Quotes with storms

  • More in prosperity is reason tost than ships in storms, their helms and anchors lost.

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  • George Eliot There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • George Robert Gissing For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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  • Bob Riley God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • B. Wayne Hughes Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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  • Thomas Jefferson I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Louisa May Alcott I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Hannah More Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Sir John Denham More in prosperity is reason tost than ships in storms, their helms and anchors lost.
    Sir John Denham
    Anglo-Irish poet and courtier (1615 - 1669)
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  • Bill Dedman NBC News found that FEMA has redrawn maps even for properties that have repeatedly filed claims for flood losses from previous storms. At least some of the properties are on the secret 'repetitive loss list' that FEMA sends to communities to alert them to problem properties.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Jerome K. Jerome Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Epicurus Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Bai Ling Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • George Herbert Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Thomas Hobbes The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Epictetus The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Grover Cleveland The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.
    Grover Cleveland
    American politician and lawyer (1837 - 1908)
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  • Bertolt Brecht You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bai Ling You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • Thomas Fuller Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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