Veering Wind Quotes & Sayings

I watched the raindrops slide down the window, finding pathways through the dust. It's fascinating to watch how they do that - one of them leads the way, and then the others follow in that path, perhaps veering slightly and making it wider, but generally sticking to the same direction unless acted on by something powerful like the wind picking up or a sudden turn. Watch them sometime; their reluctance to chart their own course is remarkable. And if raindrops exhibit that - raindrops that have nothing at stake in their brief lives - how unsurprising is it that people do it too, following paths carved by others, even if it leads nowhere good -Eve — Michele Jaffe

The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people. — Steve Jobs

If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field, ... it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light. — John Calvin

Always run to, not from, it gives your life purpose. — Eric Hansen

Now he experienced a feeling akin to that of a man whom while calmly crossing a bridge over a precipice, should suddenly discover that the bridge is broken, and that there is a chasm below. That chasm was life itself, the bridge that artificial life in which Aleksey Aleksandrovich had lived. — Leo Tolstoy

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. — Winston S. Churchill

Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails. — Lord Byron

I've only ever seen Errol Christie fight once before and that was the best I've ever seen him fight. — Mark Kaylor

When you grow up around people who don't speak very much, what they do say to you is indelible. — Hope Jahren

If, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens
if we are unaware that women even have a history
we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias. — Adrienne Rich

At some point, you just pull off the band aid and it hurts. But when it is over, you are relieved. — John Green