Storm Quotes - Page 6

• If you have a guru, leave him; if you don't have, get one. In other words, keep changing your gurus! Ocean's wisdom comes from knowing many ships and many fishes, many storms and many waves!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ocean, Knowing, Ships

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• No matter how strong the storm, how hard the rain and how vicious the wind there is always a gap in the clouds for the light to shine through

  Ben Greenhalgh

  Strong, Rain, Wind

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• I have always been comfortable weathering the storm.
  I’d like to get more comfortable weathering the sunny day.

  Andrea Gibson

  Sunny Day, Sunny, Comfortable

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• [In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions taken together. It has brought upon mankind more suffering than any other catastrophe.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Taken, Epidemics, Earthquakes

  Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (2002). “The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation”, p.24, Templeton Foundation Press

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• When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like you are being attacked by jackals.

  Steven Bochco

  Gone, Pressure, Like You

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• You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Thinking, Fog, Snow

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• Take refuge in silence. You can be here or there or anywhere. Fixed in silence, established in the inner 'I', you can be as you are. The world will never perturb you if you are well founded upon the tranquility within. Gather your thoughts within. Find out the thought centre and discover your Self-equipoise. In storm and turmoil be calm and silent. Watch the events around as a witness. The world is a drama. Be a witness, inturned and introspective.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Drama, Self, Silence

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• There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Clouds, Political

  Press Conference, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 11, 2001.

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• But when we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future to see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Perfect, Looks

  "Aids to Prayer".

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• The first stage of this tranquility consists in silencing the lips when the heart is excited. The second, in silencing the mind when the soul is still excited. The goal is a perfect peacefulness even in the middle of the raging storm.

  John Climacus

  Heart, Perfect, Goal

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• So the storm passed and every one was happy.

  Kate Chopin

  Kate Chopin (2000). “The Awakening: And Other Stories”, p.559, OUP Oxford

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• Many of Nature's finest lessons are to be found in her storms, and if careful to keep in right relations with them, we may go safely abroad with them, rejoicing in the grandeur and beauty of their works and ways.

  John Muir

  Lessons, May, Way

  John Muir (1997). “John Muir: Nature Writings”, p.558, Library of America

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• I am a kite in a tornado but I have a long string. There is tension in my line. Somewhere, someone is holding onto the other end and, although it cannot spare me this storm, it will not let me be lost while I regain my strength. It is enough.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Long, Kites, Lines

  Karen Marie Moning (2009). “Dreamfever: Fever Series”, p.42, Delacorte Press

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• The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

  George R. R. Martin

  Big Fish, Paddling, Littles

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.808, Bantam

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• Being patient even in the thickest of storms can be the one device that may catapult you over any obstacle.

  Noelle Scaggs

  May, Patient, Obstacles

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• If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Golf, Iron

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• Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

  Jean Paul

  Break Up, Nature, Air

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• Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

  Corazon Aquino

  Inspirational, Faith, Patience

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• Every violent storm will eventually give way to sunshine; every dark night will finally fade into dawn.

  Steve Goodier

  Sunshine, Dark, Night

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• The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Past, Lust, Mind

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• The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

  Daniel Defoe

  Wisdom, Weight, Height

  Daniel Defoe (1836). “The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner with an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe”, p.338

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• I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

  Horace

  Loyalty, Shelter, Masters

  "The Epistles" by Horace, Book I, epistle i, line 14,

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• The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

  Rick Moody

  Hockey, Ice, Other Cultures

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• Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.

  Jean Paul

  Sweet, Strong, Flower

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• While parents should always provide shelter from a storm, they should sometimes allow children to play in the rain.

  Wes Fesler

  Children, Rain, Maturity

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