- Encounters
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- Nov 07, 2020
Storm Quotes
What's left standing after.
This page uses storms both literally and as metaphor, from surviving falling trees to conflict appearing suddenly like rust after rain. It connects to Intensity quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Calamity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
'A Storm of Swords' is a massive volume, and it seemed like it would be shortchanging it to try to cram it into ten episodes.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020
To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that led to Gaddafi's undoing, a dictator's survival can be at risk because of newness in office, poor health, or old age combined with economic trouble.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes when you're in the storm, it's harder and maybe when it's over, then you can look back on it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad was that one person who, no matter what he did in life, he just took it by storm, and he was so passionate and just really lived in the moment. Whatever the opposite of a procrastinator is, that was him... and I think I kind of inherited a little bit of that.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in about in the 8th grade when I started recording R&B, so much of what was on was the Motown sound, and The Beatles had pretty much come over and taken America by storm.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dreams of taking the West End by storm as a dancer flickered but then faded; my father’s ambition to see me in a steady office job was tried and abandoned. But I had won a national speaking award, had stood for election to the local council, had begun to travel and took a job working for the Labour Party.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there's people used to get mad at me because I didn't hang out and things like that. I've never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I've never been posse, and all that. I'm a quiet storm.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020