Gale Quotes

• He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Lying, Wind

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• When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Captains, Ships, Crew

  Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.6748, Delphi Classics

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• Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

  Robert Southwell

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

  Robert Southwell (1856). “The poetical works of the rev. Robert Southwell, now first completely ed. by W. B. Turnbull”, p.60

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• After you get what you want you don't want it.

  Irving Berlin

  Life, Desire, Want

  Song: After You Get What You Want

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• Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.

  Donald Cargill

  May, Kingdoms, Bars

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• The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Years, Water, Pirate

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• On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Alexander Pope (1825). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.198

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• And it’s all my fault, Gale. Because of what I did in the arena. If I had just killed myself with those berries, none of this would’ve happened. Peeta could have come home and lived, and everyone else would have been safe, too.” “Safe to do what?” he says in a gentler tone. “Starve? Work like slaves? Send their kids to the reaping? You haven’t hurt people – you’ve given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hurt, Home, Kids

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.99, Scholastic Inc.

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• The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him are opening paradise.

  Thomas Gray

  Air, Sky, Paradise

  Thomas Gray (2014). “Gray's English Poems”, p.58, Cambridge University Press

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• for some reason Gale and Peeta do not coexist well in my thoughts.

  Suzanne Collins

  Reason, Coexist, My Thoughts

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.192, Scholastic Inc.

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• Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chilliest land And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sea, Land, Bird

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.254 (first published 1891).

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• This was the door to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.

  Suzanne Collins

  Keys, Doors, Sanity

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• We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

  Gale Sayers

  School, Nfl, Trends

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• I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

  Gale Sayers

  Sports, Football, Determination

  Gale Sayers, Al Silverman (1972). “I Am Third”

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• There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

  Gale Sayers

  Moving Up, Pages Turning, Nfl

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• I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.

  Djuna Barnes

  Humble, Wind, Cows

  1936 Doctor. Night wood, ch.5.

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• And every stone and every star a tongue, And every gale of wind a curious song. The Heavens were an oracle, and spoke Divinity: the Earth did undertake The office of a priest; and I being dumb (Nothing besides was dumb) all things did come With voices and instructions.

  Thomas Traherne

  Song, Stars, Wind

  Thomas Traherne, “Dumbness”

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• Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from the undisturbed bottom of ooze. For it is a gale of wind that makes the sea look old.

  Joseph Conrad

  Ocean, Wind, Sea

  Joseph Conrad (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Conrad (Illustrated)”, p.5273, Delphi Classics

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• Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.

  Alexander Pope

  Summer, Flower, Eye

  'Pastorals' (1709) 'Summer' l. 73

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• In terms of the Richter scale this defeat was a force 8 gale.

  John Lyall

  Football, Defeat, Scales

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• Their own souls rose and cried
  Alarum when they heard the sudden wail
  Of stricken freedom and along the gale
  Saw her eternal banner quivering wide.

  John Le Gay Brereton

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Rose

  John Le Gay Brereton, “The Dead”

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• About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number of days, the wind increasing to a gale. The waves rose high, but I had a good ship. Still, in the dismal fog I felt myself drifting into loneliness, an insect on the straw in the midst of the elements.

  Joshua Slocum

  Loneliness, Fog, Wind

  Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.238, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• Behind a rack of framed photos of Snow, we encounter a wounded Peacekeeper propped up against a strip of brick wall. He asks us for help. Gale knees him in the side of the head and takes his gun.

  Suzanne Collins

  Wall, Gun, Snow

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.340, Scholastic Inc.

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• Oh yes!' and suddenly the wintry frost-bound look of care had left Mr. Thornton's face, as if some soft summer gale had blown all anxiety away from his mind; and, though his mouth was as much compressed as before, his eyes smiled out benignly on his questioner.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Summer, Eye, Anxiety

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1296, Delphi Classics

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• Making knots. Making knots. No word. Making knots. Tick-tock. This is a clock. Do not think of Gale. Do not think of Peeta. Making knots.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Tick, Clock

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.174, Scholastic Inc.

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