Storm Quotes - page 3

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature. (Ann Druyan)
Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God's grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life. View quote
Marcus Garvey
The sea is whipping the sky The sky is whipping the sea You can hide away forever from the storm But you'll never hide away from me. View quote
Jim Steinman
You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm. View quote
Sam Harris
... no one who has passed through the storm has ever regretted the journey. No one stands here and wishes to go back to the other side. View quote
Glenn Beck
Storm clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country... They must not be allowed to bring eternal night. View quote
Boris Yeltsin
Jesus, lover of my soul, let me to Thy bosom fly, While the nearer waters roll, while the tempest still is high. Hide me, O my Savior, hide, till the storm of life is past; Safe into the haven guide; O receive my soul at last. View quote
Charles Wesley
True courage scorns To vent her prowess in a storm of words; And, to the valiant, actions speak alone. View quote
Tobias Smollett
Thy spirit, Independence, let me share, Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye. Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. View quote
Tobias Smollett
Large newspapers are routinely censored by legal costs. It is time this stopped. It is time a country said, enough is enough, justice must be seen, history must be preserved, and we will give shelter from the storm. View quote
Julian Assange
If you surrender, you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I have to storm your works, you may expect no quarter. (Nathan Bedford Forrest)
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. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. View quote
John Muir
The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love. View quote
John Muir
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies? View quote
Ray Bradbury
The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise. View quote
Joseph Goebbels
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
Your heart is the beacon, your heart is the storm. Dare to embrace it; you'll never be torn. View quote
Vanna Bonta
I'm no reformer; for I see more lightThan darkness in the world; mine eyes are quickTo catch the first dim radiance of the dawn,And slow to note the cloud that threatens storm. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking. View quote
Terry Pratchett
But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is. View quote
Joanna Baillie
I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if cast ashore he would weary and languish no matter how alluring the shady groves and how bright the gentle sun. View quote
Mikhail Lermontov
No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal. View quote
Nicole Krauss