Windmill In Our Life Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes, when you wished too hard for something, you paid a bitter price. — Kate Elliott

Then find out what your sword is - find your own advantage - and wear it proudly. — Chris Colfer

When I am not writing, I'm dying. — Neil Diamond

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. — Albert J. Nock

Don Quixotes! Stand aback from my windmill! — Lara Biyuts

You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows. — George Herbert

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on
that is, badly. — George Orwell

You shall have," Gillie said, "the king's bread and goat milk."
"The magical goat milk?"
"The same."
"Will it make me beautiful?"
"It cannot. You are already that. — Shirley Rousseau Murphy

My only idea ever, Dorrigo had confessed, is to advance forward and charge the windmill. Taylor had laughed, but Dorrigo had meant it. It's only our faith in illusions that makes life possible, Squizzy, he had explained, in as close to an explanation of himself as he ever offered. It's believing in reality that does us in every time. He — Richard Flanagan

There was a certain beauty in the chaos, a certain order in the mess. — Sarah Fine

So I make no effort to hide my pain. I don't ever put it all on display like this - but for today and all the rest of the days of the trial, I must. My every flinch, every flicker of pain, will be
magnified a hundred times over, then dissected by the pundits and talking heads. But I'm told it's necessary; the world needs to see me vulnerable and wounded. I cannot appear not to care or to lack remorse, but that removes a crucial component of my self- defense mechanism and leaves me bleeding for all the world to see. I suppose that's rather the point. — Ann Aguirre

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious. — Emile M. Cioran

I rarely trust myself to make statements about truth. — Gregory Maguire