Tempest Quotes
91 quotes by 77 authors
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If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude…
— George Canning
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Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.
— William Cowper
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How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of…
— William Cowper
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What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we might display, By…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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He that marries is like the dogs who was married to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which he marries; mayhap…
— Heinrich Heine
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Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds…
— Homer
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Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth
— John Ford
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It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since…
— John Muir
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When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar, 'Tis said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful…
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven Was blowing on my body, felt within A correspondent breeze, that gently moved With quickening virtue, but…
— William Wordsworth
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A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing…
— Daphne Guinness
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The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
— Epictetus
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Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
— Epicurus
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
— John Muir
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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that…
— Albert Schweitzer
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As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals.
— Martin Buber
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The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood.…
— Margaret Sanger
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If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm,…
— Pythagoras
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From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to give up; I wanted to give up on living. There was no denying that tomorrow would…
— Banana Yoshimoto
Who Wrote These Tempest Quotes
77 authors contributed a total of 91 Tempest Quotes, led by these top contributors: