Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Gilmore Simms

Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.

Valerie Jarrett

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

William Gurnall

The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.

Walter Scott

Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.

Dan Sharp

I haven't experienced a storm like this in a long time.

Craig Smith

It's pruned a little but really isn't all that different. Things don't get big down here because they get pruned by storm after storm after storm.

Danielle Brown

There was one year in 1933 we actually had 21 storms. That's been the most in the Atlantic. However, it was before we started naming storms

Charles Caleb Colton

The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Athenaeus

I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.

John Bauer

Thunder and lightning. I have never - never - skied in thunder and lightning. It was a trip, for sure.

Ted Nugent

I can hear her thunder, she's coming after me, thunder thighs.

Terry Pratchett

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'

Dan Peitz

If the track is muddy, that won't be a problem. I just don't want him out there if there is thunder and lightning.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

John Lancaster Spalding

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

H. G. Wells

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

John Pinkerton

There is about to be a big calamity if something isn't done soon. Without the regional centers, we are dead in the water.