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Quotes About Storm

I think, generally speaking as a player, when I hear the word 'scout,' it's usually, 'The Seattle Storm are playing the L.A. Sparks tomorrow; the assistant coaches are scouting the L.A. Sparks.' And then they come to us and give a scouting report on the players and the team.
~ Sue Bird
I look at basketball as like a storm. But it's the eye of the storm. The calmest place of it is to be right in the eye of it. And that's what basketball is for me; it's my eye. And while everything else around me is going on,' he continued, 'the destruction and things like that, basketball keeps me calm.
~ Marcus Smart
I think, overall, the name 'The Storm' in Seattle has just continued to grow. It has now become not just an afterthought that we have a WNBA team here: it has become a part of the 'fabric' of our sports society.
~ Sue Bird
You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
~ Bertolt Brecht
God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.
~ Bob Riley
It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful.
~ Philip Johnson
Summer lightning made it seem that flickering white-hot wires were turning in the terribly blue sky just above the horizon, and the recent storms had driven in toward shore hundreds of gigantic Portuguese man-o'-wars that now hung below the surface of the water like big malignant pearls.
~ Tim Powers
Once, a preacher joined a postal carrier making his rounds in No Man's Land. The sky turned black and lightning flashed. Bolts struck the ground and electrified barbed-wire fences. The preacher cowered for cover. The carrier told him to relax. "God isn't that awful," he said. "Lightning will never strike a mailman or a preacher." Within ten years, God would change moods.
~ Timothy Egan
Non chiedere di avere una salute perfetta Sarebbe avidità Fai della sofferenza la tua medicina E non aspettarti una strada senza ostacoli Senza quel fuoco la tua luce si spegnerebbe Usa della tempesta per liberarti.
~ Tiziano Terzani
Let the storm have its will of man – but let storm and poem reach their end, I pray, each at the same time!
~ Ovid
The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
It was one of those heavy, sultry afternoons when nature seems to be saying to itself, 'Now, shall I, or shall I not, scare the pants off these people with a hell of a thunderstorm?
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The morning is full of storm in the heart of summer. The clouds travel like white handkerchiefs of goodbye, the wind, travelling, waving them in its hands. The numberless heart of the wind beating above our loving silence. Orchestral and divine, resounding among the trees like a language full of wars and songs.
~ Pablo Neruda
Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world, on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed, rampaging like a train...
~ Pablo Neruda
Longing that sliced my breast into pieces, it is time to take another road, on which she does not smile. Storm that buried the bells, muddy swirl of torments, why touch her now, why make her sad. Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.
~ Pablo Neruda
Longing that sliced my breast into pieces, it is time to take another road, on which she does not smile. Storm that buried the bells, muddy swirl of torments, why touch her now, why make her sad.
~ Pablo Neruda
Ah, bir su ve y?ld?z yolculuÄŸudur sevmek, bunalt?c? hava ve unun ans?z?n kopan f?rt?nas?yla: ÅžimÅŸeklerin kap??mas?d?r sevmek, h?rpalanm?? iki beden, ayn? baldan geçerek.
~ Pablo Neruda
I learned that politicians are not supposed to help people. They simply listen to people, nod their heads painfully, commiserate at proper intervals, promise to do all they can, and then do nothing. It was very instructive. I could probably have enlisted more action from a bleached jellyfish washed ashore in a seasonal storm.
~ Pat Conroy
Lightning flashed around the island; thunder played its favorite game of scaring the crap out of all the shivering mortals on the earth below.
~ Pat Conroy
When you think "whirlwind," think "God is coming.
~ Dallas Willard
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
~ Willa Cather
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy! I look to you for protection. I will hide beneath the shadow of your wings until this violent storm is past.
~ Psalm 57:1
Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.
~ Ovid
To make decisions while infuriated is as unwise and foolish as it is for a captain to put out to sea in a raging storm.
~ ElRay L. Christiansen