Gale Quotes
106 quotes by 59 authors
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Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over…
— Donald Cargill
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Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.
— Donald Hamilton
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So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number of days, the…
— Joshua Slocum
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall…
— Alexander Pope
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In terms of the Richter scale this defeat was a force 8 gale.
— John Lyall
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The perennial gale of creative destruction
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the…
— Samuel Johnson
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Passions are the gales of life.
— Alexander Pope
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Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the…
— Thomas Gray
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Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed by the brunt…
— Herman Melville
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I asked these Indians: "Do men ever make Chicha?" My question was met with gales of laughter. The women howled. Bent over in hilarity, one…
— Alan D. Eames
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If (environmentalists) want to continue to beat those drums to solicit money from concerned soccer moms, they can do that. The reality on the ground…
— Christopher West
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Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.
— Robert Southwell
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Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth; no one has…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Soon will set in the fitful weather, with fierce gales and sullen skies and frosty air, and it will be time to tuck up safely…
— Celia Thaxter
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I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.
— Kohta Hirano
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Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.
— Samuel Rogers
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Some time ago we heard a strange story. The pilot of a small plane said that he had been caught in a one hundred fifty…
— James Keller
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