#wind

We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass.There's so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#china #countries #curve #focus #getting

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#always #side #waves #winds

It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues. ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#barred #city #companions #deserted #heels

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind. ↗

— William Golding

#flying #high #out #sleep #stuff

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#earthquake #fire #gentle #light #need

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. ↗

— Catherine the Great

#either #gives #great #headache #imagination

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house! ↗

— Nanci Griffith

#being #catch #else #good #hand

I'm really looking forward to it, if you can imagine floating weightless, watching the world pour by through the big bay window of the space station playing a guitar; just a tremendous place to think about where we are in history. ↗

— Chris Hadfield

#bay #big #floating #forward #guitar

Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly. ↗

— Chuck Hagel

#close #defense #domestic #economic #energy

It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#arched #area #becomes #compute #crop