Quotes about storm

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

E. W. Howe -

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

Jules Renard -

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Thich Nhat Hanh -

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

Morris West -

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

Tavis Smiley -

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

J.D. Stroube - Caged in Darkness

It stood calm against the suburban storm raging around it. The thunder screamed across the sky it slapped the clouds into a heated turmoil that flew towards the south.

Marie Lu - The Rose Society

They were the flash of light in a stormy sky, the fleeting darkness before dawn. Never have they existed before, nor shall they ever exist again.

Bryant McGill -

When the storm rips you to pieces, you have to decide how to put yourself back together again.

Catherine Jane Fisher - I am Catherine Jane: The True Story of One Woman's Quest for Justice

There is dignity after the storm.

Phoebe Stone - Romeo Blue

She loves him sobut he didn't stay.The wind can't blowthis storm away.

RSCruz -

Sometimes God let us experience the storm so people who give us importance could calm us down.

M.J. Abraham -

She didn't do anything at allexcept arrived without warningin the middle of the night(right when I least expected it)She walked by me, with a strut in her stepsmelling like summercausing me to turn my head(even the leaves swayed her way)All she did was look at mewith bright, curious eyesfilled with mirth and secrets(as if an adventure was about to happen)I tried not to think of her at allnot the curves of her bodyor the stories that she told(you knew there'd never be dull conversations)By then,

Charlotte Riddell - The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies

The minister paused in his narrative. At that moment there came a tremendous blast of wind which shook the windows of the manse, and burst open the hall door, and caused the candles to flicker and the fire to go roaring up the chimney. It is not too much to say that, what with the uncanny story, and the howling storm, we all felt that creeping sort of uneasiness which so often seems like the touch of something from another world - a hand stretched across the boundary-line of time and eternity, t

R.K. Cowles -

Only one thing that you can see and hear that is beautiful and frightening at the same time, and that is a thunder storm.

Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that has nothing to do with you, This storm is you. Something inside you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in,

Mehmet Murat ildan -

Storm destroys, man also destroys, so man is a storm too! But contrary to storm, man can learn no to destroy!

Hélène Berr -

The looming storm broke in the end. And it is the storm I will remember, the sound of the downpour splattering over the steps of the Tuileries, the dark sky and the pink lightning. I could have stayed like that for centuries.

Rebecca Donovan - Reason to Breathe

He was a breath of fresh air after the heart wrenching storm that had engulfed me.

Andrew Holleran - Dancer from the Dance

Malone had been raised by a lady both Irish and Catholic, in a good bourgeois home in which careless table manners were a sin, much less this storm in his heart.

Fernand Dumont - région du cœur et autres textes

...a woman not yet seen, but whose perfume accumulates on the horizon like a storm cloud.

Gift Gugu Mona -

The reason why I smile even in the midst of the storm is because I know that Jesus Christ will carry me through.

Leonardo Donofrio - Old Country

Identity was just a box people liked to put themselves in, a mast to tether to in a storm, a security blanket.

Katherine McIntyre - Hunting for Spring

She was the type who chased, who danced into your life like a spring storm, and left you battered and quaking in the wake.

Dan Stevens -

It’s not a bad lesson to learn in the bleaker months: how you view a storm is a question of perspective; provided you find the right rock to watch it from, it could be the most incredible thing you’ll ever witness.

Mehmet Murat ildan -

If only a horrible storm can demolish the castle of the devil, then let the storm be victorious! It is not uncommon that heaven comes after hell!

Mehmet Murat ildan -

Just because an impressive storm doesn’t touch you, you must not find it beautiful! Lend an ear to the voices of those which are under the storm!

L.M. Montgomery - Anne's House of Dreams

I never see a ship sailing out of the channel, or a gull soaring over the sand-bar, without wishing I were on board the ship or had wings, not like a dove 'to fly away and be at rest,’ but like a gull, to sweep out into the very heart of the storm.

Jay Woodman -

be the calm eye of the storm where nothing phases you, focus on your centre to remain balanced, let your life flow like a stream of wind

Sarah J. Maas - The Assassin and the Healer

The girl was alluring. Like wildfire, or a summer storm swept off the Gulf of Oro.

Charlotte Brontë - Villette

I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand weepers, praying in agony on waiting shores, listened for that voice, but it was not uttered--not uttered till; when the hush came, some could not feel it: till, when the sun returned, his light was night to some!

