Winds Quotations

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds.

The wonderful thing about the cartoon form is it's a combination of words and pictures. You don't have to choose, and the contribution of the two often winds up being greater than the sum of its parts.

Iran's goal is not to become another North Korea - a nuclear weapons possessor but a pariah in the international community - but rather Brazil or Japan, a technological powerhouse with the capacity to develop nuclear weapons if the political winds were to shift, while remaining a nonnuclear weapons state.

Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.

My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work.

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

To establish personal relationships with the people you work with is stupid, because you never know when the winds will change. I try not to get too close to people.

Weirdly enough, if I'm having trouble with a guitar part - not the playing of it but the writing - I'll mess around with echo and other effects, just turn everything up and make it as crazy as can be, and it winds up taking me somewhere. I've found so many guitar parts from echo. It's limitless.

My beginnings in the Southwest are clear and palpable. My beginnings here made me pay attention to where the sun is, where the winds are, the power of the site... I take that baggage with me.

But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I'm getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my stacks of wood and what I can do with it.

I don't want to sound like a grumpy old man, but nothing winds me up more than people saying, 'Chill out' to me when I'm irritated!

With my husband, I have twice sailed across the Atlantic in a sailboat one third the length of the Mayflower. I know Atlantic gales inside and out. I endured one that lasted for three days with winds up to fifty knots.

only the peripheral winds of the Asian crisis.

We had a very challenging month. We had some pockets of strength, but once again with the number of head winds for the month, we were down.

Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring...

Obviously with the winds blowing like they are, it pushed the fire pretty hard.

One or more of the (forecast) models bring it on shore (along) the Georgia-South Carolina border with winds of, perhaps, 50 miles an hour.

Near the last known position of the Andrea Gail, the winds were blowing 60 miles an hour for almost 24 straight hours. The peak wave height there was about 75 feet.

Right now I would not burn unless I had to. It is so easy for a fire to get out of control and the winds will only further the fire danger.

If we have large temperature changes, we're going to get wind. Anytime the temperature changes hugely and rapidly, the winds shall come.

Last year, the winds were around 25 to 26 knots out of the north. This year, it was even higher winds, but out of the south.

We're looking at local squalls ... with winds gusting up to 50-60 miles per hour (80-96 km/h).

We're looking at very strong northeast winds and that's going to blow snow around and create drifts, and that's going to combine to make travel ? especially Sunday morning ? hazardous.

We're giving Jamie an extra day of rest. And this way it winds up giving him two starts at home.

Low humidity and high winds allow for a fire to get out of control.

May the raindrops fall lightly on your brow. May the soft winds freshen your spirit. May the sunshine brighten your heart. May the burdens of the day rest lightly upon you, and may God enfold you in the mantle of His love.

Max was very concerned that this hurricane was going to cross the state, that the winds were going to go far inland.

Major decisions during the Lewinsky investigation have not been easy. And given the hurricane force winds swirling about us, we were well aware that no matter what decision we made, criticism would come from somewhere.

Lydia had a couple of fabulous runs (in GS) in very adverse conditions. We had very, very high winds and lots of snow. I'll bet 8 or 9 inches fell during the day.

So far there have been few problems. A broken winch was readily repaired by the crew, as was a batten problem in the mainsail. Sailing winds have been excellent and at one point we were flying a hull,

So many people have been completely displaced. A family that winds up in Buffalo, New York, may not have the wherewithal to claim a body and conduct a burial.

When they tell you not to go outside and to evacuate, people don't realize that your life is in your hands. When you can see the winds actually pick up a car, you can understand how strong those 145 mph winds are.

harvesting our offshore winds to produce pollution-free energy is a forward-looking solution that protects public health, the environment and the region's quality of life.

We are going to see an increase in our fire activity as we continue to see very little rain. Our drought index continues to increase and with low relative humidity and the daily shifting of winds any fire that does start will be a problem.

I get involved with the set design, lighting and the use of film because I always hated seeing bands in arenas. They usually suck. You're not meant to see rock shows there. You're meant to see a basketball game. In approaching the idea of arenas, I asked, 'What can I do in arenas I can't do elsewhere?' I tried to make it unique, help frame the music, and make it more like theater, so it starts at one place and winds up at another.

Fortunately, there's been a lot of time to prepare. The bad news is that because it's moving so slowly, it prolongs the impact, both because of the winds and the rainfall.

But complications are good. It may not be good for the player who winds up not playing, but it's an advantage for the team as a whole.

