Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iyanla Vanzant

Spirit is the key to everything we desire. It is our weather-proofing, our Teflon, our line of credit that assures if we just keep putting one foot in front of the other, one day; there will be a miraculous payoff.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Situations emerge in the process of creative destruction in which many firms may have to perish that nevertheless would be able to live on vigorously and usefully if they could weather a particular storm.

Norman Vincent Peale

Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.

Ellen MacArthur

There's a plane flying over me and I'm looking forward to being able to relax and not worry about the weather or boat speed.

Ellen Glasgow

Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

Emily Bronte

...I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow...

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.

O. Henry

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

Meriwether Lewis

The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.

Michael Chabon

Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels every one of our acts and attainments and every moment of our life histories, this knowledge is to storytelling what rust is to oxidation; the writer of horror holds with those who favor fire. The horror writer is not content to report on death as the universal system of human weather; he or she chases tornadoes. Horror is Stoicism with a taste for spectacle.

Martha Stewart

I have cotton or flannel sheets, depending on the weather. They have to be ironed, and I get my bed changed nearly every day.

Terrell Owens

It doesnt matter what people say about me, I weather the storm.

Theodore White

The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.

Mahatma Gandhi

Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.

Michael Pollan

The first thing to understand about nutritionism is that it is not the same thing as nutrition. As the "-ism" suggests, it is not a scientific subject but an ideology. Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's still exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather--all pervasive and so virtually impossible to escape. Still, we can try.

George Allen

Losers never know why they are losing. They will mention injuries, the officiating, the weather and bad breaks.

John Burroughs

I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.

John Burroughs

In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled.

Joel Osteen

We live in a society that likes to kick people when they’re down. Don’t be a fair-weather friend. Stick with people. They need you more in the tough times than they do in the good times.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.

John Flavel

Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid and bleaching, they alter the hue and make them white.

John Flanagan

It formed into small drops on his weather beaten features, drops that rolled down his cheeks. Strangely, some of them tasted like salt.

Lisa Guerrero

So I plan to prepare thoroughly and have several outfits waiting in the wings in case of inclement weather.

Lionel Trilling

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

Karl Pilkington

I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla's just sat there doing nowt.

John Masefield

Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.

Jimmy Buffett

I'm a big follower and reactor to weather.

Jim Rohn

Since you cannot control the weather, or the traffic, or the one you love, or your neighbors, or your boss, then you must learn to control you... the one whose response to the difficulties of life REALLY counts.

Katharine Cornell

Actors are as anxious about the state of audiences as aviators are over weather conditions.

Katharine Whitehorn

[On the English climate:] People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.

Karen Russell

My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.

Juan Pablo Galavis

I dont like Miami that much. I dont like the weather. My base is Miami, but I travel a lot.

Kathryn Stockett

It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation.