Weather Quotes - Page 26

• Hurricane Irene ... the storm was huge news. In fact, the Weather Channel reported something they haven't seen in years. Viewers.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Years, Storm, News

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• Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.

  Bayard Taylor

  Dream, Fate, Sky

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics”, p.5

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• Thanks to the scientific method, most people in "developed" countries have an outlook of mild deism. We assume things like weather and disease operate according to fixed natural laws. Every so often, though, problems impinge on us so directly that we stretch beyond that mildly deistic stance and ask God to intervene. When a drought drags on too long, we pray for rain. When a young mother gets a diagnosis of cervical cancer, we solicit prayers for her healing. We beseech God as if trying to talk God into something God otherwise might not want to do.

  Philip Yancey

  Country, Mother, Prayer

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• If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence.

  J. W. N. Sullivan

  Gun, Men, Order

  J. W. N. Sullivan (2018). “Contemporary Mind - Some Modern Answers”, p.7, Read Books Ltd

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• What would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if all the sudden people weren't scared anymore?"

  James Inhofe

  Mean, People, Scared

  "Fox Takes Fair And Balanced Look At Weather "War"...With One Side" by Rachel Sklar, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2007.

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• Men go to a fire for entertainment. When I see how eagerly men will run to a fire, whether in warm or in cold weather, by day or by night, dragging an engine at their heels, I'm astonished to perceive how good a purpose the level of excitement is made to serve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Night, Men

  "The Journal, 1837-1861". Book by Henry David Thoreau, June, 1850, November 24, 2009.

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• On the contrary, it's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics . It's the things that nobody knows anything about that we can discuss. We can talk about the weather; we can talk about social problems; we can talk about psychology; we can talk about international finance gold transfers we can't talk about, because those are understood so it's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Psychology, Gold, Problem

  "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1985.

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• I doubt there's ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Doubt, Foxes, Said

  "Ruminator" Magazine, August/September 2005.

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• I have a small tattered clipping that I sometimes carry with meand pull out for purposes of privateamusement. It's a weather forecast from theWestern Daily Mail and it says, in toto: 'Outlook: Dry and warm, but cooler with some rain.

  Bill Bryson

  Rain, Mail, Purpose

  1995 Notes from a Small Island.

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• Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.

  Richard Dawkins

  Cancer, Space, World

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• Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorne and hazel mingled there; The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow bower; Fox-glove and nightshade, side by side, Emblems of punishment and pride, Group'd their dark hues with every stain The weather-beaten crags retain.

  Walter Scott

  Flower, Pride, Dark

  Walter Scott (1821). “The Poetical Works: Lady of the lake”, p.13

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• Fair weather weddings make fair weather lives.

  Richard Hovey

  Fairs

  Richard Hovey (1899). “Launcelot and Guenevere: The marriage of Guenevere”

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• Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather.

  Robertson Davies

  Summer, Character, Men

  "Three Worlds, Three Summers - But Not the Summer Just Past". Essay by Robertson Davies, 1949.

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• It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet;Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit.The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever,But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather.

  Louis MacNeice

  Fall, Blow, Glasses

  'Bagpipe Music' (1938)

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• Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather.

  Isaac Barrow

  Pain, Night, Mushrooms

  Isaac Barrow (1831). “The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.241

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• Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.

  David Hume

  Ambition, Men, Thinking

  David Hume (2016). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Revision of Great Book”, p.248, VM eBooks

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• Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She 'll bless you with the sunniest weather, Bestowing honour, pudding, pence, You can't imagine why or whence; Then in a moment Presto, pass! Your joys are withered like the grass

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Years, Joy, Together

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1852). “Lillian: And Other Poems”, p.64

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• This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax Justice of the Peace] since I have been at Home. I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.

  George Mason

  Home, Two, Justice

  Letter to his cousin, James Mercer, February 5, 1780.

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• All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to solve the problems of meteorology, despite the sensitivity of the weather to small perturbations.

  Freeman Dyson

  Science, Meteorology, Computer

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• Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission.

  Gerald M. Loeb

  Fashion, Business, Stress

  Gerald M. Loeb (2007). “Battle for Investment Survival”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

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• I like hot weather. I think it might be a bit better if England was a bit hotter.

  Freddie Highmore

  Thinking, Hot, Might

  Interview with Steave Head, www.ign.com. July 15, 2005.

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• What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars. I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway. The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.

  Alan Jackson

  Running, Country, Car

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like Los Angeles. So many artistic people, and I just love the weather.

  Carly Rae Jepsen

  People, Artistic, Los Angeles

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• I'm a tropical weather cruiser. I like surfing, you know. I like being on the beach.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Beach, Surfing, Tropical

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• L.A. is cool. If I could have the rest of my family out there, I think it would make it that much better for me. As far as work and the weather, you can't really beat it. I just wish they had the New York social life out there. That would make it perfect.

  Michael B. Jordan

  New York, Thinking, Perfect

  "Michael B. Jordan, ‘Fruitvale’ Star, Reveals His Early Tap Dancing Roots". Interview with Sasha Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2013.

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