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Quotes About Storm

Try tropic for your balm,Try storm,And after storm, calm.Try snow of heaven, heavy, soft, and slow,Brilliant and warm.Nothing will help, and nothing do much harm.
~ Genevieve Taggard
Lord, this is an huge rayn!This were a weder for to slepen inne!
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
The risen Christ! Once more faith is upon us, a jubilant brief keening with respite: Obedience, bitter joy, the elements, clouds, winds, louvres where the bell makes its wild mouths: Holy Rus – into the rain's horizons, peacock-dyed tail feathers of storm, so it goes on.
~ Geoffrey Hill
was a granite island of calm. When the turbulent storms rocked her inner world, until she was no longer sure where reality ended and the hungry madness inside her began, she clung to that island
~ Ilona Andrews
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. ~ Willa Cather
~ Inglath Cooper
After the calm comes the storm; it starts out slowly, reaches its peak, then it's over and other periods of calm, some longer, some shorter, come along. It's just been our bad luck to be born in a century full of storms, that's all. They'll die down.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Che cosa vuoi capire? Non c'è niente da capire, le rispose cercando di calmarla. Ci sono leggi che regolano il mondo e che non sono fatte né per noi né contro di noi. Quando scoppia il temporale, sai che il fulmine è il prodotto di due scariche elettriche opposte, le nuvole non sanno nulla di te. Non puoi prendertela con loro. Inoltre sarebbe ridicolo, non possono capirti.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
It only seems like that, Jeanne. It all seems caused by this man or that, by one circumstance or another, but it's like in nature: after the calm comes the storm; it starts out slowly, reaches its peak, then it's over and other periods of calm, some longer, some shorter, come along. It's just been our bad luck to be born in a century full of storms, that's all. They'll die down.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Sometimes God Calms the Storm…Sometimes He Lets the Storm Rage and Calms His Child.
~ Ira Byock
Yet she knew that it was not really the sharp tragic knife of passion that disturbed her now, it was some vaguer nervous storm out of her unsatisfied woman's nature.
~ Iris Murdoch
Mr. Advocate, the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had. The storm-blast whistles through the branches of the Empire even now. Listen with the ears of psychohistory, and you will hear the creaking.
~ Isaac Asimov
Ya lo sé: aquí y ahora. Debemos regocijarnos con la belleza de este momento, en vez de pensar en la tormenta que vendrá...
~ Isabel Allende
They sicken of calm, who know the storm.
~ Dorothy Parker
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm.
~ William Cowper
I headed towards the mountain, which was an almost irresistible beacon to my storm self. It glowed with heat, pressure, and turbulence—everything a little dust devil like me could want.
~ Rick Riordan
If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.
~ Nathan Bedford Forrest
You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!
~ Leo Tolstoy
Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.
~ Dan Quayle
Outside was the calm that sat in front of a July storm, the kind of cloudy stillness that said you'd better get you and your bicycle on home before a gully washer let loose.
~ Susan Crandall
God is in the storm. That though the winds blow and my life feels torn apart, if I can just trust Him, I'll discover Him at the center.
~ Susan May Warren
God doesn't promise to keep the storm away, but He says He'll be with me through it. My faith won't protect me from the loss, but it will carry me and keep me from despair.~page 195
~ Susan May Warren
God is in the storm. Though the winds blow, and my life feels torn apart, if I can just trust Him, I'll discover Him at the center.
~ Susan May Warren
Funny that when skies were clear, he was the storm. But in the middle of the storm…He was the calm.
~ Susan May Warren
Sometimes the nearness of a storm may deafen us to distant thunder.
~ Susan Weiner