#blow

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#breath #changes #direction #fame #his way

Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#banks #blowing #creatures #hold #live

If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#against #because #blowing #bombing #globalisation

Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity. ↗

— Abu Bakr

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Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on. ↗

— Paula Abdul

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My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair. ↗

— Aeschylus

#believe #blow #cheers #comes #divine

Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#any #because #blow #deal #did

I am attached to the west coast of Scotland - it's gorgeous to look at and challenging. You have to contend with the possibility of being blown away or rained on. And in the summer months you can be eaten alive by midges. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#am #attached #away #being #blown

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#anything #around #balcony #blowing #bottle

Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart. ↗

— Yasser Arafat

#arab #arab world #blows #cement #explosive