There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Apocalyptic thinking happens on the left as well as on the right, and in environmentalism, that's a terrible approach to take. Because it isn't true.
Who am I to blow against the wind?
The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.
My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
I can look up in the air and see where the wind is gonna change direction.
On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have the certitude that such could not happen.
The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown all over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.
That's a good way to live, go against the wind.