Bernie Mac -

I've always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there's people used to get mad at me because I didn't hang out and things like that. I've never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I've never been posse, and all that. I'm a quiet storm.

Frederick Douglass -

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.

Jean Paul -

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

John McGraw -

My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.

Rose Kennedy -

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

Jimmy Smits -

You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.

Perry Farrell -

I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.

Joseph Addison -

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

Cicero -

He used to raise a storm in a teapot.

Henry David Thoreau -

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully.

Jen Lancaster -

Remember when Japan was cool? We used to run around with 'Mr. Roboto' on our Walkmans, 'The Karate Kid' in our Betamaxes and wore T-shirts embossed with the characters for 'storm sewer' and 'dishwasher.'

Eric Shinseki -

The magnificent army that fought in Desert Storm is a great army, and it still is a magnificent army today. But it was one we designed for the Cold War, and the Cold War has been over for ten years now.

Amelia Barr -

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.

George Osborne -

The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm.

Virginia Postrel -

The elements that create glamour are not specific styles - bias-cut gowns or lacquered furniture - but more general qualities: grace, mystery, transcendence. To the right audience, Halle Berry is more glamorous commanding the elements as Storm in the X-Men movies than she is walking the red carpet in a designer gown.

Arnold J. Toynbee -

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.

John Wesley -

In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. For what has thou given up thy goods, thy ease, thy friends, thy reputation, thy country, thy life?'

Hubert H. Humphrey -

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

Robert H. Schuller -

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

Mahatma Gandhi -

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.

Ludwig van Beethoven -

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Ho Chi Minh -

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Golda Meir -

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

Amber Frey -

When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

Lee Trevino -

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

William Cowper -

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

Faye Wattleton -

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

Madeleine M. Kunin -

Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

Carrie Underwood -

The only reason I felt like I could sing a song like 'Blown Away' is because I have definitely lived through my fair share of trips to the cellar in the spring. We were no stranger to that. I still ask my mom, 'Is the cellar cleaned out now? Is everything OK?' Even in my new house, I had something built in it that's like a storm shelter.

Carlos Ghosn -

Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.

Matthew Henry -

After a storm comes a calm.

Jerry Saltz -

Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.

Ann Voskamp -

In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.

Ray Lewis -

You got to be willing to walk in a storm. That's what I tell people all the time.

Black Elk -

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.

Willa Cather -

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

William R. Alger -

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

Craig D. Lounsbrough - Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

Am I a storm-waster? For it is within the fury of the very storms within which I cower that I find resources for my growth that are entirely absent on calmer days.

Amy Carmichael - Gold by Moonlight

There is no house of life out of reach of the stream. So, to be surprised when the rain descends and the foods come, and the winds blow and beat upon the house, as though some strange thing happened unto us, is unreasonable and unjust; it so miscalls our good Master, who never told us to build for fair weather or even to be careful to build out of reach of floods. "We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God" is not a fair-weather word. "My son, if thou comest to serve the Lor

Deyth Banger -

My goal is to read as much as possible books, my dream is to meet the snow person, the storm person and to make something together. I will be the rain, Snowy will be the snow, Stormy will be the storm - it's not so complicated as far I see.

Rebecca McNutt - Smog City

Mandy loved the smell of a sunny day after a night of rain. The sun hit the orange puddles, the overgrown, soft, green grass on her lawn, and it beamed down through the orange steel mill smog, sending otherworldly, bizarre shadows across the concrete sidewalk.

Anthony Liccione -

Don't look at the present storm, but look to the Son coming.

Alisa Hope Wagner -

Walking with Jesus is many times like walking in the eye of the storm--inner peace in the middle of chaos.

Ana Claudia Antunes - A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream

It's not the weather that's bad or good, it's whether you have good or bad mood. It's cloudy and cold, I feel happy and bold, As the storm unfolds, I turn silver in gold!

Virginia Alison -

And somewhere amidst the storm raging inside, between the twilight of lust and desire, entwined within the whirlwind of swirling emotions, it happened. In one lightning strike, the illusion crumbled. For I realised the naked truth...

Virginia Alison -

I am wild, untameable, the storm and the eye withinAn unpredictable gypsy, with passion beyond your wildest dreamsand unquenchable desiresfor you and you alone...Persistent and fiercely loyal, today I choose to be all of theseand more…Will you still be here tomorrow?

