Top 41 Tempestuous Quotes

#1. The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.

William Gurnall

Tempestuous Quotes #4488
#2. Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

Dinah Shore

Tempestuous Quotes #14401
#3. And it's not red, it's auburn, and I'm not feisty or tempestuous or any of the other things red hair is supposed to signify. Anyways, as I said, it's auburn.

Kate Alcott

Tempestuous Quotes #31000
#4. Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?

Madame De Stael

Tempestuous Quotes #50088
#5. To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

Joseph Conrad

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#6. Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

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#7. The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.

Edgar Allan Poe

Tempestuous Quotes #138500
#8. Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.

Edna Ferber

Tempestuous Quotes #141287
#9. Darcy's got the tempestuous masculinity and brooding looks, but Knightley is a kinder, softer man with no pretense or dissimilation.

Katherine Reay

Tempestuous Quotes #159103
#10. The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.

Oliver Goldsmith

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#11. When life throws difficulties at us and the mind is restless, emotional resilience will see us through challenging times. We can work through tempestuous emotions and self-doubt and come through them unharmed and avoid self-sabotage and self-harm.

Christopher Dines

Tempestuous Quotes #337279
#12. The tempestuous stretch of river below that dam, however, represents something no less central to the national ethos: the fact that another aspect of our character as a people derives from an extended encounter with wilderness.

Kevin Fedarko

Tempestuous Quotes #374052
#13. A rugged but sensitive but tough but loving but horny but smart hero having his way with a protesting but willing but struggling but yielding tempestuous female.

Neal Stephenson

Tempestuous Quotes #427171
#14. Loud roars the wild tempestuous sea, Your presence, Lord, shall comfort me.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Tempestuous Quotes #441535
#15. Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide, So am I driven by breath of her renown Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive Where I may have fruition of her love.

William Shakespeare

Tempestuous Quotes #489346
#16. Love is a tempestuous mistress.
And none of us shall ever master her.

Lisa Ann Sandell

Tempestuous Quotes #548998
#17. Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

Mason Cooley

Tempestuous Quotes #598489
#18. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

John Maynard Keynes

Tempestuous Quotes #657593
#19. In this snug, over-safe corner of the world ... we may realize that our comfortable routine is no eternal necessity of things, but merely a little space of calm in the midst of the tempestuous, untamed and streaming world.

George F. Will

Tempestuous Quotes #661714
#20. Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us
O'er the world's tempestuous sea;
Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us,
For we have no help but Thee.

James Edmeston

Tempestuous Quotes #694184
#21. God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous.

Vincent De Paul

Tempestuous Quotes #713537
#22. Bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, Startle the forest and make the heights tremble. Clouds darken beneath the darkness of rain, streams pale with a pallor of mist. The gods of Thunder and Lightning Shatter the whole range.

Li Bai

Tempestuous Quotes #756593
#23. She had the theory of youth about love, that it was a violent thing, tempestuous and passionate. She thought that love demanded, not knowing that love gives first, and then asks.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Tempestuous Quotes #816125
#24. A life without a storm would lack drama. Pounding waves of a tempestuous sea test a person's mettle. A fearless sailor climbs the rigging and shouts out at the top of their lungs into the wind and rain whipping across their face that they will not go quietly into the good night without a fight.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Tempestuous Quotes #886837
#25. As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast - alternately tempestuous and serene - so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.

Edmund Burke

Tempestuous Quotes #955455
#26. The evening was cold and tempestuous, the rain poured in torrents, and the distant thunders rolled with tremendous noise round the adjacent mountains, whilst the pale lightning added horrors to the scene.

Eliza Parsons

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#27. The sea was a tempestuous woman, roughly angry one day, silkily soothing another. No other natural phenomenon reflected their moods as deeply as the sea. It was beauty. It was wrath. It was everything.

Tricia O'Malley

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#28. You said,' Camille protested, 'that when you wanted to get on terms with Gabrielle you cultivated her mother. It's true, everybody saw you doing it, boasting in Italian and rolling your eyes and doing your tempestuous southerner impersonation.

Hilary Mantel

Tempestuous Quotes #1129765
#29. Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

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#30. Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.

Cesare Pavese

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#31. Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Tempestuous Quotes #1245334
#32. The wind,
Tempestuous clarion, with heavy cry,
Came bluntly thundering, more terrible
Than the revenge of music on bassoons.

Wallace Stevens

Tempestuous Quotes #1367067
#33. I worship pianos like they are prize diamonds, and I never willfully do damage to them. But I grew up playing guitars, and you treat a guitar like a best friend or a little brother or a lover you have a tempestuous relationship with.

Jamie Cullum

Tempestuous Quotes #1384980
#34. Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.

Alan Huffman

Tempestuous Quotes #1418138
#35. Friends and family argue and fight, but it means nothing. It's human nature. Love isn't perfectly patient or kind or sunny. Love is volatile and tempestuous and forgiving.

Alyssa Day

Tempestuous Quotes #1445151
#36. The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tempestuous Quotes #1562645
#37. I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.

Mackenzie Davis

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#38. Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#39. But Mithgar ... Mithgar is yet wild, tempestuous, unkept, savage, turbulent, exciting. We come here to feel alive.

Dennis L. McKiernan

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#40. Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be so much more thrilling when you're actively miserable.

Lauren Groff

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#41. Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Tempestuous Quotes #1835822

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