Quotes with weather-cock

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  • David Hare Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.
    David Hare
    British Playwright, Director (1947 - )
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  • John Ruskin Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • John Ruskin Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Joseph Conrad The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Bill Hicks The idea of getting a, you know, syringe full of heroin and shooting it in the vein under my cock right now seems like almost a productive act.
    Im Sorry Folks
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • C. S. Lewis The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
    A Year with C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Tommy Lasorda The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.
    Tommy Lasorda
    American Baseball player (1927 - 2021)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Blaise Pascal The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
    Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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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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  • John Ruskin There is really no such thing as bad weather, only differend kinds of good weather.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Berthold Auerbach We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Marianne Williamson We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.
    Marianne Williamson
    American writer (1952 - )
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  • Cary Fowler We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In fact, the consequences of past actions are already in the pipeline. Global temperatures are rising. Glaciers are melting. Sea levels are rising. Extreme weather events are multiplying.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Vauvenargues We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Bill Nye We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Jane Austen What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot When the weather changes and hurricanes hit, nobody believes that the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. It's the same stock market with the same mechanisms and the same people.
    A Theory of Roughness
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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