Balls Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Storm Warnings' is a poem about powerlessness - about a force so much greater than our human powers that while it can be measured…

— Adrienne Rich

“Somewhere nearby, artillery thundered. Vast fields — flat as a table, without a single tree — turned any moving figure into an easy target…

— Anonymous

“Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course, and wrecked it--thus!”

— Mary Shelley

“Fear in the midst of the storm is instinctive and beneficial. Fear of a storm that could happen is not. It’s an intrusive emotion…

— David Jeremiah

Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Faced with armed men and women and stuck in theater seats while things exploded right outside, the audience tended more toward terror than analysis.”

— Elliott Kay

Bearing the burden of a secret storm.

— Martina Mcbride

The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.

— Winston Churchill

It is the stillest words that bring the storm.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow,…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“Sometimes heroics revolted him; they seemed like an insult to the soldier who weighed the risks of the situation and made calm, cunning decisions…

— Iain M. Banks