Whirlwind Quotes

• It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

  Frederick Douglass

  Fire, Light, Earthquakes

  Speech, Rochester, N.Y., 5 July 1852

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• Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.

  Marcus Garvey

  Storm, Looks

  Marcus Garvey, Robert A. Hill (1989). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. VI: September 1924-December 1927”, p.98, Univ of California Press

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• Life is a whirlwind of many opportunities. Choose to embrace all of them in deepest gratitude. Learn to forgive yourself and honour the heart that beats within you, as well as the head that rests on your shoulders. Learn how to believe in people again and not be judging or cynical to various beliefs. We are all of one light on this one Earth, and loving humanity makes all the difference.

  Michelle Cruz

  Gratitude, Believe, Heart

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• When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Wind, Literature

  Frederick Douglass (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, Chicago Review Press

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• To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

  Anne Rice

  Doors, Answers, Literature

  "The Vampire Lestat". Book by Anne Rice, 1985.

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• There is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning has its power, and the whirlwind has its power, and the earthquake has its power; but there is something among men more capable of shaking despotic thrones than lightning, whirlwind, or earthquake, and that is, the excited and aroused indignation of the whole civilized world.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Earthquakes, Lightning

  DANIEL WEBSTER (1853). “THE WORKS OF DANIEL WEBSTER; VOLUME II”, p.514

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• This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Life, Blooming, Noise

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.115, Library of America

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• Ride the air In whirlwind.

  John Milton

  Air

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1809). “The Poetical Works of John Milton,: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton,”, p.413

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• A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Lying, Easy, Hard

  "The Sun Watches the Sun" by Dejan Stojanovic, Književna reč, Beograd, "A Lie", (p. 65), 1999.

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• Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

  Joseph Addison

  Editing, Editors, Storm

  'The Campaign' (1705) l. 291

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• As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

  Akhenaton

  Men, Angry Man, Earthquakes

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• Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Player, Air

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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• When you're in love, love makes you do crazy things, and can take you down a whirlwind of a road.

  Kevin Hart

  Crazy, Crazy Things

  "Regina Hall & Kevin Hart - The “About Last Night” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, dallasblack.com. February 12, 2014.

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• Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, Laughing, Ships

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.121, Library of America

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• I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me - and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Men, World

  "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling in the nation must be quickened, the conscience of the nation must be roused, the propriety of the nation must be startled, the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed: and its crimes against God and man must be denounced.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Fire, Light

  Speech, Rochester, N.Y., 5 July 1852

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• Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.

  Annie Dillard

  Song, Voice, Stills

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• The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a whirlwind.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cat, Looks, Calling

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.75, A&C Black

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• I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone. From out of a whirlwind the voice of God replied: I am not, either. I dreamed the world the way you dreamed your work, my Shakespeare: one of the forms of my dream was you, who, like me, are many and one.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Dream, Men, Self

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• There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Dark, Language Words

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• Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Speech, Tongue, Language

  William Shakespeare (1740). “The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes. Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected: with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical”, p.160

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• Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than to be filthy. Good manners were no better than bad. Family life was derided as an outdated bourgeois concept. Criminals deserved as much sympathy as their victims. Many homes and classrooms became disorderly - if there was neither right nor wrong there could be no basis for punishment or reward. Violence and soft pornography became accepted in the media. Thus was sown the wind, and we are now reaping the whirlwind.

  Norman Tebbit

  Art, Home, Media

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• The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind.

  Jeff Healey

  Light, Years, Three

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• Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.

  William Shakespeare

  Player, Mouths, Lines

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way you can connect to that character is because that was a piece of you that was scattered around that yard, almost like we got caught up in some whirlwind

  Terrence Howard

  Character, Play, Yards

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