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Quotes About Storm

We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by.
~ John Harrison
Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.
~ Alvar N. C. de Vaca
Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
went home thinking about the duality of being an immigrant, our split identities, the cleaving of our hearts and bodies—half of our heart remained in our homeland, the other was here with us. One foot remained rooted in our native soil while with our other foot we dug into American soil to anchor ourselves and weather the storm.
~ Reyna Grande
How can you promise?" Emily found herself near to tears. "You can't stop a storm, and if it's going to . . ." Another huge clap of thunder exploded overhead.
~ Rhys Bowen
she watched the storm move off on lightning legs.
~ Richard Matheson
Szilard's good friend and fellow Hungarian, the theoretical physicist Eugene Wigner, who was studying chemical engineering at the Technische Hochschule at the time of Szilard's conversion, watched him take the University of Berlin by storm.
~ Richard Rhodes
Over spring mountains A star ends the paragraph Of a thunderstorm.
~ Richard Wright
Miranda, honey, sit down. I wish you'd eat something." Peering out the window, Aunt Teeta gave a shudder. "Y'all be sure and take umbrellas. There's supposed to be a doozy of a storm coming in." "How much of a doozy?" Etienne asked. "Medium doozy or big doozy?" Aunt Teeta flapped her dishtowel at him. " Monster doozy. Big bad winds, flash-flood rain, and maybe even tornadoes kind of doozy.
~ Richie Tankersley Cusick
Can we just call them storm spirits?" Leo asked. "Venti makes them sound like evil espresso drinks.
~ Rick Riordan
Percy, Apollo said, I wouldn't worry too much. The last Great Prophecy about you took almost seventy years to complete. This one may not even happen in your lifetime. I thought about the lines Rachel had spoken in that creepy voice: about storm and fire and the Doors of Death. Maybe, I said, but it didn't sound so good. No, said Apollo cheerfully. It certainly didn't. She's going to make a wonderful Oracle!
~ Rick Riordan
The whole crew sat on the deck, without a storm or a monster attack to worry about for the first time in days, and ate ice cream. Well, except for Frank, who was lactose intolerant. He got an apple.
~ Rick Riordan
Set's storm is gathering," Amos said with a twinkle in his eyes. "Shall we drive into is?
~ Rick Riordan
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
know to be a safe port in a storm?" Flora suddenly remembered her dream, how warm William Spiver's hand had felt in her own. She blushed. Whom did she trust? Good grief, she trusted William Spiver.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Words flooded like the storm's surge in a wild burst of anger that took me utterly by surprise.
~ Kate Elliott
By fire, fever, storm and sword, your blood shall suffer this bane. No peace or joy for Wintersloe's lord, till the puzzle ring is whole again
~ Kate Forsyth
Kaikki neljä pysyivät jonkin aikaa liikkumatta, kun myrsky yltyi, ja salaman leimahdus valaisi heidän suojansa. Pitkän miehen ja vanhan naisen merkillisen jähmeä asento tuntui loitsivan Axlin ja Beatricen, ja molemmat olivat vaiti aloillaan. Oli melkein kuin he olisivat itse törmänneet kuvaan, astuneet sen sisään ja muuttuneet itsekin maalatuiksi hahmoiksi.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
No storm can shake my inmost calm While to that rock I'm clinging Since Love is Lord of heaven and earth How can I keep from singing?
~ Ken Follett
La tormenta que había estallado en su corazón amainó ligeramente. La penumbra y el frescor del interior, entre los imponentes muros de piedra, le hicieron sentir la trascendencia de la eternidad. Los problemas terrenales eran temporales, incluso los peores: ese era el mensaje que transmitía el templo a sus visitantes. El corazón volvió a latirle con normalidad.
~ Ken Follett
So they caught Gadhafi in a storm sewer and shot him. Or as they call it in the Middle East, an orderly transfer of power.
~ David Letterman
In every storm there is a 'Peace! Be still' Christ will speak where prayer's call invites Him.
~ Jack W. Hayford
The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.
~ Saul Bellow
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson