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Quotes About Tempestuous

It's a volatile time.
~ Jeb Bush
I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
~ Mackenzie Davis
When you're a French woman and you have a lot of Latin blood, you can be very dramatic. It definitely makes your personal life exciting - and exhausting.
~ Josephine de La Baume
In it he shifted from classical orthodoxy by denying the short-term efficacy of the quantity theory of money, while accepting its truth 'in the long run in which we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.'15
~ Richard Davenport-Hines
The wind, Tempestuous clarion, with heavy cry, Came bluntly thundering, more terrible Than the revenge of music on bassoons.
~ Wallace Stevens
'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild.
~ William Collins
Huge sea of sorrow, and tempestuous griefe, Wherein my feeble barke is tossed long, Far from the hoped hauen of reliefe, Why doe thy cruel billowes beat so strong, And thy moyst mountaines each on others throng, Threatening to swallow vp my fearfull lyfe?
~ Edmund Spenser
The ice is not very thick; the ocean beneath it is deep and tempestuous; and the sun above is warm and melting.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.
~ Dinah Shore
Friends and family argue and fight, but it means nothing. It's human nature. Love isn't perfectly patient or kind or sunny. Love is volatile and tempestuous and forgiving.
~ Alyssa Day
I have a son, but I've never had a daughter. I have a sister, and my sister had a fairly tempestuous relationship with my dad when she was young, and that was gripping and sometimes upsetting.
~ Howard Jacobson
Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, Nature was his book; And, as revolving SEASONS chang'd the scene From heat to cold, tempestuous to serene, Though every change still varied his employ, Yet each new duty brought its share of joy.
~ Robert Bloomfield
There was a typhoon the day you were born... It is said that a Dragon born in a storm will have a particularly tempestuous fate. You always believe you are right, and this makes you do things you shouldn't... You're a Dragon, and of all the signs only a Dragon can tame the fates. Only a Dragon can wear all the horns of destiny, duty, and power. Your sister is merely a Sheep...
~ Lisa See
He seems to be a man incapable of calm and reasoning reflection; the victim of a succession of unreasoning impulses."113
~ Ron Chernow
Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
...the best secretary of state since Dean Acheson. I say that because he and Bush 41 had an incredibly tempestuous period in history, and they navigated through it with great success.
~ John Robert Bolton
I worship pianos like they are prize diamonds, and I never willfully do damage to them. But I grew up playing guitars, and you treat a guitar like a best friend or a little brother or a lover you have a tempestuous relationship with.
~ Jamie Cullum
She had the theory of youth about love, that it was a violent thing, tempestuous and passionate. She thought that love demanded, not knowing that love gives first, and then asks.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
~ Joseph Conrad
Abituata alla tranquillità, desiderava per contrasto tutto ciò che era movimentato. Amava il mare soltanto per le sue tempeste, e la vegetazione soltanto se cresceva a stento e rada in mezzo alle rovine.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.
~ Alan Huffman
All sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable- they live in the varying outer weather and they inhale it's fickleness
~ Herman Melville
No one has a deeper or more tempestuous relationshipship with Innocence than you.
~ Katsura Hoshino
O stormy peple! unsad and evere untrewe!
~ Geoffrey Chaucer