I don't believe you could have stood up in that wind. When the strong winds hit, we put the players in the showers.

To get a big fire, you need high temperatures, low relative humidity, dry fuels and winds all aligned on the same day. We haven't seen that much this year, yet our overall acreage burned is much higher than in the past.

Today is a Red Flag day. On a day like this, the smallest spark and high winds can cause a fire. It's a matter of how quick they can get on them.

We've got to take advantage of the cooler temperatures, try to get as much done as we can now before winds start to swirl up again.

We suspect that high winds broke the pipe that holds the ramp.

We sustained hurricane winds of about 100 to 120 mph for about a nine-hour period, so we have thousands of trees down within our city,

We've encountered some substantial head winds in the areas of weather and commodity costs.

Hurricanes rarely sustain such extreme winds for much time. However we see no obvious large-scale effects to cause a substantial weakening the system and it is expected that the hurricane will be of Category 4 or 5 intensity when it reaches the coast.

I actually started college as an art major, so I do have a semi-developed visual sense. I just don't have the chops to do it myself anymore. But with Matt, I only have to give him a general concept or whatever, and he takes it over the moon. Whatever he winds up with is always better than I could even dream.

If that extreme wind sustains itself for as much as six seconds on a building it's going to cause rupturing damages that are serious no matter how well it's engineered. So I think that it's immaterial what will happen with winds stronger than 156 miles per hour. That's the reason why we didn't try to go any higher than that,

Hold on to your hat. The winds will pick up for the afternoon.

Hitting really is contagious. The last couple games have been high-scoring games, the winds blowing and anything can happen.

The rains don't weaken as fast as the winds do. As far as the rains are concerned, they are going to extend over a large portion of the state.

He's a trumpet player so having a winds and brass focus is a real treat. He's very passionate and level headed and not the kind of director who throws things at you.

We're pretty busy up until the first week in December. It winds down after that because people have other things in their mind, but that's fine with me since I like taking the week off between Christmas and New Year's.

Some of the trees were old and sick. They weren't made to resist winds like that.

That area between Miami and Palm Beach is a huge cluster of insurance values and exposure. A very slight increase in the winds can cause significant increase in losses. Right now we're slightly below the design wind speed. But a little faster, you hit values where you see more things start to fail.

That doesn't mean it will blow tropical storm force winds for six hours or 12 hours. It could be one minute or three, but it means if you have awnings that can't withstand tropical force winds, you should take them down.

Some people are trapped in their homes, but we can't rescue them until the winds die down.

Some of the storms could come . . . during the day. Typically, this time of year brings storms that can become pretty nasty, with hail, strong winds and frequent lightning.

Surveying these fields will provide information to get the big picture of how this fungus behaves in this part of the world. We know it's caused major losses in Asia and other parts of the world, but we don't really know how it will affect crops here. The weather and prevailing winds this spring will play a big role in what happens, but if South Texas bean crops have a rough year with soybean rust, there will be the potential for a bad year further north.

Our middle linebacker's an All-Pro and he had (90) tackles. That shows you what kind of team we have. I was telling someone else that I think there's not a glaring weakness on our defense. Before, if a corner had 150 tackles, obviously he was picked on. We don't have that. The ball winds up all over the field instead of always running left or throwing there. That has made everyone even as far as statistics go.

People need to realize, and I know they won't, that there was 45 mph winds out there, and it was tough, ... A lot of those plays were not (Tommy's) fault. The wind was knocking the balls down. There was no way he should have got the criticism he did.

I was able to read the winds pretty well, but some of my shots only narrowly missed greens, adding to my frustration. I also missed some short putts, although those putts all seemed to be going into the cup moments after I hit them.

Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play one-hundred and ninety games, and I'm overpaid!

Just because a county may drop its burn ban, though, doesn't mean that all risk of escaped fires is gone and that residents can throw all caution to the wind with their outdoor burning. With dry weather and gusty winds predicted for most of the week, the risk of grass fires will likely grow with every day that passes without rain.

It is going to rage into a major, major hurricane before all is said and done. By the time it makes landfall Sunday into Monday, we are going to be talking about a giant Category 4 storm, according to the latest models, with maximum winds of 135 mph. There is a possibility that it can rage even larger.

I think the winds are changing. We're all tired of supporting the scandals.

REQUIEM, n. A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us the winds sing o'er the graves of their favorites. Sometimes, by way of providing a varied entertainment, they sing a dirge.

Out of us all/ That make rhymes,/ Will you choose/ Sometimes -/ As the winds use/ A crack in a wall/ Or a drain,/ Their joy or their pain/ To whistle through -/ Choose me,/ You English words?

