Quotes About Storm
The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm "O God you will save me if you wish but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight."
~ Michel de Montaigne
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Ante una tormenta del desierto, ante las fauces del león, ante un ejército formado por decenas de miles de soldados -dijo Atila-, se puede cabalgar sin miedo. Pero ante la ira de una viuda...
~ William Napier
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Polar Bear?" "Yeah, Red Fox?" "When the two of us come paddlin' in, you bring on them dancin' girls." The radio crackled. "Hear?" "You bet, Red Fox," Kazaklis replied, fighting hopelessly against his faltering voice. Moreau gazed into the cockpit canopy through the blur of moistened eyes and saw the pilot snap a cocky thumbs-up at them. "Luck!" she and Kazaklis said simultaneously. But before the word was out, the gleaming fighter was gone and the B-52 plowed head-on into the murk of the storm.
~ William Prochnau
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That sir which serves and seeks for gain,And follows but for form,Will pack when it begins to rain,And leave thee in the storm.
~ William Shakespeare
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Like a red morn, that ever yet betoken'dWrack to the seaman, tempest to the field.
~ William Shakespeare
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We think it is calm here, or that our storm is the right size.
~ William Stafford
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The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.
~ William Styron
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But the sweet face of Lucy Gray Will never more be seen. The storm came on before its time: She wandered up and down; And many a hill did Lucy climb: But never reached the town.
~ William Wordsworth
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A deep distress hath humanized my Soul. - Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle, in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont
~ William Wordsworth
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Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could later paint the storm. Obviously, it was not the storm itself that Turner intended to paint. What he intended to paint was a representation of the storm. One's language is frequently imprecise in that manner, I have discovered.
~ David Markson
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I feel persecuted by the power of mother nature, who dwarfs my farm with her unpredictable character. Yet I cling to a spirit of survival. I observe others, my family and neighbors, as we brace for the storm with a humbling humility.
~ David Mas Masumoto
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Hard work, says the Scottish proverb, never killed a man. People die of boredom and disease. There is nothing like an occasional all-night push to enliven morale – provided you are part of the push. Never leave the bridge in a storm.
~ David Ogilvy
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Calm me, O Lord, as You stilled the storm; Still me, O Lord; keep me from harm. Let all the storms within me cease. Enfold me, Lord, in Your peace. Amen. —CELTIC PRAYER
~ David P. Gushee
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Als de hemel donker wordt met zwarte donderwolken, de grote bomen zwaaien in de wind, de pauwen zingen, hunker ik ernaar terug te rennen naar Gir.
~ David Quammen
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Life is like a storm. At its worst, it's full of blinding fury, rage, and destruction. However, at its best, it is full of striking beauty and wonder.
~ Tanner Walling
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The uglier the storm the lovelier the rainbow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
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It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
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Do not be sorrow in the storm. Let the joy of Lord be your strength to smile.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
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You will not be able to find outer calmness if your heart is carrying a storm.
~ Debasish Mridha
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The afternoon has closed down, gone purple, coaxed and sucked dark by the storm.
~ Jayne Anne Phillips
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We're all hoping that the remains of the Nueva Cadiz haven't been moved by the storm out of Rafe's lease sites. "If they have been," Tia says, "I'll go out at night and move them back, piece by piece.
~ Jean Ferris
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Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.
~ Jean Paul Richter
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Storm Ending Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers, Rumbling in the wind, Stretching clappers to strike our ears . . . Full-lipped flowers Bitten by the sun Bleeding rain Dripping rain like golden honey— And the sweet earth flying from the thunder.
~ Jean Toomer
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Second-hand porn from the looks of it. But any porn in a storm, he thought.
~ Jean Ure
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