Tempest Tossed Quotes

#1. Keen winter stabs the breasts of May
Whose crimson roses burst his frost,
Ships tempest-tossed
Will find a harbour in some bay,
And so we may.

Oscar Wilde

#2. Once allow your soul to be disturbed by any violent emotion and, like the waters of a tempest-tossed lake, it can no longer reflect the divine Image.

Monica Baldwin

#3. Oh, tempest-tossed believer, it is a happy trouble which drives you to your Father!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#4. Reader, it is time for your tempest-tossed vessel to come to port. What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library? Certainly there is one in the city from which you set out and to which you have returned after circling the world from book to book.

Italo Calvino

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

William Cowper

#6. Jump blind and you might find yourself on the rim of a raging volcano, or smack in the middle of a battlefield during a savage war, or on a swiftly tilting ice floe in a tempest-tossed sea.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#7. When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.

Dean Koontz

#8. I describe a soulmate as a 'soul-nurturing mate' - someone who nurtures your soul - thereby promoting insight and growth.

Karen Salmansohn

#9. Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable.

Gabe Newell

#10. Scanning through her friend requests, I delete all the males who requested to be her friend. I don't like those creepy fuckers.

K. Webster

#11. The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

D.H. Lawrence

#12. You should only speak when you have something worth saying.

Sue Townsend

#13. His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.

Terry Pratchett

#14. In a big city you become a ghost; you walk on the crowded streets and realise that you are a kind of transparent entity; an indistinct being, a thing which is not something!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If there's patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights.

Pete Carroll

#16. He walks the soft grass, wet with fresh rain, jeans slung low on his hips and shirt hanging open, still dripping from the fevered maelstrom that set fire to the night sky. Fury in his step and passion furrowing his brow...He is my perfect storm...

Virginia Alison

#17. The intermittent breeze carried her scent to me again and again , singing in another language of memories from another form .

Maggie Stiefvater

#18. I believe in destiny. I believe destiny opens doors for you, but it's up to you to walk through them.

Zac Efron

#19. I thought I was going to be a veterinarian. I was good in science and in math, and I loved animals.

Terry J. Lundgren

#20. It was even said that some birds spring to life in the tension of accidental chords being struck in the ether, a confluence of arbitrary sound waves from unrelated sources: a piano, a truck, a breaking bottle---a bird.

Carl Watson

#21. Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.

Constance Hale

#22. We've the right to dream, and that, I suppose, is the magic's greatest power: the notion that we can pick possibility from the trees like ripe fruit.

Libba Bray