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Quotes About Whirlwind

Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe they have the power of love yet in their hearts just the same, I just don't know what that word means anymore- All I want is an ice cream cone
~ Jack Kerouac
Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is on the verge of riot; and so soon as it appears, he begins to quiver, and to feel himself borne away by the whirlwind.
~ Victor Hugo
Make thought a whirlwind.
~ Victor Hugo
My head feels like a snow globe that's been shaken, and glitter is swirling around in it like unmoored stars.
~ Laini Taylor
The venom sang in him, and he was something more than human. He was a whirlwind. He was a god.
~ Laini Taylor
I-I have to go, she began, then bit her lip as she realized she was stuttering again-a habit she seemed to have developed in the past twenty-four hours.Forgetting her sketch pad, she stepped off the rock and prepared to make an undignified dash for her car. In the next instant she was whirled around. His face was set, his breathing unsteady. I was wrong. His voice filled her head, emptying it of everything else. I have a great deal of trouble resisting you.
~ Nora Roberts
Although divine bewilderment addresses its grief to the universe, it only cries out to it. It has to find its answer, if at all, in its own final act. It is not to be found among the answers God gave to Job in a whirlwind.
~ Norman Maclean
This is the urgency: Live! And have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows,While proudly riding o'er the azure realmIn gallant trim the gilded vessel goes;Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm;Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway,That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
~ Thomas Gray
And the voice of God was in the whirlwind after all, said Thor
~ Orson Scott Card
Out of that whirlwind no voice spoke and the pilgrim lying in his broken bones may cry out and in his anguish he may rage, but rage at what? And if the dried and blackened shell of him is found among the sands by travelers to come yet who can discover the engine of his ruin?
~ Cormac McCarthy
I am the very child of caprice and folly.
~ Walter Scott
I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me -- and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Bright, dreadful flashes of lightning rent the darkness and Kali's reply was drowned by a peal of thunder which shook heaven and the wilderness. Simultaneously a whirlwind broke out, tugged the boughs of the tree swept away in the twinkling of an eye the camp-fire, seized the embers, still burning under the ashes, and carried them with sheaves of sparks into the jungle.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
I'm nothing but air and wind. I'm part of the blizzard.
~ Tove Jansson
We served the imperative of history as specks of dust in the whirlwind and were privileged to participate in the end of our world.
~ Unknown
Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows.
~ Unknown
Those one hundred and eighty seconds with Esben somehow threw me into a whirlwind. Either I get slammed to the ground by that force or I soar.
~ Jessica Park
In a whirlwind world, independent languor becomes a virtue, and meditation engenders a finer art than any nervousness
~ Vachel Lindsay
She wanders on like a poplar leaf borne upon a whirlwind of unconscious associations, she, her youth, her illusions and her former happiness remembered now through the mists of a ruined mind.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
The last 24hours of my life have been crazy!
~ Unknown
Rumor flies.
~ Virgil
Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Like a white-haired whirlwind, Janet embraced the younger, taller woman with a deep sigh.
~ Diana Palmer