“ And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 3K
“ God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. ”
- John Muir- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all. ”
- Will Carleton- Copy
- 1.5K
“ It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls. ”
- Bruce Barton- Copy
- 1.5K
“ 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- Copy
- 437
“ It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 3.5K
“ If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep? No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm! ”
- George Canning- Copy
- 4K
“ The primary threat posed by Hurricane Katrina is going to be flooding from storm surge, so those being evacuated just need to make sure they reach higher ground. ”
- Bob Riley- Copy
- 298
“ There is not such a thing as a good hurricane,... The second myth is that hurricanes travel in a straight line. ”
- Jeb Bush- Copy
- 1.9K
“ There's lots of warm water around and that's where hurricanes get their fuel, so that's giving us the potential for more storms and more intense storms. ”
- Steve Miller- Copy
- 1.2K
“ If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death. ”
- Pythagoras- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. ”
- Epicurus- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 445
“ My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself… ”
- Trieu Thi Trinh- Copy
- 1.4K
“ If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
- 4K
“ Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
- 2.5K
“ My home…It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
- 4K
“ Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 197
“ The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. ”
- Epictetus- Copy
- 2.4K
“ We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world. ”
- A. E. Housman- Copy
- 230
“ Not a single spectator remained on his feet! Men, women children, all lay prostrate like ears of corn under a tempest. There ensued a terrible tumult; a large number of persons were seriously injured. J. T. Maston, who, despite all dictates of prudence, had kept in advance of the mass, was pitched back 120 feet, shooting like a projectile over the heads of his fellow-citizens. ”
- Jules Verne- Copy
- 98
“ I will light candles this Christmas Candles of joy, despite all sadness, Candles of hope where despair keeps watch. Candles of courage where fear is every present, Candles of peace for tempest-tossed days, Candles of grace to ease heavy burdens. Candles of love to inspire all my living, Candles that will burn all the year long… ”
- Howard Thurman- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.6K
“ It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth… and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 603
“ Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp! cries she with silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door… ”
- Emma Lazarus- Copy
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