Hurricanes Quotes - Page 11

• It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Children, Ocean

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• Im a strong proponent of the restoration of the wetlands, for a lot of reasons. Theres a practical reason, though, when it comes to hurricanes: The stronger the wetlands, the more likely the damage of the hurricane.

  George W. Bush

  Strong, Restoration, Wetlands

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• Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.

  Stephen King

  Laughter, Self, Laughing

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.676, Simon and Schuster

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• All the best, Sydney P.S. "The Red Hurricane" is what I named the car. P.P.S. Just because I like you, it doesn't mean I still don't think you're an evil creature of the night. You are.

  Richelle Mead

  I Like You, Mean, Night

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.673, Penguin

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• You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is in perfect submission. And the god of Eros will flow through you, as Lawrence says, in the 'perfect obliteration of blood consciousness.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Blood, Perfect, House

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• The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. "Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me. "The big show is inside my head," I said.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dark, Light, Sunglasses

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• Fraud is common when you give away billions. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, 'Girls Gone Wild' videos, and at least one sex change operation.

  Mark Skousen

  Girl, Sex, Vacation

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• Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

  Dave Eggers

  Rocks, Here I Am, Velocity

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• Kay was older and bigger than the Wart, so that he was bound to win in the end, but he was more nervous and imaginative. He could imagine the effect of each blow that was aimed at him, and this weakened his defense. Wart was only an infuriated hurricane.

  T. H. White

  Blow, Winning, Defense

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.75, Penguin

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• I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Kings, Thinking, Honor

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• Frank stared at him. "Unfair? You can breathe underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hurricanes-and it's unfair that I can be an elephant?" Percy considered. "Okay. I guess you got a point. But the next time I say you're totally beast-" "Just shut up," Frank said. "Please." Percy cracked a smile.

  Rick Riordan

  Blow, Elephants, Underwater

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• If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.

  Richard Bach

  Funny, Husband, Adventure

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• The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa,the aromatic America of Columbus,Catholic America, Spanish America,the America where noble Cuauhtémoc said: "I am not on a bed of roses"-our America trembling with hurricanes, trembling with Love: O men with Saxon eyes and barbarous souls, our America lives. And dreams. And loves. And it is the daughter of the Sun. Be careful.

  Ruben Dario

  Daughter, Dream, Eye

  Ruben Dario, “A Roosevelt”

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• Love is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being. But you cannot know it, feel its unfeeling touch, until you pause in your busy-ness, are still and poised and empty of your wanting and desiring. When at rest the air is easily offended and will flee even from the fanning of a leaf, as love flees from the first thought. But when the air or love moves of its own accord it is a hurricane that drives all before it.

  Barry Long

  Life, Moving, Love Is

  "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

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• Here Stormbringer spies the Stepsons, the Theban fighters, and the 3rd Commando, attending to their own. In the face of such unflinching determination and unswerving devotion, the hurricane pauses and calms. Its ravings turn to mutters.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Determination, Revenge

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.491, Paradise Publishing

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• This hill crossed with broken pines and maples lumpy with the burial mounds of uprooted hemlocks (hurricane of '38) out of their rotting hearts generations rise trying once more to become the forest just beyond them tall enough to be called trees in their youth like aspen a bouquet of young beech is gathered they still wear last summer's leaves the lightest brown almost translucent how their stubbornness has decorated the winter woods.

  Grace Paley

  Summer, Spring, Heart

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• No. He says when you're dealing with any kids of supernatural beings, Gods and Devils and angels, you tend to think about them like hurricanes or earthquakes, some kind of mindless force of nature. But if they're real, then they have minds. They know your name. So even reading about the Devil tips him off, he knows instantly he's being read about and that you're somebody he may have to deal with. And I'm thinking what you did in Vegas went way, way beyond that." "What 'I' did? What about us? We were both there." "Yeah but I cut my hair since then. They probably think that was a different guy.

  David Wong

  Real, Reading, Kids

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• The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sea, Land, House

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Islands in the Stream: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Believe, Gay, Pressure

  "The Newsroom". www.npr.org. July 16, 2012.

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• All hurricanes are acts of God because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that.

  John Hagee

  Believe, New Orleans, Heaven

  Interview with Matt Corley, thinkprogress.org. April 23, 2008.

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• It's so obvious The Weather Channel is pro hurricane. Fair and balanced my ass.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Witty, Weather, Ass

  FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from Aug 26, 2011

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• Protecting dozens of major coastal cities from future flooding will be challenging enough-rebuilding major coastal cities destroyed by super-hurricanes will be an almost impossible task.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Cities, Weather, Challenges

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• Gabriel's voice can reach me anywhere. Even in a hurricane.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Voice, Gabriel

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• She has the majesty of hurricanes and explosions.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Majesty, Explosions

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, People, Shelter

  "Pets Should Be Evacuated, Too" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2011.

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