Hurricanes Quotes - Page 8

• The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast cities into preKatrina New Orleans - below sea level and facing super-hurricanes. - Joseph Romm210. The generations living today get to retrofit, reboot, and reenergize a nation. We get to rescue and reinvent the U.S. economy.

  Van Jones

  New Orleans, Sea, Cities

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• The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast cities into pre- Katrina New Orleans - below sea level and facing super-hurricanes.

  Joseph J. Romm

  New Orleans, Sea, Cities

  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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• Plus they think the hurricane's going to hit (starts laughing) New Orleans about the time they start. The timing, at least it appears now, that it'll be there Monday. That just demonstrates God's on our side

  Donald Fowler

  Monday, Thinking, New Orleans

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• I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself longing for it to become big and strong--Mother Nature's fist of fury, Gaia's stern rebuke. Considering the havoc mankind has wreaked upon nature with deforesting, stripmining, and the destruction of animal habitat, it only seems fair that nature get some of its own back and teach us that there are forces greater than our own.

  James Wolcott

  Mother, Strong, Stupid

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• But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor to life. Van Gogh, Beethoven, Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, Pink Floyd (the early Piper at the Gates of Dawn line up), scientific breakthroughs, spiritual revolution, utopian visions, zany nationalism that kills millions- wait, that’s the bad kind. Tim Dorsey (Hurricane Punch)

  Tim Dorsey

  Spiritual, Waiting, Vision

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• So how long do you think it’ll be?” he says. “Before the next hurricane comes along to take you home.” “Can I tell you my biggest fear?” I say. “Yes. Tell me.” “That it will be a very windless four years.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Home, Thinking, Years

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• It's surprisingly nice out here, peaceful and pretty-strange to be standing in the middle of a little garden while enclosed by the massive stone walls of the prison, like being at the exact center of a hurricane, and finding peace and silence in the middle of so much shrieking damage.

  Lauren Oliver

  Wall, Nice, Garden

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.242, Hachette UK

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• They who reach down into the depths of life where, in the stillness, the voice of God is heard, have the stabilizing power which carries them poised and serene through the hurricane of difficulties.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Voice, Depth, Difficulty

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• The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Air, Miles, Thousand

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Unleash the Night”, p.263, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Hurricane Sandy interrupted Mr. Romney’s momentum and allowed Mr. Obama to look presidential and bipartisan.

  Karl Rove

  Presidential, Momentum, Looks

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• Every Victim requires a Persecutor. But the Persecutor isn't always necessarily a person. The Persecutor could also be a condition or a circumstance. A persecuting condition might be a disease or a heart attack, or an injury. A persecuting circumstance could be a natural disaster, like a hurricane or an earthquake or a house burning down.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Heart, Earthquakes, House

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• Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record - Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages - you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  God, Mom, Thinking

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending.

  Michele Bachmann

  Government, Earthquakes, People

  "Bachmann: Hurricane Irene Was Message From God" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. August 29, 2011.

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• These often unsung heroes understand...that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. Individuals ...are taking on these challenges in their communities, volunteering to make a difference. They remain the true champions of our work towards the Millennium Development Goals.

  Kofi Annan

  Hero, Earthquakes, Differences

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• I think as a kid I never really understood the magnitude of a hurricane and what it could do.

  Marshall Faulk

  Kids, Thinking, Magnitude

  St. Louis Post Dispatch, August 31, 2005.

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• Michele Bachmann says God made the earthquake and hurricane to punish us. Untrue - he made Michele Bachmann for that.

  Andy Borowitz

  Earthquakes, Made, Untrue

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Aug 29, 2011

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• at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners of rooms, portraits of great-grandmothers, curtains of a particular shade; your deserts; your private dinosaurs; the first woman) all i need to know: tell me everything just as it was from the beginning.

  Margaret Atwood

  Ocean, Grandmother, Garden

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems: 1965-1975”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Lost in Static 18
  And the storm is closing in now
  Automatic 18 - Got to push through - Trapped in living hell
  You're a prisoner of the dark sky
  The propeller blades are still
  And the evil eye of the hurricane's
  Coming in now for the kill

  Mike Oldfield

  Song, Eye, Dark

  Song: Five Miles Out

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• All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.

  A. A. Gill

  Philosophy, War, Men

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• We are terrible for each other, and, yes, we are a disaster. But tell me your heart doesn't race for a hurricane or a burning building. I'd rather die terrified than live forever.

  Joey Comeau

  Heart, Race, Forever

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• Look at The Adventure. A boat by night is a wonderful sight. This is the way to start a new life, with a hurricane lamp shining at the top of the mast, and the coastline disappearing behind one as the whole world lies sleeping. Making a journey by night is more wonderful than anything in the world.

  Tove Jansson

  Lying, Adventure, Sleep

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• We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, but God did.

  Richard Baker

  New Orleans, Hateful, Poor

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• Huge events take place on this earth every day. Earthquakes, hurricanes, even glaciers move. So why couldn't he just look at me?

  Claire Danes

  Broken Heart, Moving, Earthquakes

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• I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

  Joshua Slocum

  Beautiful, Men, Sea

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.193, Applewood Books

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• Beneath the greatest love lies a hurricane of hate.

  Phil Ochs

  Love, Hate, Lying

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