Gathering Storm Quotes

#1. After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often.

Gustav Klimt

#2. Joyful friends, mostly loyal, they hadn't abandoned their protector before the gathering storm; and despite the threatening sky, despite the shuddering earth, they remained, smiling, considerate, and as devoted to misfortune as they had been to prosperity.

Alexandre Dumas

#3. They both groaned into that first kiss. Four months and more of longing released in a frantic rush that started out fast and rolled into something more, faster than the gathering storm and threatening to do far more damage. And

S.E. Jakes

#4. He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky.

Louisa May Alcott

#5. Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassion and understanding. If I have compassion, then if I have more than you, which is unequal, I will still do the just thing by you.

Bell Hooks

#6. We see the storm clouds gathering and events taking place that herald the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Billy Graham

#7. The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#8. His eyes are a hazy swirl of
gray, like a thick mass of clouds gathering before an impending storm

Elle Kennedy

#9. I want to help you "fly right" in the gathering storms of the last days. You are the pilots. You are responsible to think about the consequences of every choice you make. Your righteous choices will keep you from getting off course.

Robert D. Hales

#10. I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo.

Bindi Irwin

#11. In a sinful world, no community can exist for long where nobody is ever held accountable: no teacher would grade a student's performance; no citizen would sit on a jury or call a failed leader to account.

Lewis B. Smedes

#12. A cat peeped in the window. It had one white paw. One night it had decided to dip it into the reflection of the moon in a fountain to see what would happen.

Heather O'Neill

#13. Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.

Kingsley Amis

#14. Now that I've said this, I can't help but say more, can't help but speak the words that have been gathering in my head like dark clouds before the storm, building pressure and growing, and rolling over themselves in chaos.

Carrie Ryan

#15. Set's storm is gathering," Amos said with a twinkle in his eyes. "Shall we drive into is?

Rick Riordan

#16. was as charged as if a storm were brewing. It was a storm, she told herself, and one her father had seen gathering for years. Still, it humbled her to watch an old captain like Tenira announce that he would call the first bolt down on himself.

Robin Hobb

#17. Showing up is 80 percent of life.

Woody Allen

#18. It is our business to go as we are impelled.

D.H. Lawrence

#19. It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride.

Charles Godfrey Leland

#20. The Depression was an incredibly dramatic episode - an era of stock-market crashes, breadlines, bank runs and wild currency speculation, with the storm clouds of war gathering ominously in the background ... For my money, few periods are so replete with human interest.

Ben Bernanke

#21. I think comedy should be left up to the professionals, that way everyone's safety is protected.

Greg Proops

#22. As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just a sign of our culture.

Pema Chodron

#23. I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.

Octavia Butler

#24. I can now successfully drive a stick. That's a huge accomplishment.

Shannon Miller

#25. For history is written by victors. They can write it however they want. The losers are always remembered the way the victors portray them.

Amish Tripathi