Weather Quotes - Page 30

• Weather tonight: dark. Turning partly light by morning.

  George Carlin

  Morning, Dark, Light

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• Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to no law according to which any calculation could be made beforehand of their amount; and yet the yearly registers of these events in great countries prove that they go on with as much conformity to the laws of nature as the oscillations of the weather.

  Immanuel Kant

  Country, Science, Law

  Immanuel Kant (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)”, p.812, Delphi Classics

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• Typhoons are a sort of violent whirlwinds. Before these whirlwinds come on... there appears a heavy cloud to the northeast which is very black near the horizon, but toward the upper part is a dull reddish color. The tempest came with great violence, but after a while, the winds ceased all at once and a calm succeeded. This lasted... an hour, more or less, then the gales were turned around, blowing with great fury from the southwest.

  William Dampier

  Clouds, Color, Wind

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• Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.

  A. A. Milne

  Numbers, Conversation, Refreshing

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Not That it Matters”, p.64, The Floating Press

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• Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Soul, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.25, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of the country would be thrown out of gear. Before the era of steam-engines, windmills were tried for draining mines; but though they were powerful machines, they were very irregular, so that in a long tract of calm weather the mines were drowned, and all the workmen thrown idle.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Country, Powerful, Wind

  William Stanley Jevons (1866). “The coal question: an enquiry concerning the progress of the Nation, and the probable exhaustion of our coal-mines”, p.144

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• Why not include a provision that everybody shall, in good weather, hunt on his own land and catch fish in rivers that are public property and that Congress shall never restrain any inhabitant of America from eating and drinking, at seasonable times, or prevent his lying on his left side, in a long winter's night, or even on his back, when he is fatigued by lying on his right.

  Noah Webster

  Lying, Drinking, Winter

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• In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold weather and rain.... the demand for goods is widely influenced by metaphysical, religious, and ethical considerations, by aesthetic value judgments, by customs, habits, prejudice, tradition, changing fashions, and many other things.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Religious, Fashion, Rain

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.290, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I love L.A. I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle. As opposed to New York, where you just drink all day.

  Jack Reynor

  New York, Nice, Rain

  "Questions And Answers From Tribeca: Jack Reynor". Interview with Kase Wickman, www.mtv.com. April 26, 2013.

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• If there is any danger in the present weather, in the name of God, Monsieur, wait until spring

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Spring, Names

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.

  W. Richard Stevens

  Country, Jobs, Years

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• Aside from its importance to many branches of science, a knowledge of the oceans has a practical value for mankind. The intelligent development of our fishing industries, the laying of oceanic cables, the proper construction of harbor-works, oceanic commerce and navigation, as well as long-range weather forecasting, are all dependent on an understanding of the ocean.

  Paul J. H. Schoemaker

  Ocean, Intelligent, Fishing

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• Walking aft a few feet we stand at the steering gear of the ship. There is no cozy; wheel-house on the bridge for the quartermaster of a sailing ship! He must stand at the very stern, with an unobstructed view of the sails. When sailing "by the wind" his eye is glued to the weather-side of the uppermost sail; he keeps it drawing a trace of wind, but never lets it fill.

  Paul J. H. Schoemaker

  Ocean, Eye, Bridges

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• This infantile sense of order tended to infect my life at large. Up at 5:30 a.m., coffee, oatmeal, perhaps sausage (homemade), and fresh eggs giving one of the yolks to Lola. Listening to NPR and grieving more recently over the absence of Bob Edwards who was the sound of morning as surely as birds. Reading a paragraph or two of Emerson or Loren Eiseley to raise the level of my thinking. Going out to feed the cattle if it was during our six months of bad weather.

  Jim Harrison

  Morning, Reading, Coffee

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• Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity to underline and perfect events - the shifts in the seasons and the weather, the changes that run through people themselves.

  Tove Jansson

  Running, Grandmother, People

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• Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a large hole at portrait level in the far wall, caused by mortar-shell attack on the villa two months earlier. The rest of the room had adapted itself to this wound, accepting the habits of weather, evening stars, the sound of birds.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Stars, Wall, Doors

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.12, A&C Black

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• My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in a tornado's aftermath, birdsong, sunshine, supersaturated colors, wreckage all around, and myself, dazed and limping.

  Kate Christensen

  Sunshine, Color, Bird

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• I don't make plans, because life is short and unpredictable - much like the weather!

  Al Roker

  Inspirational, Life Is Short, Unpredictable

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

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• I always say that in order to appreciate warm weather, you must experience cold. I wouldn't change one thing - all the embarrassing moments, the defeats, all of everything - through all of this, I have learned me.

  Floyd Patterson

  Sports, Order, Appreciate

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• Autism, like a rainbow, has a bright side and a dark side and even though it can mean rough weather, it can be beautiful!

  Stuart Duncan

  Beautiful, Mean, Dark

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• It’s one thing if you are a luxury brand and have been around for 60 years and can weather the retail storm we’ve had, but if you are a new brand that’s just starting out — whether you are a writer or a retailer — innovating through social media is crucial. Those that are hidden and guarded will not progress.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Years, Luxury, Media

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• Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports, and the weather forecast are about the only things spared.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Laughter, Taken, Greek

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.49, Verso

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• Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Quality, Profit Margin, Economic

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• People should not say that this or that is not worth learning, giving as their reason that it will not be put to use. They can no more know what information they will need in the future than they will know the weather two hundred years from today.

  Clara Barton

  Years, Two, People

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• A journalist is the lookout on the bridge of the ship of state. He notes the passing sail, the little things of interest that dot the horizon in fine weather. He reports the drifting castaway whom the ship can save. He peers through fog and storm to give warning of dangers ahead. He is not thinking of his wages or of the profits of his owners. He is there to watch over the safety and the welfare of the people who trust him.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Thinking, Fog, Bridges

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