Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

I've had my ups and downs. My fair share of bumpy roads and heavy winds. That's what made me what I am today.

Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

Proud to steal her anything she sees, but you will wind up peeking through her key hole down upon your knees.

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons.

Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth.

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.

Sometimes the wind blows you places you weren't expecting: sometimes it blows you away from those places, too.

Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.

The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep #‎ trust .

Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go?

Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.

I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.

I need to live like that crooked tree--... that knelt down in the hardest winds but could not be blasted away.

Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.

The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor.

You keep working hard and the wind will carry you where it needs to carry you, in the direction you need to be.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

Wind turbines are imposing structures and definitely not the kind of thing one wants to see from a golf course.

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken.

I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint.

Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now that’s a blessing.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.

With Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, it was better to be friends and make them smile rather than wind them up.

[On the desert:] The wind was a constant, and when you paid attention, it seemed like the earth's own breathing.

A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

You never conquer a mountain. You just stand on the top a few moments. Then the wind blows your footprints away.

When the stormy winds of life threaten to knock you down, may you have the courage to spread your wings and fly!

It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.

I turned 30 and decided if I was going to try acting I had better try or wind up still holding a desk job at 50.

I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.

I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.

Ere the dolphin dies Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath Are tropic winds before the voice of death.

Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds...

The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.

I was a stage dad. When I was with Earth, Wind and Fire, I was their stage dad - the O'Jays, I was the stage dad.

I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.

To by held above the earth and be brushed by the wind," she said,"it's like your heart has been kissed by beauty.

There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.

Don't fear to pledge. By winds the perjuries of love Are blown, null and void, across the land and farthest seas.

I want my gay life to not wind up on the streets-on Second Avenue. But at the same time, I don't care if it does.

If you desecrate a white grave, you wind up sitting in prison. But desecrate an Indian grave, and you get a Ph.D.

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

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