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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. -- Albert Schweitzer
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest. -- Epicurus
To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons. -- William Shakespeare
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find. -- William Shakespeare
Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze. -- Peter Drucker
If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death! -- William Shakespeare
Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, 'The Tempest' loses much of its resonance. -- Robert Gottlieb
I've played Hamlet and Coriolanus, Orlando in 'As You like It' and Ariel in 'Tempest,' among others. -- Christian Camargo
Cast out thy Jonah--every sleeping and secure sin that brings a tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit. -- Frederic Reynolds
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. -- Epictetus
And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge. -- William Shakespeare
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. -- John Muir
I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element. -- Kenneth Branagh
Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill. Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest. -- George Washington
It is not the tempest, nor the earthquake, nor the fire, but the still small voice of the Spirit that carries on the glorious work of saving souls. -- Robert M
My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul. -- Michel de Montaigne
If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death. -- Pythagoras
I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that's how I always read 'The Tempest,' for example. -- Hanya Yanagihara
People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.' -- Ian Doescher
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door. -- Emma Lazarus
I've watched with a kind of wary eye how gaming has progressed. I was there at the beginning with Pong in the arcade, and a lot of my great childhood memories were around a 'Tempest' machine. -- Trent Reznor
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But Lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies. -- William Shakespeare
For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they may work All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em. -- William Shakespeare
I will light candles this Christmas, Candles of joy, despite all sadness, Candles of hope where despair keeps watch. Candles of courage where fear is ever present, Candles of peace for tempest-tossed days, Candles of grace to ease heavy burdens. Candles of love to inspire all my living, Candles that will burn all the year long. -- Howard Thurman
In a world of discouragement, sorrow, and overmuch sin, in times when fear and despair seem to prevail, when humanity is feverish with no worldly physicians in sigh, I too say, Trust Jesus. Let Him still the tempest and ride upon the storm. Believe that He can lift mankind from its bed of affliction, in time and in eternity. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest. -- George Herbert
A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest. -- Thomas Browne
The characters [of The Tempest] have always been favorites of mine. It is one of his meditations on art - what it does. -- Margaret Atwood
It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective work. -- Edward Hirsch
Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain Tempest. It's two different titles, -- Bob Dylan
I saw all of the films [based on The Tempest] available, including the one with Helen Mirren in which Prospero is Prospera - you wonder, "Would it work?" But it does, because anything she does works. -- Margaret Atwood
When tempest tossed, embrace chaos. -- Dean Koontz
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest. -- Epicurus
Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all. -- Will Carleton
A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities. -- Daphne Guinness
When it comes to the teapot tempest that is the Hillary Clinton email imbroglio, the real controversy isn't about politics or regulations. It's about journalism and the weak standards employed to manufacture the scandal du jour. -- Kurt Eichenwald
A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not. -- Bjornstjerne Bjornson
However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous. -- Jules Verne
I always loved both 'Breakout' and 'Asteroids' - I thought they were really good games. There was another game called 'Tempest' that I thought was really cool, and it represented a really hard technology. It's probably one of the only colour-vector screens that was used in the computer graphics field at that time. -- Nolan Bushnell
Flying into a storm, even its outer edges, did not seem like a good idea to me. And this was no ordinary tempest. Everyone on the bridge knew what it was: the Devil's Fist, a near-eternal typhoon that migrated about the North Indian basin year-round. She was infamous, and earned her name by striking airships out of the sky. -- Kenneth Oppel
When tempest tossed, embrace chaos -- Dean Koontz
The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall. -- Seneca the Younger
What showers arise, blown with the windy tempest of my heart -- William Shakespeare
Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. -- Edward Young
move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest. -- Amelia Barr
Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost. -- William Cowper
This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again. -- Brandon Sanderson
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear. -- John Dryden
For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved. -- Cyprian
Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest. -- Richard Whately
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it. -- Walter Scott
A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her. -- Robert E. Howard
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth -- John Ford
Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest. -- Arsene Houssaye
REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. -- Ambrose Bierce
No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale. -- Plutarch
The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord. -- Joe Walsh
Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest. -- Isaac Watts
Beauty is a thing of might and dread.Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us. -- Kahlil Gibran
The tempest unleashes an alphabetletters fall through the apertures of crazy anglesto spell out the futureuprooting the course of inventionand enslaving the masters -- Nancy Peters
Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest. -- Luc de Clapiers
Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged. -- Aeschylus
Have faith! where'er thy bark is driven, 'The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, Know this! God rules the host of heaven, The inhabitants of earth. -- Friedrich Schiller
Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale Is wild within me! what may quell That sullen tempest? I must sail Whither, O whither, who can tell! -- Edmund Clarence Stedman
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt. -- Petrarch
How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. -- William Cowper
If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, inTruro. -- Henry David Thoreau
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
Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest. -- Pythagoras
Through wind, and tempest, storm, and rain; The calm shall be buried inside of me; A warm stone, heavy and dry; The root, the source, a weapon against pain -- Lauren Oliver
To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable. -- Elizabeth Goudge
Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti. Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock. -- Dante Alighieri
The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate. -- Socrates
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines. -- Trieu Thi Choi
The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat. -- Lewis Francis Herreshoff
Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all. -- Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
The poet is like the prince of clouds Who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer; Exiled on the ground in the midst of jeers, His giant wings prevent him from walking. -- Charles Baudelaire
If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase. -- Thomas Jefferson
A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze? -- Victor Hugo

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