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«Who spits against the wind, spits in his own face.»
Author: French Proverb | Keywords: against the wind, spat, spits, spitted, spitting, spit out, The Wind
«When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.»
Author: Henry Ford | About: Adversity | Keywords: against the wind, airplane, Airplanes, Gone With the Wind, The Wind
«To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind»
Author: Thomas Hood (Humorist, Poet) | Keywords: advise, against the wind, conceited, whistling
«You can't fly a kite unless you go against the wind and have a weight to keep it from turning a somersault. The same with man. No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.»
Author: William J. H. Boetcker | Keywords: against the wind, go against, responsibilities, somersault
«I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.»
Author: Leo F. Buscaglia | About: Enthusiasm, Play | Keywords: against, against the wind, down, enthusiastic, leaves, play, play down, run, running play, skip, skipped, skipping, skips, still, The Wind, wildly, wind
«Who am I to blow against the wind?»
Author: Paul Simon (Singer, Song Writer) | Keywords: against the wind
«You throw the sand against the windAnd the wind blows it back again.»
Author: William Blake (Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet) | Keywords: against the wind, blows, sand, sanded, sanding, The Sand, The Wind, throw, wind
«Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.»
Author: Winston Churchill (Author, Orator, Prime Minister) | Keywords: against, against the wind, Get High, Higher And Higher, higher up, highest, High C, high wind, into the wind, rise, The Wind, wind, winded, wind rose, wound up
«You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you dies each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway | Keywords: against the wind, bare, bared, barer, bares, barest, baring, branches, cold, died, died young, dies, each year, expected, fell, flow, freezes, freezing, frozen, kept, killed, rains, river, spring, The Fall, The River, The Wind, tree branch, wintry, young person
«As if the man had fixed his face,In many a solitary place,Against the wind and open sky!»
Author: William Wordsworth (Poet) | Keywords: against the wind
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