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And the days are all dust
and the only thing worse
than losing the trust
of a lover is finding the rust
in their kiss. — Kate Tempest

The tree that stands to the tempest is strong;
the tree that refuses to bend, the strongest. — Matshona Dhliwayo

He had seen inferno and tempest, and had not only looked into the abyss but the abyss had looked into him, and then made disparaging comments. — Jonathan L. Howard

She was crawling out from under the huge tour bus when he first caught sight of her. She was small, like a child. — Christine Feehan

We mask our needs as the needs of others. — Terry Tempest Williams

Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing
faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives. — Terry Tempest Williams

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private. — Terry Tempest Williams

CONVERSATION is the vehicle for change. — Terry Tempest Williams

The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance. — Marco Tempest

What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes
Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts ... — William Shakespeare

But harboring regrets is making love to the past, and there is no movement here. — Terry Tempest Williams

The choices and decisions we make in terms of how we use the land ultimately affect our very DNA. Environmental issues are life issues. — Terry Tempest Williams

We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed. — Terry Tempest Williams

Beware of the charismatic wolf in sheep's clothing. There is evil in the world. You can be tricked. — Terry Tempest Williams

Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me. — Terry Tempest Williams

Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see. — Terry Tempest Williams

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

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

Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze. — Peter Drucker

One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared. — Marco Tempest

Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself
Upon thy wicked dam — William Shakespeare

Silence approaches the table like an overeager waiter. Hovers around making everyone feel looked at. — Kate Tempest

Beauty is a thing of might and dread.
Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us. — Kahlil Gibran

We die so others can be born
We age so others can be young
The point of life is live,
Love if you can
Then pass it on. — Kate Tempest

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. — Ambrose Bierce

Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community. — Terry Tempest Williams

How many yous have you been?
How many,
Lined up inside,
Each killing the last? — Kate Tempest

The scales of equilibrium can be found in wilderness/ — Terry Tempest Williams

She is dark browed, sarcastic and occasionally mean spirited. A knife amongst all this flesh, The kind of woman who starts chaos in strangers all day. — Kate Tempest

We know the quality of another's heart through her voice. — Terry Tempest Williams

I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts. — Terry Tempest Williams

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

Wilderness is an antidote to the war within ourselves. — Terry Tempest Williams

Everything is killing him and yet his life just keeps on dragging; the morning comes and here he is, awake again. Alive. — Kate Tempest

You mar our labour: keep your cabins:you do assist the storm[ ... ] What cares these roarers for the name of king? — William Shakespeare

A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors. — Terry Tempest Williams

I swear to the gods that if you answer one more of my questions with a question, I am going to go all Tyson and bite your damned ear off ... — Nicole Peeler

memory is the only way home. — Terry Tempest Williams

Thou most lying slave,
Whom stripes may move, not kindness! — William Shakespeare

Then to the elements be free... — William Shakespeare

I think I must be worried all the time - maybe that is the other side of joy, you know, holding that line of the full range of emotions. — Terry Tempest Williams

The silence of a wounded soul roars louder than any tempest... — Virginia Alison

I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred. — Terry Tempest Williams

I don't set boundaries for myself when I am writing; if I did, I would be paralyzed from the start, unable to write a word on the page. — Terry Tempest Williams

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen. — Terry Tempest Williams

[Sweet it is during a tempest when the gales lash the waves to watch from the shore another man's great striving.]3 — Michel De Montaigne

She loved the classics and believed in reading out loud. — Terry Tempest Williams

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

Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives. — Terry Tempest Williams

I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community. — Terry Tempest Williams

The fibres of our secular hearts are bent and bowed beneath the unaccustomed tempest. — Virginia Woolf

Abundance is a dance with reciprocity - what we can give, what we can share, and what we receive in the process. — Terry Tempest Williams

I am afraid of silence. Silence creates a pathway to peace through pain, the pain of a distracted and frantic mind before it becomes still. — Terry Tempest Williams

And all your Faithless doubts Will not destroy The rising spring In me. — Terry Tempest Williams

The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical response of joy and suffering. — Terry Tempest Williams

Life was a tempest, whether you were a milkmaid or a queen. The queens were simply better at projecting control in the middle of that storm. — Brandon Sanderson

I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me. — Terry Tempest Williams

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 you know that you have a voice," Louis said, "it's no longer the voice that matters, but what is behind the voice. — Terry Tempest Williams

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story. — Marco Tempest

Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

One man's flash of lightning, ripping through the air, is another's passing glare. Hardly there. — Kate Tempest

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale. — Plutarch

My spiritual life is found inside the heart of the wild. — Terry Tempest Williams

The wind was still making an orchestra out of the tent. But it wasn't a requiem anymore. — Kate Tempest

Wilderness is the source of what we can imagine and what we cannot - the taproot of consciousness.
It will survive us. — Terry Tempest Williams

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

Rituals are the formulas by which harmony is restored. — Terry Tempest Williams

I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history. — Marco Tempest

He lifted his eyes. They were the color of the deepest heart of hurricane clouds, deeper blue than the sky behind him. — Laura Kinsale

The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you. — Terry Tempest Williams

Greed says there is never enough. Abundance says there is more than enough. Greed closes the door behind itself. Abundance opens the door for others. — Terry Tempest Williams

It's on us, the people at the bottom to fix things for ourselves even though it's us who suffer the decisions of the people at the top the most — Kate Tempest

I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts ... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words. — Terry Tempest Williams

The difference between fear and awe is a matter of our eyes adjusting. — Terry Tempest Williams

You tell me the dead are coming through a crack in my barn, but I shouldn't worry? — Kathy Bryson

At the heart of Mormonism is a high regard for community. That is its strength. I have great respect for that. — Terry Tempest Williams

Leave the mourning to the doves because we will never die. — John Lack

Day and night, their fail and crippled ships defy the tempest. — Jorge Luis Borges

Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest. — Arsene Houssaye

Lest too light winning make the prize light. — William Shakespeare

This is wilderness, to walk in silence.
This is wilderness, to calm the mind.
This is wilderness, my return to composure. — Terry Tempest Williams

An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear. — John Dryden

Wilderness is not a place of privilege, but rather a place of probity, where the evolutionary processes of life are free to continue. — Terry Tempest Williams

Winter laid her solemn hands across the city and stroked all the colours out of the sky — Kate Tempest

The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story. — Marco Tempest

The danger is in what we codify, commodify, and exploit. — Terry Tempest Williams

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest. — Richard Whately

Each of us has one. Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening. — Terry Tempest Williams

Both the teardrop and the tempest are made of water, making it the most yielding and most destructive force on Earth. — Fiona Paul

The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. — Terry Tempest Williams

To slow down is to be taken into the soul of things. — Terry Tempest Williams

Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, 'The Tempest' loses much of its resonance. — Robert Gottlieb

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Literature was life, and reading became an open door to a world beyond the familiar. — Terry Tempest Williams

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

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find. — Terry Tempest Williams

What showers arise, blown with the windy tempest of my heart — William Shakespeare

To be numb to the world is another form of suicide. — Terry Tempest Williams

I have found what I need most to heal a broken bond is time together - the very thing I avoid is the thing most desired. — Terry Tempest Williams