Storm

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Quotations about physical storms, or which use the weather phenomena of storms as a metaphor.

• A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
  • John Muir

• Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
  • Arnold J. Toynbee

• Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
  • Lord Byron

• Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
  • Rose Kennedy

• Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
  • Rabindranath Tagore

• Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
  • Euripides

• I know there is a God — I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it — if he has a place then I am ready — we see the hand.
  • John F. Kennedy paraphrasing a statement by Abraham Lincoln; quoted in The New York Times (15 May 1964)

• If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
  • Mohandas Gandhi

• If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
  • Morris West

• Into this house we're born
  Into this world we're thrown
  Like a dog without a bone
  An actor out alone
  Riders on the storm.
  
  • The Doors

• It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
  • Charles Caleb Colton

• It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
  • Frederick Douglass

• It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
  • Bruce Fairchild Barton

• Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
  • Golda Meir

• What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.
  • Henri Frédéric Amiel

• The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
  • Albert Camus

• Stay calm inside! You will then see that outside storms of life, even the most terrible ones, will turn into soft winds.
  • Mehmet ildan, in Quotations

• There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
  • Willa Cather

• There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
  • George Eliot, in Daniel Deronda (1876), Book 3, Ch. 24

• For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
  • George Gissing in The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

• Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere; for a moment our wings are seen in the light of the fire, and, lo! we are gone again into the Nowhere.
  • H. Rider Haggard, in King Solomon's Mines

• We are not this story's author, who fills time and eternity with his purpose. Yet his purpose is achieved in our duty; and our duty is fulfilled in service to one another. Never tiring, never yielding, never finishing, we renew that purpose today: to make our country more just and generous; to affirm the dignity of our lives and every life. This work continues. This story goes on. And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.
  • George Walker Bush, First inaugural address (20 January 2001)

• 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?
  • John Page in a letter to Thomas Jefferson (20 July 1776), quoting a phrase from Ecclesiastes 9:11.

• Now, nation, arise and storm break loose!
  • Josef Goebells: Total War Speech

[edit] See also

• Tornado

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