Storm Quotes

I moved to New York when I was 17 and I had no idea what I was doing. I really thought I was going to take that city by storm and it taught me a lot; it was like the school of life. For me, it was like a series of really hilarious experiences in New York with getting jobs and getting fired.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the efforts and insistence of several governments.

Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.

'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm.

The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.

I am very aware that there are many of you who have friends and loved ones in the areas affected by this storm who have been displaced or who have not yet been accounted for.

There has certainly been criticism of the timing involved in getting help to the victims of the storm, and much of it may indeed be warranted. However, this is not the time for pointing fingers; rather, it is the time for offering a helping hand to our neighbors in need.

When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time.

I once dated a weather girl, we talked up a storm.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.