Aeolus God Quotes & Sayings

Italy police arrest 8 in Mafia wind farms plot. Operation "Aeolus," named after the ancient Greek god of winds, netted eight suspects, arrested in the Trapani area of western Sicily [and on the Italian mainland]. Police in Trapani said the local Mafia bribed city officials in nearby Mazara del Vallo so the town would invest in wind farms to produce energy. (Associated Press, 2009 [Google hosted]) — John Etherington

People often find comfort in ignorance of illusions, but rarely find solace in the truth of reality. — Lionel Suggs

True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way. — Stephen Mitchell

However life started, once established, it persisted for over 3.5 billion years and evolved from microbial slime to the sophistication of human civilization. — David C. Catling

There are certain people that you don't have to even work at extracting their inner life. It is just there and they're happy to share it with you. — Carol Friedman

After a few minutes, he asked, real quietly, if you turned into an animal, too. And I said, 'She wishes she was that cool! — Stephenie Meyer

The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less individual emotion. I sometimes think that migratory birds may have it for each other. They fly in the same direction, and have never been seen to interfere with each other's flights. — Phyllis Bottome

Space and Time! Two minor omissions that no one is likely to notice," grumbled Newton. — Neal Stephenson

being attached in this way to any number of things, we're weighed down by them and dragged down. [16] That is why, if the weather prevents us from sailing, we sit there in a state of anxiety, constantly peering around. 'What wind is this?' The North Wind. And what does it matter to us and to him? 'When will the West Wind blow?' When it so chooses, my good friend, or rather, when Aeolus chooses; for God hasn't appointed you to be controller of the winds, he has appointed Aeolus. [17] What are we to do, then? To make the best of what lies within our power, and deal with everything else as it comes. — Epictetus

I'm a country guy from Mississippi who keeps it simple. — Steve McNair

She opened the door very slowly and carefully, half hiding behind it, as if badly frightened of what might be waiting for her on the other side. And considering that it was me waiting, this showed rare common sense. — Jeff Lindsay

When you have a kid and people go, 'What a beautiful child,' it's the same kind of reaction when you play a song that people recognize and love. — Rick Springfield

Don't you wish some people came with a silencer? — Josh Stern

I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled. — Dennis Farina

We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back. — Woodrow Wilson