Stormy Quotes - Page 6

• I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen.

  Lord Byron

  Sad, Sea, Lovers

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.155

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• I like storms. I would say I actively like stormy weather. I would not be afraid of them. I think that if I had not pursued journalism, I think storm-chasing would've been a really fun career.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Fun, Thinking, Weather

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• For humans as well as for ships, dark stormy nights are better teachers than tranquil sunny days.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Teacher, Dark, Night

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• New Orleans is 5 feet below sea level, which means that holes dug in the ground immediately fill with water. Coffins were punctured and sunk with weights, which didn't stop them from floating up out of the cemeteries and down the streets of the French Quarter on stormy nights. The solution was to bury people above ground, in what are called vaults.

  James Cagney

  Mean, Night, New Orleans

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• The stormy March has come at last, With winds and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies.

  William C. Bryant

  Clouds, Wind, Sky

  William Cullen Bryant, “March”

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• Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men,
  Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars
  Makest to teem the many-voyaged main
  And fruitful lands- for all of living things
  Through thee alone are evermore conceived,
  Through thee are risen to visit the great sun-
  Before thee, Goddess, and thy coming on,
  Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away,
  For thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers,
  For thee waters of the unvexed deep
  Smile, and the hollows of the serene sky
  Glow with diffused radiance for thee!

  Lucretius

  Mother, Stars, Flower

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.181, Delphi Classics

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• Financial innovation can be highly dangerous, though almost no one will tell you this. New financial products are typically created for sunny days and are almost never stress-tested for stormy weather. Securitization is an area that almost perfectly fits this description; markets for securitized assets such as subprime mortgages completely collapsed in 2008 and have not fully recovered. Ironically, the government is eager to restore the securitization markets back to their pre-collapse stature.

  Seth Klarman

  Stress, Government, Weather

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• Perhaps the most incapable Executive that ever filled the presidential chair...it would be difficult to imagine a man less fit to guide the state with honor and safety through the stormy times that marked the opening of the present century.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Safety, Presidential

  Theodore Roosevelt (1987). “The Naval War of 1812, Or, The History of the United States Navy During the Last War with Great Britain: To which is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans”, Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press

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• I got so good at writing to a budget, my brain was restricting myself. I'd write, "It's a stormy night." Then I'd cross out stormy. I'd write: "It's a calm night." Then I'd cross out night. It's noon. Because you know how much night costs. You know how much rain costs. Nothing comes free in movies.

  Albert Brooks

  Rain, Writing, Night

  "Albert Brooks: What I've Learned". Esquire, "The Meaning of Life" issue, www.esquire.com. January 2011.

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• Is the peace of God in the soul disturbed by things down here? No, never! If waters break in stormy currents against a rock, the rock is unmoved; it is only the waters that are disturbed.

  George Wigram

  Rocks, Water, Soul

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• Grant me the stormy seas over a life of ease, the toil and madness of a life of effort, and adventure , and meaning. The safe harbor is not for me, not for long. Let the fearful stand at the shore and point as we head into the unknown, toward that vast horizon where the bold become legend.

  Brendon Burchard

  Adventure, Positive Thinking, Sea

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• Stormy Weather is really wonderful - it ought to be required reading for everyone who is concerned about our planet's climate, beginning in every high school in the country.

  Ross Gelbspan

  Country, Reading, School

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• G.K. Chesterton, who was part of a Catholic conservatism that was kind and loving, not reactionary or hateful, said "We're all in the same boat in a stormy sea and we owe each other a terrible loyalty." I think that's profoundly true, yet it's difficult to have civil dialogue right now with other Christians, so how can we possibly talk to "all the nations"?

  Richard Rohr

  Christian, Loyalty, Thinking

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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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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• Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Lonely, Gratitude, Attitude

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.32, Random House

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