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Quotes About Whirlwind

As the war raced to its bloody finale, Ursula was swept up in an exhausting whirlwind of espionage, child-rearing, and housework: on any given day she might be coordinating intelligence gathered from her father, brother, Tom, the chemist, and others in her network, gathering intelligence from the Tool missions, while hanging out the washing, doing the dishes, and struggling to keep the domestic ship afloat at Avenue Cottage.
~ Ben Macintyre
I think that's what it is, that it's all happened at once, so I have the emotional bends.
~ Gillian Flynn
In the eye of the tornado, there's no more high and low, no floor and sky.
~ Francis Alys
No. Not for saving my life. Besides, that's in your canine DNA. Like a St. Bernard." "A whirlwind of deadly blows," she reminded him.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart
~ Sappho
And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
~ Joseph Addison
And, pleased th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirl-wind, and directs the storm.
~ Joseph Addison
God preserve the United States. We know the Race is not to the swift nor the Battle to the Strong. Do you not think an Angel rides in the Whirlwind and directs this Storm?
~ Benson Bobrick
When I first won my WWE Championship, I just got to TV - I believe I was there five months. Everything just happened so fast; it was like a whirlwind.
~ Sheamus
My memories of the whirlwind '90s are a blur of work schedules. I was completing my B. Com. degree in 1991 when I took to modelling and acting in TV serials. A year later, I found my foothold in movies.
~ Sonali Bendre
Don't make the Divine a nincompoop's idea, of being a man-like entity. What you see here is merely a wandering whirlwind of Infinity.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Wind is what happens when air falls in love with itself.
~ Barry Webster
For random events to produce even a single protein would seem a stunning improbability—like a whirlwind spinning through a junkyard and leaving behind a fully assembled jumbo jet
~ Bill Bryson
When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else. —Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
~ Brene Brown
When I think about 2017, I feel like it was just another year. It was a whirlwind, but I wouldn't have wanted it to play out any other way. I'm glad I was in New York. There's nowhere else I would rather play, and there's no other group of teammates that I would rather be around.
~ Aaron Judge
Julia was like a tornado, and she left chaos wherever she went.
~ Kate Morgenroth
Smog hung all round the horizon, the sun on the bright beige countryside was painful; she and the Chevy seemed parked at the centre of an odd, religious instant. As if, on some other frequency, or out of the eye of some whirlwind rotating too slow for her heated skin even to feel the centrifugal coolness of, words were being spoken.
~ Thomas Pynchon
The lights, the azaleas, the dresses, the pink faces, the velvet chairs, all became one beautiful flying wheel.
~ Katherine Mansfield
3And in those days a whirlwind carried me off from the earth, and set me down at the end of the heavens. 4There I saw another vision, the dwelling-places of the holy and the righteous. 5Here my eyes saw their dwellings with His righteous angels and the holy. And they asked, interceded, and prayed for the children of men, and righteousness flowed before them like water, and mercy like dew upon the earth. Thus it is among them forever.
~ Ken Johnson
One could say that he (Jesus Christ) himself was the ripe fruit of antiquity; he gathered up in himself the essence of the wisdom of the Near East, contained the juice of Egypt and of Greece, and came together with the mob. And that caused a great whirlwind which moved masses and formed them, which brought about that form which we call Christianity. Jung, C. G.. Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar given in 1934-1939. Two Volumes: 1-2, unabridged (Jung Seminars) (p. 1032)
~ C.G. Jung
Everything is happening too fast for me to process it.
~ Suzanne Collins
Even now as I write, they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves!" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote in his diary on December 2. "This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind, which will come soon.
~ Tony Horwitz
My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.
~ Carol Vorderman
And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
~ Joseph Addison