Storms Quotes
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The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well. (Quote by - Epicurus)
Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows. (Quote by - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller)
The earth is rocking, the skies are riven-- Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven. (Quote by - Robert Williams Buchanan)
Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids them fly, Thy arm directs those lightnings through the sky. Then let the good Thy mighty name revere, And hardened sinners Thy just vengeance fear. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the gallery far up beneath the ceiling, the most exalted of the land in the boxes and the stalls, leaned indulgently forward, to be swept by this sweet storm of song. (Quote by - Gilbert Parker)
I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. (Quote by - John Muir)
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm. (Quote by - Euripides)
Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth, And the brook cries like a child! Not a rainbow shines to cheer us; Ah! the sun comes never near us, And the heavens look dark and wile. (Quote by - Mary Howitt)
It is a tempest in a tumbler of water. (Quote by - Paul I)
As far as could ken thy chalky cliffs, When from thy shore the tempest beat us back, I stood upon the hatches in the storm, And when the dusky sky began to rob My earnest-gaping sight of thy land's view, I took a costly jewel from my neck, A heart it was, bound in with diamonds, And threw it toward thy land. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
A storm in a cream bowl. (Quote by - James Butler, first Duke of Ormonde)
My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all. (Quote by - Claudia Black)
The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard. (Quote by - Frances Parkinson Keyes)
Faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is, instead, an inner force that gives them the strength to face those storms and their consequences with serenity of spirit. (Quote by - Sam J. Ervin)
Our Thoughts Determine Our Happiness High above hate I dwell, 0 storms! Farewell. (Quote by - Louise Imogen Guiney)
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love. (Quote by - Dean Koontz)
I hold it, that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured His glassy essence--like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, would all themselves laugh mortal. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron. (Quote by - Lee Trevino)
O Cicero, I have seen tempests when the scolding winds Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen Th' ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam To be exalted with the threat'ning clouds; But never till to-night, never till now, Did I go through a tempest dropping fire. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
A little gale will soon disperse that cloud And blow it to the source from whence it came. Thy very beams will dry those vapors up, For every cloud engenders not a storm. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Lightnings, that show the vast and foamy deep, The rending thunders, as they onward roll, The loud winds, that o'er the billows sweep-- Shake the firm nerve, appal the bravest soul! (Quote by - Mrs. Ann Ward Radcliffe)
He used to raise a storm in a teapot. (Quote by - Cicero)
Ride the air In whirlwind. (Quote by - John Milton)
Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears. (Quote by - Homer)
Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine. (Quote by - Mario Fernandez)
Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings: Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine into flowers, the winds will blow their freshness into you, and the storms, their energy and cares will drop off like autumn leaves. (Quote by - John Muir)
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. (Quote by - Willa Cather)
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm. (Quote by - Charles Kettering)
Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm. (Quote by - George Canning)
The winds grow high; Impending tempests charge the sky; The lightning flies, the thunder roars; And big waves lash the frightened shores. (Quote by - Matthew Prior)
Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. (Quote by - Thomas Mann)
They sicken of the calm that know the storm. (Quote by - Dorothy Parker)
Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
This world to me is like a lasting storm,Whirring me from my friends. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. (Quote by - Golda Meir)
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. (Quote by - Alice M. Swaim)
At first, heard solemn o'er the verge of Heaven, The Tempest growls; but as it nearer comes, And rolls its awful burden on the wind, The Lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The Noise astounds; till overhead a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide, then shuts, And opens wider; shuts and opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. Follows the loosen'd aggravated Roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling, peal on peal, Crush'd, horrible, convulsing Heaven and Earth. (Quote by - James Thomson)
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. (Quote by - Arnold Toynbee)
When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
