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.

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.

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.

Antonin Artaud

It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.

Bernard Baruch

Financial storm definitely passed.

Cedric Richmond

In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently.

Beth Moore

We want Christ to hurry and calm the storm. He wants us to find him in the midst of it first.

Beth Moore

Sometimes God allows storms to come together in such a way that they ultimately fulfill something that would never have happened otherwise.

William Shakespeare

This world to me is like a lasting storm,Whirring me from my friends.

Deepak Chopra

When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives.

William Shakespeare

Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?

Another worry is that the storm drains are clogged with leaves, so there could be urban flooding." ()

The story of this storm is not over yet.

This could be the first significant storm in two months. The first potentially, I stress the word potentially.

We're able to just make more trips during the day. It's the big storms that get us into overtime.

Matthew Simmons

Even another tropical storm could set the reconstruction back for months.

Tune in to the storm in the morning.

Michael Chertoff

We've got tropical storms and hurricanes brewing in the ocean.

Thomas Fuller

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

John Williams

We're going north, wherever the storm isn't going.

Every time we evacuate, storm or no, it's pretty devastating.

Kathleen Blanco

We will weather this storm as we have weathered Katrina.

Ann Druyan

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

Andrea Gibson

I have always been comfortable weathering the storm. I’d like to get more comfortable weathering the sunny day.

Alfred Marshall

The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin. When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm.

Andrew Jackson

I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.

Thomas S. Monson

He will lift you and guide you. He will not always take your afflictions from you, but He will comfort and lead you with love through whatever storm you face.