Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
William Shakespeare
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This is all a tempest in a teapot.
David Jackson
FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul. The sea was calm and the sky was blue; Merrily, merrily sailed we two. (High barometer maketh glad.) On the tipsy ship, with a dreadful shout, The tempest descended and we fell out. (O the walking is nasty bad!) Armit Huff Bettle.
Ambrose Bierce
The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie with sunsets, and sounds that span the diapason from tempest to tinkling raindrop, from cataract to bubbling fountain.
John Wesley Powell
Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
Ambrose Bierce
Death to a godly man is like a fair gale of wind to convey him to the heavenly country; but to a wicked man it is an east wind, a storm, a tempest, that hurries him away in confusion and amazement, to destruction.
Charles Hodge
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
REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. 'More dear than all my bosom knows, O thou Whose 'lips are sealed' and will not disavow!' So sang the blithe reporter-man as grew Beneath his hand the leg-long 'interview.' Barson Maith.
Ambrose Bierce
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Trieu Thi Trinh
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