind at

- Elzhi

topic: Strong, Wind, Facts, Strong Winds

My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would separate forever. “Hold tight,” I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to.

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Strong, Thinking, Wind, Strong Winds

A girl is like a young tree, she said. You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you. That is the only way to grow strong and straight. But if you bend to listen to other people, you will grow crooked and weak. You will fall to the ground with the first strong wind. And then you will be like a weed, growing wild in any direction, running along the ground until someone pulls you out and throws you away.

- Amy Tan

source: Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.191, Penguin

topic: Girl, Mother, Running, Joy Luck Club, Strong Winds

Do not seek earthly glory in any matter, for it is extinguished for him who loves it. In its time it blows on a man like a strong wind, and then quickly, taking from him the fruits of his good works, it goes away from him, laughing at his foolishness.

- Gennadius of Constantinople

topic: Inspirational, Christian, Religious, Strong Winds

Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.

- William Faulkner

topic: Strong, Writing, Wind, Strong Winds

Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals of silk until it becomes the only good memory I have of her -- the only memory I allowed myself to keep.

- Karen White

source: Karen White (2008). “The Memory of Water”, p.11, Penguin

topic: Strong, Memories, Wind, Strong Winds, Golden Hair

He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.

- James I. Robertson, Jr.

topic: Horse, Strong, War, Strong Winds

[On the propulsive force of rockets] One part of fire takes up as much space as ten parts of air, and one part of air takes up the space of ten parts of water, and one part of water as much as ten parts of earth. Now powder is earth, consisting of the four elementary principles, and when the sulfur conducts the fire into the dryest part of the powder, fire, and air increase ... the other elements also gird themselves for battle with each other and the rage of battle is changed by their heat and moisture into a strong wind.

- Vannoccio Biringuccio

topic: Strong, Air, Wind, Strong Winds, Sulfur

Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte “Annotated Jane Eyre: An Autobiography with English Grammar Exercises: by Charlotte Bronte (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

topic: Strong, Passion, Wind, Strong Winds, Reins

May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven.

- Roger Bannister

source: "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.

topic: Running, Strong, Athlete, Strong Winds

A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull down. Some people have written the story of my life representing as truth what in fact derives from ignorance, error or envy; but they cannot shake the truth from its place, even if they attempt to make others believe it.

- Haile Selassie

topic: Strong, Rain, Believe, Strong Foundation, Strong Winds

Marriage is a plastic flower. Love is a real rose, but the real rose is beautiful in the morning; by the evening it is gone. Nobody can say when it will disappear, when the petals will start falling. Just a strong wind and it is no more, just a strong sun and it is no more. But the plastic flower will be there; come rain, come sun, come anything, the plastic flower will be there. In fact, plastic is the only permanent thing in the world.

- Rajneesh

topic: Marriage, Beautiful, Strong, Strong Winds, Permanent Things

When I perform outside, the major problem that could arise is strong wind.I spend months preparing for the types of wind that occur in different locations.

- Philippe Petit

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Major Problems, Strong Winds

If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let it be adults and not children.

- T. D. Jakes

topic: Strong, Hurt, Pain, Strong Winds

The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal, are also demonstrations of the self-sufficing, and therefore self-relying soul. All history from its highest to its trivial passages is the various record of this power.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Strong, Animal, Self, Strong Winds, Recovering

Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.

- Dave Van Ronk

topic: Country, Song, Strong, Strong Winds

Let there always be a preponderance of mercy with you, even though you don't feel such mercy in yourself, as God has for the world ... A cruel and merciless heart is never purified. A merciful man is the doctor of his own soul, because as it were a by a strong wind from is heart he drives out the darkness of the passions.

- Isaac of Nineveh

topic: Strong Winds, Merciful