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• Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.

  Dionysius Lardner

  Ocean, Future, Moon

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• Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach... One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Powerful, Dark, Fire

  "You Were Made For This" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.awakin.org. January 28, 2008.

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• There is a portent of stormy weather ahead to which we had better give heed...No one knows when emergencies will strike...Set your houses in order. If you have paid your debts, if you have a reserve, even though it be small, then should storms howl about your head, you will have shelter for your wife and children and peace in your hearts. That's all I have to say about it, but I wish to say it with all the emphasis of which I am capable.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Religious, Children, Heart

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• Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.

  Richard de Bury

  Book, Comfort, Delight

  Richard De Bury (2006). “The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of R”, p.94, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Who sail on stormy seas;
  And that's the way I get my bread --
  A trifle, if you please.

  Lewis Carroll

  Sea, Way, Bread

  Lewis Carroll “Through The Looking Glass : Om Illustrated Classics”, Om Books International

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• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, War, Past

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• The philosophy of Africanism holds out the hope of a genuine democracy beyond the stormy sea of struggle

  Robert Sobukwe

  Philosophy, Struggle, Sea

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• Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Sea, Differences

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• As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity.

  Robert Montgomery

  Death, Anchors, Sea

  Robert Montgomery (1829). “A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell”, p.15

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• Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Peace, Sleep

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions

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• Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms

  Alexandre Dumas

  Passion, World, Littles

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• In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Inspirational, Character, Weight

  Hippolyte Taine, John Durand (1896). “The philosophy of art. The ideal in art”

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• Worshippers aren't made when they see the enemy on the run, put to flight. The truth is, worshippers of God are made during dark, stormy nights. And how we respond to our storms determines just what kind of worshippers we are.

  David Wilkerson

  Christian, Running, Dark

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• Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.

  Sophocles

  Power, Men, Wind

  Sophocles (1905). “Tragedies”

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• Here - at this final hour, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes - extinguished now, and gone from us forever.... Many will ask what Harlem finds to honor in this stormy, controversial and bold young captain - and we will smile. ...We will answer and say unto them, ‘Did you ever talk to Brother Malcolm? Did you ever really listen to him? ...For if you did you would know him. And if you knew him you would know why we must honor him.'

  Ossie Davis

  Brother, Farewell, Forever

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• The soul of woman must be expansive and open to all human beings, it must be quiet so that no small weak flame will be extinguished by stormy winds; warm so as not to benumb fragile buds... empty of itself, in order that extraneous life may have room in it; finally, mistress of itself and also of its body, so that the entire person is readily at the disposal of every call.

  Edith Stein

  Flames, Order, Wind

  Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.86, ICS Publications

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• She wasn't, nor ever had been, under the illusion that marriage was a relationship characterized by endless bliss and romance. Throw any two people together, add the inevitable ups and downs, give the mixture a vigorous stir, and a few stormy arguments were inevitable, no matter how the couple loved each other.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Couple, Two, People

  "The Best of Me". Book by Nicholas Sparks, October 11, 2011.

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• It began as most thing begin. Not on a dark and stormy night. Not foreshadowed by ominous here comes the villain music, dire warning at the bottom of a teacup, or dread portents in the sky. It began small and innocuously, as most catastrophes do. A butterfly flaps its wings somewhere and the wind changes, and a warm front hits a cold front off the coast of western Africa and before you know it you’ve got an hurricane closing in. By the time anyone figured out the storm was coming, it was too late to do anything but batten down the hatches and exercise damage control.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Butterfly, Exercise, Dark

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Jun 06, 2013

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• It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank and ice, that soon melts away, tempt us to believe in new lands, while constantly deceiving the adventurous mariner with vain hopes, and involving him in adventures which he can never leave, yet never bring to an end.

  Immanuel Kant

  Believe, Ocean, Home

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• And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

  John Donne

  Night, Scapes, Everlasting

  'A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's last going into Germany' (1619)

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• The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Thinking, Rivers

  "The Portable Nietzsche".

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• If he was winter, I was summer. If I was sunshine, he was night. A dark and stormy one.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Summer, Sunshine, Dark

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.40, Dell

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• Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.

  Dean Koontz

  Running, Perseverance, Feet

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.211, Bantam

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• It was very strange, because my father [ Erwin Rommel] received the first call at seven o'clock in the morning. And [Hans] Speidel told my father, "I will call you up in one hour when I see more clearly what's going on." After an hour, Speidel said, "Yes, the landing took place in Normandy." And the German Navy had told my father that it was too stormy. And that the British and the Americans and the French can't come. And my father believed him.

  Manfred Rommel

  Morning, Father, Navy

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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• Ah, Misha, he has a stormy spirit. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, unsolved doubt. He is one of those who don't want millions, but an answer to their questions.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Doubt, Mind, Answers

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.189, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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