Storm Quotes - Page 34

• Our lives are waves that come up out of the ocean of eternity, break upon the beach of earth, and lapse back to the ocean of eternity. Some are sunlit, some run in storm and rain; one is a quiet ripple, another is a thunderous breaker; and once in many centuries comes a great tidal wave that sweeps over a continent; but all go back to the sea and lie equally level there.

  Austin O'Malley

  Life, Running, Beach

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• Ah, my brother, it is a far harder thing, and it is afar higher proof of a thorough-going, persistent, Christian principle woven into the very texture of my soul, to go on plodding and patient, never taken by surprise by any small temptation, than to gather into myself the strength which God has given me, and, expecting some great storm to come down upon me, to stand fast, and let it rage. It is a great deal easier to die once for Christ than to live always for Him.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Christian, Brother, Taken

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 109), 1895.

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• Whatever you believe to be true and false, that proclaim to be true and false; whatever you think admirable and beautiful, that should be your model, even if all your friends and all the critics storm at you as a crotchet-monger and an eccentric.

  George Henry Lewes

  Beautiful, Believe, Thinking

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• I can't overrule gravity or turn away an approaching hurricane. I'm powerless over those things, yet this doesn't mean that I can't act with responsibility. I can pack provisions and head to my cellar as a storm approaches.

  Peg O'Connor

  Mean, Responsibility, Hurricanes

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Those who have been indulged by fortune and have always thought of calamity as what happens to others, feel a blind incredulous rage at the reversal of their lot, and half believe that their wild cries will alter the course of the storm.

  George Eliot

  Believe, Half, Cry

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3429, Delphi Classics

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• It is the stillest words that bring the storm.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2007). “Ecce Homo: How To Become What You Are”, p.5, OUP Oxford

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• The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?

  Bertolt Brecht

  Tree, Violent, Birch Trees

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.276, Taylor & Francis

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• Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

  Bertolt Brecht

  War, Wind, Grows

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.288, Taylor & Francis

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• All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of him but in broken and imperfect words. High above all he sits, sublimer than mountains, grander than storms, sweeter than blossoms and tender fruits, nobler than lords, truer than parents, more loving than lovers. His feet tread the lowest places of the earth; but his head is above all glory, and everywhere he is supreme.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Feet, Broken, Parent

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Winning, Men, Sea

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.13

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• God's voice was not in the earthquake, Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Earthquakes, Voice, Fire

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.34

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• I'm no reformer; for I see more lightThan darkness in the world; mine eyes are quickTo catch the first dim radiance of the dawn,And slow to note the cloud that threatens storm.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Eye, Clouds, Darkness

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.556, Delphi Classics

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• Humor is a marvelous communications tool, as Reagan has demonstrated so well. He has weathered many a storm that others might not have. With Reagan, people just say, 'There he goes again.' A sense of humor allows a president to back off a little from the tensions of the moment and take a calmer view of things.

  Robert Orben

  Communication, Views, People

  "Presidential politics should be more of a laughing matter" by Phil Gailey, St. Petersburg Times, p. 5D, June 12, 1988.

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• Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of mortality! And sick of prey, yet howling on for more, Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore, Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm, Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable sea?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ocean, Years, Sea

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.292

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• The saddest birds a season find to sing,The roughest storm a calm may soon allay;Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all,That men may hope to rise yet fear to fall.

  Robert Southwell

  Fall, Men, Bird

  Saint Robert Southwell (1856). “The poetical works of the Rev. Robert Southwell”, p.47

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• The immortal mind, superior to his fate, amid the outrage of external things, firm as the solid base of this great world, rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds! Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on! Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky! Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene, the unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck; and ever stronger as the storms advance, firm through the closing ruin holds is way, when nature calls him to the destin'd goal.

  Mark Akenside

  Fate, Blow, Fire

  Mark Akenside, “The Pleasures Of Imagination: Book The Second”

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• Often, very often, I am alone. My studio in Amsterdam, (Beckmann lived in the center of Amsterdam during World War 2.) an enormous old tobacco storeroom is again filled in my imagination with figures from the old days and from the new, like an ocean moved by storm and sun and always present in my thoughts. Then shapes become beings and seem comprehensible to me in the great void and uncertainty of the space which I call god.

  Max Beckmann

  War, Ocean, Space

  "On my painting". Max Beckmann's Speech during the exhibition 'Twentieth-Century German Art', London, July 21, 1938.

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• I could never figure out or probably did not take the trouble to figure out what the great philosophical problems are about. The momentous statements I come across are at best a storm in a teacup. There are quite a number of people who have a vested interest in the stuff, make a noble living out of it, and they conspire with one another to keep it alive.

  Eric Hoffer

  Philosophical, Numbers, People

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• All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart.

  John Muir

  Heart, Volcanoes, Earthquakes

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.66, Great West Books

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• The artist is the compass which, through the raging of the storm, points steadily to the north.

  Romain Rolland

  Artist, Compass, Rage

  Romain Rolland (1962). “John Christopher: Journey's end”

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• Like the ostrich, head under wingWhen the roaring storm breaks,So many people take refugeUnder the soft pillowOf specious arguments.

  Georges Rouault

  Ostriches, People, Roaring

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• Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.

  Tobias Smollett

  Heart, Eye, Eagles

  Tobias Smollett (1806). “Life of Smollett, by R. Anderson. Roderick Random”, p.163

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• At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:And as the last slow sudden drops are shedFrom sparkling eaves when all the storm has fled,So singly flagged the pulses of each heart.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Sweet, Smart, Heart

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Clive Wilmer (2014). “Selected Poems”, p.24, Routledge

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• The summer day was spoiled with fitful storm; At night the wind died and the soft rain dropped; With lulling murmur, and the air was warm, And all the tumult and the trouble stopped.

  Celia Thaxter

  Summer, Rain, Night

  Celia Thaxter (1896). “The Poems of Celia Thaxter”

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• Some women are to be captured by storm and some taken by siege; yet if there be not a traitor in her heart that shall deliver up the garrison, thou shalt not prevail over her.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Taken, Heart

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