Pastoral Resources

Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.

In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors.

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.

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.

We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big.

The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the energy of a tornado. But the hardest thing is trying to get dialogue out in all of that.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night.

Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.

Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

They sowed the wind and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.

Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.

It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.