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• Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?

  Max Muller

  Mother, Children, Father

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

  Laurence Olivier

  Life, Disappointment, Sunset

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• We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.

  Dan Quayle

  Rising, Politics, Weapons

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• The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.

  Charles Rangel

  New Orleans, People, Black

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• A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Cutting, Government, Perfect

  "The Leader of the Future Comes From the Past" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2012.

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• When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Heart, People, Water

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• If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.

  Charles Stanley

  Pride, Foundation, Looks

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• Coming through the fire and through the storm of life with a strong man, my fiance Ashanti, whom I've been dating for eight months and two wonderful children beside me, I'm just so happy that I have been able to maintain my integrity and get to where I am today with the right energy around me.

  Angie Stone

  Strong, Children, Integrity

  "The Stone Age: Angie Stone on her new album, fiance and D'Angelo". "Essence" Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

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• Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Water, Too Late, Banking

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• For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service.

  Ron Wyden

  Men, Shields, Desert

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• Testimony is the beginning of and a prerequisite to continuing conversion. Testimony is a point of departure; it is not an ultimate destination. Strong testimony is the foundation upon which conversion is established. Testimony alone is not and will not be enough to protect us in the latter-day storm of darkness and evil in which we are living.

  David A. Bednar

  Strong, Evil, Darkness

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• In a great gasp, puts her head in her hands again and cries as if her throat were a cave, as if the howling winds came from her belly, she cries like a storm that will never end.

  Marilyn French

  Hands, Wind, Caves

  Marilyn French (2013). “Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel”, p.104, Open Road Media

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• Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried.

  Eudora Welty

  Flower, Dark, Clouds

  Eudora Welty (1982). “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”, p.250, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than rot in any orthodox harbor.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stars, Wind, Sea

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.195, Library of Alexandria

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• A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Flower, Night, June

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Jane Eyre (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.286, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Love is as varied and unpredictable as the rain is: it comes in constant summer drizzles, or sudden, unforseen storms that make rivers burst their banks and Cornish fishing boats rock and spill and lose their crew in the Atlantic.

  Susan Fletcher

  Summer, Rain, Love Is

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• What need, Dunstan wondered, could someone have of the storm-filled eggshells?

  Neil Gaiman

  Needs, Eggshells, Filled

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Stardust”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its best to vex the lake: I listened with heart fit to break. When glided in Porphyria; straight She shut the cold out and the storm, And kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up and all the cottage warm.

  Robert Browning

  Rain, Heart, Lakes

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.358, Wordsworth Editions

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• He continued on, on to the glacier, towards the dawn, from ridge to ridge, in deep, new-fallen snow, paying no heed to the storms that might pursue him. As a child he had stood by the seashore at Ljósavík and watched the waves soughing in and out, but now he was heading away from the sea. "Think of me when you are in glorious sunshine." Soon the sun of the day of resurrection will shine on the bright paths where she awaits her poet. And beauty shall reign alone.

  Halldór Laxness

  Children, Sunshine, Thinking

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• He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Eye, Dark, Autumn

  Louisa May Alcott (1997). “A Long Fatal Love Chase”, Thorndike Pr

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• There's always another storm. It's the way the world works. Snowstorms, rainstorms, windstorms, sandstorms, and firestorms. Some are fierce and others are small. You have to deal with each one separately, but you need to keep an eye on whats brewing for tomorrow.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Eye, Needs, World

  "Fire Study (The Chronicles of Ixia, Book 3)". Book by Maria V. Snyder, February 1, 2013.

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• Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heaven, Tides, Mood

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• Trees for example, carry the memory of rainfal. In their rings we read ancient weather - storms, sunlight and temperatures, the growing seasons of centuries. A forest shares a history which each tree remembers even after it has been felled.

  Anne Michaels

  Memories, Weather, Tree

  Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.123, A&C Black

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• . . . And so Charlie Asher . . . led an army of fourteen-inch-tall bundles of animal bits, armed with everything from knitting needles to a spork, into the storm sewers of San Fransciso.

  Christopher Moore

  Army, Animal, Knitting

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• I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an empty heart. The storms of ruthless dispensation Have struck my flowery garland numb, I live in lonely desolation And wonder when my end will come. Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted By tardy winter's whistling chill, A single leaf which has outlasted Its season will be trembling still.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Dream, Lonely, Grief

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