The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.
Josiah Strong

The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world.
Jenny Shipley

The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.
Adolf Hitler

The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the efforts and insistence of several governments.
Lucas Papademos

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Vincent Van Gogh

The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.
Rick Moody

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
Aesop

The magnificent army that fought in Desert Storm is a great army, and it still is a magnificent army today. But it was one we designed for the Cold War, and the Cold War has been over for ten years now.
Eric Shinseki

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
Albert Camus

The newer homes did not sustain as much damage because they were built to better safety codes; they were better designed, higher wind loads for the roof. All of those facets made those homes sustain the storm a whole lot better.
Ginny B. Waite

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
Faye Wattleton

The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.
Charles Rangel

The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.
Russel Honore

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
Tavis Smiley

The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians.
Lynn Westmoreland

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Willa Cather

There has certainly been criticism of the timing involved in getting help to the victims of the storm, and much of it may indeed be warranted. However, this is not the time for pointing fingers; rather, it is the time for offering a helping hand to our neighbors in need.
Jo Bonner

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
Franz Grillparzer

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.
Charles Caleb Colton

'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox