The Storm Clearing Quotes

Nazi storm troopers began as a security detail clearing the halls of Hitler's opponents during his rallies. As ~ Timothy Snyder

The storm has passed." He nodded toward the clearing skies. "The stars have come out." He paused and gazed upward. "I miss them when I'm not at sea. Out on the ocean they sparkle all around you. 'Tis like standing at the gates of heaven."
"Sounds glorious. ~ Elizabeth Boyle

Strange that she is both the anchor against the storm and the storm itself. ~ Victoria Aveyard

The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography. ~ David Hockney

The church is a clearing house for believers ~ Sunday Adelaja

The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm. ~ Vernon Howard

I may not be able to keep you, but dammit Kira, I will have you. Right here. Right now.
~Darius Legend ~ Savannah Storm

You can't expect justice from the storm, because it only knows to destroy! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations. ~ Sam Harris

There are times when a storm is just a storm. ~ Erin Hunter

God uses no one until He first puts them through the storm. The greater your mission, the greater your storm. ~ John Hagee

The atmospheric intensity of two electric lovers is the most righteous place I need to rediscover. ~ Steven Storm

There is no storm for the storm! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Man is often not defeated by the storm itself, but by his incapacity to handle the storm! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A boat can love the storm only if it is stronger than the storm! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Anybody can be a sailor when the sun is shining, can you stay on the boat when the storm comes? Because you're either in a storm, coming out of a storm or going into a storm..But the srorm is coming! ~ Abdul-Rahman

He knows when we go into the storm, He watches over us in the storm, and He can bring us out of the storm when His purposes have been fulfilled. ~ Warren W. Wiersbe

I just don't think the moon is going to be an adequate substitute for the fact that we haven't addressed ourselves to clearing up the slums. ~ Kenneth Clark

I would not live alway; I ask not to stay
Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way. ~ William Augustus Muhlenberg

They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but Storm after his father and his mother. ~ John Crowley

All over the clearing, the same thing was happening; the women gave not an inch, but their men stepped out before them. Anyone coming into the clearing would think that the women had melted into invisibility, leaving an implacable phalanx of Scotsmen staring down the glen. ~ Diana Gabaldon

When a powerful storm collides with a much more powerful storm, it will understand that his power was just a dust before the wind! You can be a giant only until a bigger giant comes and erases your existence! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

All pornography is to a degree sadistic - inevitably. ~ Storm Jameson

May all your ups and downs be between the sheets ~ Hilary Storm

Do not flatter yourself. You cannot tempt me. ~ Franca Storm

She did not so much cook as assassinate food. ~ Storm Jameson

Failures to love are irremediable and irredeemable. ~ Storm Jameson

Storm is prerequisite to mental gain ~ Eyedea

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move. ~ Colin Powell

I was hamming it up so much you could virtually taste the salad too. ~ Storm Constantine

If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises. ~ Storm Jameson

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

We dwell in forever. ~ Storm Constantine

The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers? ~ Bertolt Brecht

Cam stepped into the clearing. His eyes were rimmed with a thick, shimmering gold shadow, and it shone on his face in the moonlight, making him look like a wildcat. ~ Lauren Kate

Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire, free of grasping, free of ego, free of the self-contraction. And through that opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity; who can say otherwise, when time itself is supendend in the clearing that great art creates in your awareness? ~ Ken Wilber

When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the time to reach her hand through the mesh and say my name before the spear enters her body. ~ Suzanne Collins

It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish which lies in the way to knowledge. ~ John Locke

Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within. ~ Frederick Buechner

Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop. ~ Joseph Chamberlain

Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing. ~ Ming-Dao Deng

The beauties of nature come after the storm. The rugged beauty of the mountain is born in a storm, and the heroes of life are the storm-swept and battle-scarred. ~ Lettie B. Cowman

There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead. ~ George W. Bush

I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven ~ Gary Oldman

We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math. ~ Michelle Obama

We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest. ~ George Eliot

Don't worry about it. I'll get you in. ~ P.W. Storm

If you can't stand the storm, fly above it. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

One person can bring favor to many during the storm. ~ Beth Moore

You're calling out the wolf, darlin'. ~ Franca Storm

Storms do not ground eagles; they lift them higher. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You are weak with love for her, brother. ~ Franca Storm

He had the compassion of a vivisectionist. ~ Storm Constantine

It is through seeking that you will grow. ~ Hyemeyohsts Storm

Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest. ~ Horace

I write and believe so
those who read will share my vision. ~ S. Raven Storm

Since there is nothing new under the sun. The aim of motivation is to confirm what you already know. Simply, clearing your doubts. ~ Mwanandeke Kindembo

