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Letter "T" » tempests
«God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.»
Author: John Muir
| About:
God
| Keywords:
avalanche, avalanches, cared-for, drought, floods, saved, tempests, The Drought, The Tempest
«If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.»
Author: Pythagoras
| Keywords:
calm, depth, fluid, fluids, heat, height, prosperity, rough, smooth, soft, solid, tempest, tempests, The Tempest
«Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.»
«And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
devouring, indignation, lighting, scattering, shew, tempest, tempests, The Flame, The Tempest
«FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul.The sea was calm and the sky was blue; Merrily, merrily sailed we two.(High barometer maketh glad.) On the tipsy ship, with a dreadful shout, The tempest descended and we fell out.(O the walking is nasty bad!) --Armit Huff Bettle»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bad weather, barometer, Big Blue, descended, dreadful, fair weather, foul, high sea, huff, huffing, huffs, merrily, nasty, shout, tempest, tempests, The Big Blue, The Tempest, The Walking, tipsy
«`Try not the pass!' the old man said; / `Dark lowers the tempest overhead.'»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| Keywords:
lowers, overhead, tempest, tempests, The old man, The Tempest
«An horrid stillness first invades the ear, / And in that stillness we the tempest fear.»
Author: John Dryden
(Critic, Dramatist, Poet)
| Keywords:
invades, stillness, tempest, tempests, The Tempest
«My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
haven, havens, resting, rest home, retreat, tempest, tempests, The Tempest
«Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven»
Author: Thomas Fuller
(Clergyman, Writer)
| Keywords:
at full speed, blowing, break wind, nimbleness, storms, tempests, The Tempest, wrecking
«Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeit's not, Lust like a glutton dies, Love is all truth, Lust full»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
glutton, gluttons, lust, surfeit, surfeiting, tempest, tempests, The Tempest
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