Quotes with storm-swept

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  • Booth Tarkington Out of the north Atlantic a January storm came down in the night, sweeping the American coast with wind and snow and sleet upon a great oblique front from Nova Scotia to the Delaware capes.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Brad Gilbert Sometimes when you're in the storm, it's harder and maybe when it's over, then you can look back on it.
    Brad Gilbert
    American tennis player (1961 - )
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  • Burt Bacharach Somewhere there's a happy harbor
    far from the storm.
    Out where the sun shines there is someone
    I'm meant to adore,
    and I know the day I find her,
    I'll smile once more.
    Source: Song Nikki
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Ben Affleck The first 'Star Wars' movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America. But internationally, it was also a big deal.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Albert Camus The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bob Barr The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Heinrich Heine The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Their peace and their war
    Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
    Source: Poems, 1913-1956
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Willa Cather There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Dorothy Parker They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Bobby Jindal This is a serious storm that has caused serious damage in our state... We're pleased we haven't seen breaches in the levees. We're pleased we haven't seen major flooding in New Orleans or the places that flooded before. But there are serious challenges.
    Source: The Washington Post, published September 2, 2008
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • W. Williams Time is a storm in which we are all lost.
    W. Williams
     
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Robert Frost Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Baltasar Kormakur With a huge storm, you need a lot of volume, but it can't become one loud noise. Dolby Atmos helped a lot because it gave us the separation of those elements.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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