Tempestuous Quotes

26 quotes by 25 authors

Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise. — Dinah Shore
This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless… — John Maynard Keynes
Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk… — William Shakespeare
The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars. — Oliver Goldsmith
The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Follow your passion, weâ€™re often told. But how do you find your passion? Let me put it another way: what is it that breaks your… — Umair Haque
Bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, Startle the forest and make the heights tremble. Clouds darken beneath the darkness of rain, streams pale with… — Li Bai
The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary. — William Gurnall
Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous. — Vincent de Paul
Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come;… — Madame de Stael
Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be… — Lauren Groff
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. — Joseph Conrad
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm. — Mason Cooley
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. — Thomas Jefferson
Love is a tempestuous mistress. And none of us shall ever master her. — Lisa Ann Sandell
As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcastâ€”alternately tempestuous and sereneâ€”so is the life… — Edmund Burke
Though Alec had never seen the occupants of the first floor loft, they seemed to be engaged in a tempestuous romance. Once there had been… — Cassandra Clare
Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I worship pianos like they are prize diamonds, and I never willfully do damage to them. But I grew up playing guitars, and you treat… — Jamie Cullum

Who Wrote These Tempestuous Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 26 Tempestuous Quotes as follows: