Whirlwind Quotes - Page 2

• Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?

  Nikolai Gogol

  Horse, Home, Equine

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• My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Olympics, Has Beens

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• There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music.

  Nick Lachey

  Song, Couple, Writing

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• Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God's grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and
  the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life.

  Marcus Garvey

  Fighting, West Indies, America

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, p.239, The Majority Press

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• It has been a whirlwind really, it all happened so quickly! I auditioned for Australian Idol for the 3rd time... to see where I was and if I had improved with my singing; and the next thing I knew in the final 12 and it went nuts from there - I walked straight off stage at the finals into a press conference and didn't have a days rest 'till New Years Day.

  Kate DeAraugo

  New Year, Years, Idols

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• They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.

  Black Elk

  Uncles, Lying, Men

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.

  Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

  War, Wind, Bombs

  Statement in 1942. "The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won". Book by Victor Davis Hanson, 2017.

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• The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyone's eyes.

  Jilly Cooper

  Eye, Blow, Dust

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• My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.

  Carol Vorderman

  Baby, Firsts, Rebound

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• I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

  Iris Chang

  Writing, Thinking, May

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• Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart

  Sappho

  Love, Heart, Warning

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.46, Univ of California Press

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• Homosexuality is the sexual plague of a monogamous society gone promiscuous. These societies that sow the winds of heterosexual freedom ironically reap the whirlwind of homosexual perversion.

  John W. Miller

  Wind, Gone, Homosexuality

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• Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence... Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and - now - Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Children, War, Giving

  "'For They That Sow the Wind Shall Reap the Whirlwind'". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2010.

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• Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.

  Robert Plant

  Creative, Musician, Life Is

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The hope of the world is that wisdom can arrest conflict between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of arrogant and unreasoning minds. And I find grounds for this belief in the wisdom literature of Proverbs. It says in effect this: Panic strikes like a storm and calamity comes like a whirlwind to those who hate knowledge and ignore their God.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Brother, Hate, War

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.264, Best Books on

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• There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate.

  George Eliot

  Hero, Circles, Hell

  George Eliot (2000). “Felix Holt, The Radical”, p.433, Broadview Press

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• Being able to play a role where you're there almost every day and you're just in it... I remember it was a whirlwind, but it was a lot of fun.

  Peter Jacobson

  Fun, Play, Roles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts; and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.

  Aeschylus

  Wrath, Light, Sea

  Aeschylus, Alan Shapiro, Peter Burian (2003). “The Oresteia”, p.128, Oxford University Press, USA

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• When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dark, Glasses, Confusion

  "Alias Grace". Book by Margaret Atwood, www.nytimes.com. September 1996.

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• I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life, like a whirlwind. She's ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Girl, Character, Play

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• I think people have a misconception of me, period. My life has been a whirlwind sometimes, but it's different to what people think. I definitely feel like there's a misconception about me and who I am.

  Lil' Kim

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

  "Interview: the wrath of Lil Kim". Interview with Michael Cragg, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2013.

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• [W]e declare it is a grievous sin before God to adopt restrictive measures in disobedience to God's divine command from the beginning of time to 'multiply and replenish the earth.' Surely those who project such measures to prevent life or to destroy life before or after birth will reap the whirlwind of God's retribution, for God will not be mocked.

  Harold B. Lee

  Birth Control, Earth, Sin

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• So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Mountain, Loud

  Oliver Goldsmith (1851). “The Traveller”, p.7

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• The first principle of modern cultures may be their connectedness. Culture is like wind and wind knows no boundary or center. Once there is a center, wind becomes a whirlwind.

  Mu Xin

  Wind, Principles, Culture

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• Love--what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear, A seventh heaven in a glance, a whirlwind in a sigh, The lightning in a touch, a millennium in a moment, What concentrated joy or woe in blest or blighted love! For it is that native poetry springing up indigenous to Mind, The heart's own-country music thrilling all its chords, The story without an end that angels throng to hear, The word, the king of words, carved on Jehovah's heart!

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Love, Country, Kings

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated”, p.115, Philadelphia, E. H. Butler & co.

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