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The wind, Tempestuous clarion, with heavy cry, Came bluntly thundering, more terrible Than the revenge of music on bassoons. -- Wallace Stevens
Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm. -- Mason Cooley
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. -- Joseph Conrad
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
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
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
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
The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary. -- William Gurnall
Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is a tempestuous mistress. And none of us shall ever master her. -- Lisa Ann Sandell
Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms. -- Edgar Allan Poe
God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous. -- Vincent de Paul
Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind. -- George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
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
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
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. -- Sigmund Freud
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
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
A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part. -- Robert Herrick

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