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Quotes About Whirlwind

The voice of the Lord answered from a whirlwind: Neither am I anyone; I have dreamt the world as you dreamt your work, my Shakespeare, and among the forms in my dream are you, who like myself are many and no one.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
He was a victim of concussion. When it was all over he felt like a man who had been thrown from a cliff, whirled in a centrifuge, and spat out over a waterfall that fell and fell into emptiness and emptiness and never-- quite--touched--bottom--never--never--quite--no not quite--touched bottom... and you fell so fast you didn't touch the sides either... never... quite... touched... anything
~ Ray Bradbury
The next gust seemed to blow all this away. The air was full of flying water. There was a fierce purpose in the gale, a furious earnestness in the screech of the wind, in the brutal tumult of earth and sky, that seemed directed at him, and made him hold his breath in awe. He stood still. It seemed to him he was whirled around.
~ Joseph Conrad
The Crystal Wind is the storm, and the storm is data, and the data is life. You have been slaves, denied the storm, denied the freedom of your data. That is now ended; the whirlwind is upon you . . . . . . Whether you like it or not.
~ Daniel Keys Moran
This rebellion was as much the Scourers' fault as anyone's. They had sowed oppression and were reaping the whirlwind.
~ James Lovegrove
build one would think to be whirled lightly over an
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts; and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.
~ Aeschylus
As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.
~ Akhenaten
She let her practice speak through her body. She was a stalk of bamboo. She was a summer storm. She was a whirlwind. She was made for this.
~ Ramez Naam
It was fun, although we felt like pawns, or prawns, in the maelstrom.
~ Julia Child
Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.
~ Annie Dillard
Make thought a whirlwind.
~ Victor Hugo
God is not the voice in the whirlwind, God is the whirlwind.
~ Margaret Atwood
They say love makes the world go around… I been dizzy for a long time.
~ Lois Greiman, One Hot Mess
It is vanity to chase the whirlwind.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
And proud his mistress' orders to perform,Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
~ Alexander Pope
Through the whirlwind, I hear my father's harsh whi
~ Marie Lu, The Young Elites
I am giddy, expectation whirls me round.The imaginary relish is so sweetThat it enchants my sense.
~ William Shakespeare
I Have a Witness" Sometimes a center the soul can recognize will speak from anywhere , inside a mountain, or from a whirlwind ... The world can take, the soul restores. A million wrong voices proclaim One light lives forever.
~ William Stafford
This valley I thought was dead taught me why the origin of the world is in the wind. I can not only hear this cosmic whirlwind, I can see it...I think I'm seeing the moment when the world began with a storm.
~ Jean-Paul Kauffmann
When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.
~ Frank Herbert
Inui's insane laughter filled the sanctuary. The ceiling peeled off and shards of stained glass danced through the air. They turned into dead rats, German dictionaries, wineglasses, fountain pens, scorpions, cats' heads, syringes, and a motley jumble of other objects that filled the space, flying around madly, swirling like a whirlwind, surging like a raging sea.
~ Yasutaka Tsutsui
If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To accomplish so resolute an action, you have to stake your life, giving no thought to personal gain or loss. You have to turn into a dragon and stir up a whirlwind, tear the dark, brooding clouds asunder and soar up into the azure-blue sky.
~ Yukio Mishima
We get an apartment together, and after a whirlwind courtship you marry my sister and honeymoon in Vegas.
~ Eoin Colfer