REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night ... — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest. — Arsene Houssaye Copy Share Image
In high school, I did the 'The Tempest' at Lincoln Center for Joe Papp. — Carol Kane Copy Share Image
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts... — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Do not for one repulse, forego the purpose That you resolved to effect. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord. — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
“What win I if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her)… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
I see thou art implacable, more deaf To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas Are reconcil'd at length, and… — John Milton Copy Share Image
From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to give up; I wanted to give up on living. There was no denying… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
My fine visions are all very well, but I must not forget they are absolutely unreal. I have a rosy sky and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their right mind would point at this thing and say,… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I like the line leading up to that: "I made your daughter the lead dancer, and you're not committed!" It's how people… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Fear drove many on deck that were used to avoiding the night winds and the spray. Some thought the vessel could not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I stand still for a long time, holding the note, and let it all sink in. Her leaving is almost palpable like… — Katherine Owen Copy Share Image
The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
“At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance, were almost dreaded by me,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
There are some who live by every rule and cling tightly to their rectitude because they fear being swept away by a… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image