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.

Marcel Proust

I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence...

Joseph B. Wirthlin

You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.

Henry B. Eyring

Choose to obey the Lord quickly, always, in quiet times and in storms. As we do, our faith will be strengthened, we will find peace in this life, and we will gain the assurance that we and our families can qualify for eternal life in the world to come.

Henry B. Eyring

The great test of life is ... not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.

Winston Churchill

To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go.

William H. Macy

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.

Wendell Berry

What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.

Wendell Berry

We have become blind to the alternatives to violence.

Yoko Ono

All I'm saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.

Wyclef Jean

All that violence in the world, we need to stop that

William O. Douglas

The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.

Morgan Saylor

I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me.

Kevin Bales

Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about

Olympia Snowe

I think it demonstrates their effectiveness, ... It makes you realize they are critical at moments like this, as we have seen off the coast of Maine.

Adam Hughes

I was born in Riverside and spent my whole growing-up years in Florence, a little township on the Delaware River. I tell people that I'm from the West Coast of New Jersey.

Cassie Scerbo

I was born in New York and raised in South Florida, so I'm an East Coast girl.

Jeff Miller

I will continue to fight any and all drilling that occurs within 100 miles of our coast or encroaches on our military mission in the Eastern Gulf.

Geoff Davis

We manage the two (land-based) casinos, the Gold Coast and the Treasury.

Kit Bond

Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security.

Johnny Miller

Hurricane Katrina can only take you so far. Those kids from the Coast went through so much and just relied on playing basketball. We represented the Gulf Coast.

Jim Lee

I'd like to see some of the things that ordinary folks have. Our local folks, with their tradition of joining the Coast Guard, and the Life-Saving Service before that, traveled all over the world. So they'll have some souvenirs from Lord knows where.

Dwane Casey

He gets them in so many different ways. He is as quick as Iverson with the ball, probably not from coast to coast, but from a standstill going to the basket, he is as quick.