Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.
The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.
Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course.
On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves.
Who am I to blow against the wind?
These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.