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Quotes About Storms

The ugliest storms paint the loveliest rainbows.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A sailor is not defined as much by how many seas he has sailed than by how many storms he has overcome.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The sky belongs to eagles, even during storms.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Oh! teach my heart that chilling lore That the world hath taught to Thee. While I am on the sunny shore, What are the ocean storms to Me? Oh! some that with me used to sail, Now wreck'd 'neath the waters lie; But we have felt no adverse gale, We will coldly pass them by.
~ Thomas Haynes Bayly
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
~ Thomas Hobbes
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. Unsuccesful rebellions indeed generally establish the incroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medecine necessary for the sound health of government.
~ Thomas Jefferson
They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain chain fluttering and sucked away again in the dark. They saw wild horses racing on the plain, pounding their shadows down the night and- leaving in the moonlight a vaporous dust like the palest stain of their passing.
~ Cormac McCarthy
They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard
~ Cormac McCarthy
They watch stoms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain chain fluttering and sucked away again in the dark.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.
~ Walt Whitman
Sea of stretch'd ground-swells, Sea breathing broad and convulsive breaths, Sea of the brine of life and of unshovell'd yet always-ready graves, Howler and scooper of storms, capricious and dainty sea, I am integral with you, I too am of one phase and of all phases.
~ Walt Whitman
A lover persevere in his suit under very discouraging circumstances. Affection can withstand very severe storms of rigor, but no a long polar frost of downright indifference. Don't, even with your attractions, try the experiment upon any lover whose faith you value. Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope, but no altogether without it.
~ Walter Scott
If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.
~ Charles Stanley
There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love.
~ Charles Stanley
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail.
~ John Muir, Our National Parks
He continued on, on to the glacier, towards the dawn, from ridge to ridge, in deep, new-fallen snow, paying no heed to the storms that might pursue him. As a child he had stood by the seashore at Ljósavík and watched the waves soughing in and out, but now he was heading away from the sea. "Think of me when you are in glorious sunshine." Soon the sun of the day of resurrection will shine on the bright paths where she awaits her poet. And beauty shall reign alone.
~ Halldor Laxness
Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.
~ Hannah More
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
~ Hannah More
Give winter nothing; hold; and let the flake Poise or dissolve along your upheld arms. All flawless hexagons may melt and break; While you must feel the summer's rage of fire, Beyond this frigid season's empty storms. Banished to bloom, and bear the birds' desire.
~ James Wright
But it is in storms that God does his finest work, for it is in storms that God has our keenest attention
~ Max Lucado
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Do not leave yourself or your family unprotected against financial storms... Build up savings.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
We won't be able to stop disasters from happening. On the contrary, climate change may increase the frequency and severity of floods, droughts and storms. But we are better equipped today to prepare for them and reduce their impact.
~ Sri Mulyani Indrawati
What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.
~ David Lloyd George