The storm catches everyone, eventually. Does it matter? ~ Brandon Sanderson

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm. ~ Sam Harris

Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could later paint the storm. Obviously, it was not the storm itself that Turner intended to paint. What he intended to paint was a representation of the storm. One's language is frequently imprecise in that manner, I have discovered. ~ David Markson

An eagle uses the negative energy of a storm to fly even higher. ~ Eric Thomas

The profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself; for indeed, the calm is but the wrapper and envelop of the storm, and contains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the fatal powder, and the ball, and the explosion. ~ Herman Melville

The big nest was in Afghanistan, thats not quite cleared, then there are nests in the Philippines, there are nests in Indonesia, the Malaysians are clearing up their nests. ~ Lee Kuan Yew

Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit. ~ Storm Jameson

I could be a morning person -- but only if morning started at noon! ~ Carol Storm

Feelings are never silly, dearest. ~ Carol Storm

War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost. ~ Kenneth Kaunda

Peace is an ocean,
harmony is the ship,
tolerance is the captain,
and strife is the storm.
Joy is an ocean,
faith is the ship,
hope is the captain,
and despair is the storm.
Love is an ocean,
kindness is the ship,
compassion is the captain,
and greed is the storm.
Virtue is an ocean,
prudence is the ship,
goodness is the captain,
and vice is the storm.
Friendship is an ocean,
trust is the ship,
patience is the captain,
and betrayal is the storm.


Destiny is an ocean,
purpose is the ship,
character is the captain,
and misfortune is the storm.
Experience is an ocean,
the present is the ship,
the past is the captain,
and pain is the storm.
The soul is an ocean,
the heart is the ship,
the soul is the captain,
and darkness is the storm.
Life is an ocean,
reality is the ship,
awareness is the captain,
and mortality is the storm.
Eternity is an ocean,
time is the ship,
destiny is the captain,
and death is the storm. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm. ~ Jeff Sessions

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for the deliverance from fear. It is the storm within that endangers him, not the storm without. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

a storm that walked on legs of lightning,
dragging its shaggy belly over the fields. ~ Ted Kooser

Wearing that personal trainer nametag doesn't make you right #AHOLE ~ A.O. Storm

Keep reading. Things go downhill fast." Because they always do when you fuck people you're not supposed to. ~ Mia Storm

Planning to stay on your leash, wolf? Or would you rather let loose? ~ Franca Storm

It is better to endure a storm than to run to the wrong shelter. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you make great music, you can become a mold breaker or a trailblazer. It's a little scary to do that because you can't always see what's in front of you, but you're clearing out a path for people behind you to follow. ~ Anthony Evans

The body is a self-healing organism, so it's really about clearing things out of the way so the body can heal itself. ~ Barbara Brennan

The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art. ~ LaToya Jackson

wasn't a storm meant to destroy - but it was the perfect storm of God's purifying and refining grace. ~ Kimberly Wagner

There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute. ~ Storm Jameson

Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people, was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure corners in one's own mind. ~ Thomas Huxley

I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love. ~ Michael Connelly

The looming storm broke in the end. And it is the storm I will remember, the sound of the downpour splattering over the steps of the Tuileries, the dark sky and the pink lightning. I could have stayed like that for centuries. ~ Hélène Berr

Cora, you can turn around now. Your virgin eyes won't be offended any longer. ~ Franca Storm

For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service. ~ Ron Wyden

Clutter-clearing is modern-day alchemy. ~ Denise Linn

If you waste time looking at the storm, you might miss the sunshine. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

No one who has passed through the storm has ever regretted the journey. No one stands here and wishes to go back to the other side. ~ Glenn Beck

Language is memory and metaphor. ~ Storm Jameson

The storm is out there and every one of us must eventually face the storm. When the storm comes, pray that it will shake you to your roots and break you wide-open. Being broken open by the storm is your only hope. When you are broken open you get to discover for the first time what is inside you. Some people never get to see what is inside them; what beauty, what strength, what truth and love. They were never broken open by the storm. So, don't run from your pain - run into your pain. Let life's storm shatter you. ~ Bryant McGill

It is a ship that fights the storm, but its architect who gets all the praise. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But ... if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place. ~ Neil Simon

And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about. ~ Haruki Murakami

The calm before the storm ~ Derek Landy

If only a horrible storm can demolish the castle of the devil, then let the storm be victorious! It is not uncommon that heaven comes after hell! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I found it hateful, yet I wanted to be part of it. ~ Storm Constantine

I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me. ~ Andrew Jackson

Life is a circus: you go in, bow, run around, bow again and leave. ~ Storm Petersen

The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows. ~ Friedrich Schiller