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We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.


Bertha Calloway

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We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
DOLLY PARTON We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
SOURCE UNKNOWN We can't control the wind, but we have the power to adjust the sails.
UNKNOWN I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
JIMMY DEAN I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
JIMMY DEAN I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destinati...
JIMMY DEAN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.
GREEN DAY The injury really took the wind out of our sails. It's tough on a young team, but hopefully we can r...
JAMIE NEBEKER The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.
JOSE MOURINHO We cannot wish for that we know not.
VOLTAIRE The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl...
ANGIE KARAN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
VOLTAIRE For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
BARBARA JORDAN We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
MAX DE PREE We cannot learn men from books.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER Somewhere in the ruins above them, the cats are howling.
ANTHONY DOERR The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister.
TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma...
TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th...
TRISHA LEAVER We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
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NICK HORNBY It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
JIM ROHN We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
P. CHIDAMBARAM But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE We cannot gamble with American lives. I will not gamble with American lives.
JOHN F. KELLY We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
EAMON DE VALERA We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
CARLES PUIGDEMONT We bank on getting those big runs. When we get rolling like that, it takes the wind out of the other...
DAVID ALSTON We definitely took the wind out of their sails a little bit. We got some quick looks, which gives yo...
EILEEN KLEINFELTER That took the wind out of our sails.
GEORGE MORROW Fair stood the wind for France, / When we our sails advance, / Nor now to prove our chance, / Longer...
MICHAEL DRAYTON That really took the wind out of our sails,
JAMES STILL this may take the wind out of their sails.
HUSAIN HAQQANI Wisdom sails with wind and time.
JOHN FLORIO Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to...
ADAM CLARKE Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic...
ODO SIMON AGBO Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We rest here while we can, but we hear the ocean calling in our dreams, And we know by the morning, ...
MICHAEL LILLE We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.
XAVIER BECERRA We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.
SAINT STEPHEN We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
DOROTHY DAY We cannot kill or capture our way out of an industrial-strength insurgency.
DAVID PETRAEUS We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our respon...
JOSIAH STAMP The reconnection of society, economy and ethics is a project we cannot postpone.
MICHAEL D. HIGGINS We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON Why did we name it Big Bertha? I don't know. Because it's big. Everything big gets named Big Bertha.
ADAM ZULEGER I try to use the landline whenever I can. We cannot do without the mobile phones, but we don't n...
JUHI CHAWLA The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS We were never able to get that all-important three-goal lead and knock the wind out of their sails. ...
BOB EMERY We were better than the Marlins last year. We were supposed to battle them to the end, but we had no...
JOEY EISCHEN Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thin...
PETER KREEFT Candace had a couple three-pointers that took the wind out of their sails. And we had our inside gam...
EILEEN KLEINFELTER You don’t command wind in the direction it blows, but you command a ship in the direction it sails...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO (Hasek) was the reason we won. It was really tough taking those penalties in the first seven minutes...
BRYAN SMOLINSKI I thought after Bertha and Fran, our luck had run out. But we dodged it.
CECIL LOGAN Desire is the wind in your sails more than it is your destination, so keep your sails wide open, and...
ZENSHINE That home run kind of took the wind out of our sails.
BRIAN CAHOON If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It took a little wind out of our sails.
KARLYN SUPPLE When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.
ANGELA MERKEL We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
ALAN WATTS We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
M. SCOTT PECK We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
MAHMOUD ABBAS We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
BERNARD MELTZER We can learn something from Marxist thinking, but we cannot follow Marxist methods.
SUN YAT-SEN We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world.
ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.
ERIK ERIKSON Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.
ALAIN RENE LE SAGE Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
JEAN PAUL I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.
AUDREY TAUTOU Standing on the edge of that darkness, she felt the stirrings of reckless want. A wild sort of brave...
EMILY LLOYD-JONES Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become.
CRAIG GROESCHEL So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY If you can't control the wind, adjust your sail.
UNKNOWN We hit the ball real well the first two innings and that gave us a huge edge. It took the wind out o...
BILL TUSSEY Because the body never knows what you're going to do next, it cannot adapt, and we avoid the dreaded...
LEAH ARNOLD We just didn't adjust our attack to what they were doing defensively. We controlled the game but we ...
ART MUNOZ The pessimist complains about the direction of the wind, the optimist expects the direction to chang...
UNKNOWN That kind of took the wind out of our sails. We talked about how we wanted to maintain ball control ...
BILL GLENN We have been at this for 25 years and we had hoped to be in commercial production by now. What the p...
JEFF PASSMORE Certainly after the 9-0 run late it took the wind out of our sails.
GREG GARMEN Love is like the wind, you cannot see it but you can feel it.
NICHOLAS SPARKS (THE NOTEBOOK) May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN When we lost Adam last year, it really took the wind out of our sails for a while. I don't want to l...
DICK MCCONNELL This ship is righted again, I think, and we've got the wind in our sails.
KEITH BURNS The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the s...
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
SAMUEL ADAMS We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot h...
HARRIET MARTINEAU We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
CARL JUNG We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
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