Tempest Quotes - Page 2

Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.

If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, inTruro.

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

Good wombs have borne bad sons." -- (Miranda, I:2)

What showers arise, blown with the windy tempest of my heart

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.

It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective work.

Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.

If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase.

I don't have deal breakers," Alan said. "I look on tempests, and am never shaken.

Where billows never break, nor tempests roar.

As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals.

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

Hush! Still as death, The tempest holds his breath As from a sudden will; The rain stops short, but from the eaves You see it drop, and hear it from the leaves, All is so bodingly still.

Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.

Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.