Quotes with storm-swept

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  • Rabindranath Tagore Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Joseph Addison Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Aesop The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Bryan Cogman 'A Storm of Swords' is a massive volume, and it seemed like it would be shortchanging it to try to cram it into ten episodes.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Marcel Proust A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Jean Genet A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Anne Bronte A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
    Anne Bronte
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Boris Yeltsin A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Anthony Doerr Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Rose F. Kennedy Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
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  • Bradley Chicho Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust.
    Bradley Chicho
    English poet
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  • Carlos Ghosn Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common round, has crumbled into dust and been swept away in the general upheaval and reorganization of the whole of society.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Ann Druyan For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Hell's brewin' dark sun's on the rise
    This storm'll blow through by and by
    House is on fire, Viper's in the grass
    A little revenge and this too shall pass.
    The Rising (2002) Lonesome Day
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Jacques Maritain I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.
    Jacques Maritain
    French Catholic philosopher (1882 - 1973)
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  • Rose F. Kennedy I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?
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  • Hubert Humphrey I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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