Anthony Liccione -

Expect while reaching for the stars, people to whirl by with their dark clouds and storm upon you.

Beth Revis - The Body Electric

And then I realize: this isn’t dirty water falling from the sky.It is—literally—blood.I look up, and a droplet of blood splashes directly into my eye. I curse, rubbing my face, trying to get the blood out, but it’s everywhere, it’s like trying to dry off in the middle of the ocean. Shielding my face as best I can, I stare up into the sky.I am in the center of a cyclone.Giant white clouds swirl like a spiraling galaxy above me, the eye a tiny dark speck. The storm rages, throwing out bloody rain

Terry Pratchett -

It was the kind of storm that suggests the whole sky has swallowed a diuretic.

Old Farmer's Almanac -

Sopping, and with no sign of stopping, either- then a breather. Warm again, storm again- what is the norm, again? It's fine, it's not, it's suddenly hot: Boom, crash, lightning flash!

Richard Adams - Watership Down

At that instant a dazzling claw of lightning streaked down the length of the sky. The hedge and the distant trees seemed to leap forward in the brilliance of the flash. Immediately upon it came the thunder: a high, tearing noise, as though some huge thing were being ripped to pieces close above, which deepened and turned to enormous blows of dissolution. Then the rain fell like a waterfall. In a few seconds the ground was covered with water and over it, to a height of inches, rose a haze formed

James Dashner - The Scorch Trials

He turned to look just in time to see the rain start falling out as if the storm had finally decided to weep with shame for what it had done to them.

Stephen M. Irwin - The Dead Path

The rain thundered down so heavily that Pritam could imagine that space itself was made of water and was pouring through rents in the sky's tired fabric.

Abdullah Ibn al-Mu'tazz - Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets

The eyelids of the burdened clouds let fall cascadesOf rain, and the parterred garden is spattered with drops.

Melyssa Winchester - Take Me with You

The both of us, we're individual parts on our own. She's the thunder and lightning and I'm the rain. It's only when we come together that it's right.We become the perfect storm. (Eric Carmen)

John Steinbeck - East of Eden

In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground.

Patrick Rothfuss - The Wise Man's Fear

My alar is like the ocean in storm. (Devi)

Donald L. Hicks - The Divinity Factor

We seldom question the purpose of life when our world is sunny and bright. This question tends to hide itself during pleasant sailing, only rearing its face during the deepest and darkest travails, when the gales of storm weather have fallen.

Deyth Banger -

I just predicted whose son will be taken in Storm of Century By Stephen King it was Ralph Emerick 'Ralphie' Anderson. Isn't it interesting that I gues who will be taken??

Samuel Snoek-Brown - Hagridden

Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder.

Olivia Sudjic - Sympathy

I began to cry but maintained my shouting through it, like a wind through sheets of rain.

Alisa Hope Wagner - Eve of Awakening

Sometimes, God brings His greatest rains with a storm. Sometimes, God brings His greatest blessings with your difficulty.

Alice Godwin - Lighthouses: An Anthology of Dark Tales

He describes sailing across mountainous seas, lashed to the wheel the bare rigging overhead dancing with blue electricity, St Elmo's fire the sailors called it. His clothes so saturated with the salt water he can barely stand, would fall if he weren’t tied up. The ship heaves in the heavy swells and the waves crash endlessly over the deck. Anything that wasn't tied down has long slid into the churning maelstrom including three crewmembers that didn’t lash themselves up in time. He holds the whee

Rick Riordan - The Lost Hero

Khione’s eyes flared pure white. For once, she seemed at a loss for words. She stormed back up the stairs—literally. Halfway up, she turned into a blizzard and disappeared.

George R.R. Martin - A Storm of Swords

Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.

Jean-François Beauchemin -

The sea stood up before him, foaming, torn by lightning bolts, opening terrifying mouths that gobbled up the dense, hard black rains unleashed by the sky like hate.

Emma Trevayne - Chorus

When I first saw you, you were like . . . ' He shakes his head, tugs gently on my hair. 'A rainbow. I always knew you came with a storm.

Charles Bukowski - Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

sleeping in the rain helps me forget things like I am going todie and you are going to die and the cats are going to diebut it's still good to stretch out and know you have arms andfeet and a head, hands, all the parts, even eyes to closeoncemore, it really helps to know these things, to know youradvantagesand your limitations, but why do the cats have to die, Ithink that theworld should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, justcats andrain, rain and cats, very nice, goodnight.