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Gale Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree…
- And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will…
- Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know…
More Gale Quotes
- Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly… — Donald Cargill
- Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know. — Donald Hamilton
- So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number… — Joshua Slocum
- Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the… — Alexander Pope
- In terms of the Richter scale this defeat was a force 8 gale. — John Lyall
- The perennial gale of creative destruction — Joseph A. Schumpeter
- He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the… — Samuel Johnson
- Passions are the gales of life. — Alexander Pope
- Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain!… — Thomas Gray
- Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed… — Herman Melville
- I asked these Indians: "Do men ever make Chicha?" My question was met with gales of laughter. The women howled. Bent over… — Alan D. Eames