Our wind speedometer broke. We had 100 mile-per-hour winds for four-plus hours with gusts up to 150 mph. I would characterize the damage as heavy, but not catastrophic.

Kauai is home to many wish-list golf venues such as Princeville and Kauai Lagoons, but locals, such as former LPGA pro Mary Bea Porter King, favor Waialua Municipal. Tucked on the eastern coast of Kauai, Waialua winds through groves of coconut, Norfolk pine and ironwood trees, with four holes adjoining Waialua Bay and Waialua Golf Course Beach.

It is now moving away from the North Carolina Outer Banks. It is still causing strong winds and heavy rain.

It burned hot and aggressive and spread fast because of the winds in the lighter vegetation and more south-facing slopes, then it tempered down when it got into the heavier timber area.

It appears that radiation and winds from the massive star triggered new stars to form.

It is a beautiful area for albatross, on a protected ridge overlooking the ocean with trade winds needed for their first flight in a few months.

Today's forecast shows good winds until Thursday -- but then there are possible headwinds to slow us up when we reach the English Channel,

Tropical-force winds are still quite capable of substantial damage. As the winds come down, the rain will take over as a primary threat.

Today the winds of hope blow through Latin America and the Caribbean.

Yeah, we've had some high winds and there's been some tough scores out there and the conditions are tough. But for me, I just like playing that way. I like the way the greens are set up here a lot.

The problems with these high winds is not only is it sucking the moisture out of the fuel or the vegetation that's going to burn, but it also fanned the fire for a half a mile long and also got it into the trees causing safety problems for firefighters.

We'll let nature take its course, and time will tell where he winds up.

Unfortunately the winds look like they are picking up at this stage and we are expecting them to increase.

The approaches to bridges are at the greatest risk of scouring from the storm surge. The National Guard is going to take a Hummer with satellite communications and drive all the way down to Mile Marker 0. They're just waiting for the winds to start dropping.

With the gusty winds, low humidity and all the hard freezes lately, it's created an abundant amount of dry, dead fuels. Our big concern is that (debris) fires are going to get away from people and the winds will pick them up and they'll race across the brush.

Use your common sense and (if) you doubt the capacity to withstand high winds, then we are asking you to evacuate, ... Few mobile homes, if any, could withstand some of the types of winds that may be characteristic of a hurricane that is of the projected magnitude of Rita. We are asking you to evacuate.

We could not be more relieved this morning. It seems, for whatever reason, the winds did not do as much damage as expected.

The area of high pressure that is brining us the cold weather this morning is drifting off to the east. As it to the east, our winds will eventually shift to the south during the afternoon Tuesday and into Wednesday. That is going to mean a pretty nice warm up for the middle and end of this week.

Wilma has very quickly strengthened to a storm with winds of 175 miles per hour -- that's stronger than Katrina and Rita. Although it's not on course to hit oil platforms, it's still a few days away and if there's a slight change in course to the west, markets will jump aggressively higher.

Winds and waters keep A hush more dead than any sleep.

Winds are going to be a factor today.

Winds are gusting to 37 mph on Nantucket. And the seas are still looking a little rough out there. But we don't anticipate significant effects.

That suggests that they're going to get strong winds (in Florida) and they're really going to get some strong surf out of this.

We've been dry now for a few months, and we're going into part of what is the driest part of the year (early 2006), and with the winds in the forecast, we're going to have the same fire conditions they had up in North Texas.

When it's real steaming hot like it is today, winds blowing and the wind blows our tents, that's about the worst.

When it's windy, that area gets high winds mainly because of the terrain. The winds get pulled through that valley, which allows them to pick up and intensify.

Yesterday, we were starting to gain the upper hand. Then the winds kicked up, blew it over a road and it took off.

While the battle rages loud and long, / And the stormy winds do blow.

We're calling for some slight improvement in the weather by early next week. We're still looking for a return to light trade winds but still a wet trade winds pattern for next week.

We have been talking with the families, and they are very appreciative of what we are doing. We are doing everything we can. I have been talking with our crews and the other chiefs, and even in high winds we just can?t get them off the water.

We have a line all the way around it, but we're still calling it 30 percent contained through the night. The reason for that is because when the winds come in tomorrow we want to make sure those lines will hold.

We had two waves of wind. The passing of the initial front was pretty violent. Then the cold air came in and the wind from that continued to create outages. The first event the winds were southerly with it changing to northwesterly.