Top 33 Deep, Inspirational Quotes About "Hurricanes" (2022)

"I'm a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage."

--- Aaron Sorkin

#Believe #Seems #I Believe

"A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of whirlwinds swirling in one’s mind, one thinks of a way out, or a way in: out of the scorching bosom of a volcano, and in – into the centre of a raging hurricane. And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease, the odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed."

--- Adam Zagajewski

#Centre #Hurricanes #Bananas

"Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come. We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather."

--- Al Gore

#Energy #Dirty #Disturbing

"What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences."

--- Al Gore

#Feelings #States #Changed

"For a long time, the scientists have been telling us global warming increases the temperature of the top layer in the ocean, and that causes the average hurricane to become a lot stronger. So, the fact that the ocean temperatures did go up because of global warming, because of man-made global warming, starting around in the '70s, and then we had a string of unusually strong hurricanes outside the boundaries of this multi-decadal cycle that is a real factor; there are scientists who point that out, and they're right, but we're exceeding those boundaries now."

--- Al Gore

#Hurricanes #Cycles #Global Warming

"What's at risk [in 100 years] if we do not take action, truly is the survival of civilization as we know it... Literally that is the case. We have seen global warming so far of just a little bit less than one degree Celsius and look at what's happened. Superstorm Sandy. Boulder Colorado. All these fires. Hurricane Irene one year before."

--- Al Gore

#Superstorm Sandy #Ifs #Knows

"Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane. It's only half past twelve but I don't care, it's 5 O'clock somewhere."

--- Alan Jackson

#Drug #Care #Twelve

"Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn't care one whit about us. Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants."

--- Alan Lightman

#Humans #Care #Evidence

"To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane."

--- Alan Watts

#Ifs #Giving #Important

"In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking down others. Like a gap in the forest when a giant tree falls, new growth will rush in. Gradually, the asphalt jungle will give way to a real one."

--- Alan Weisman

#Knocking #New Growth #Giving

"A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane."

--- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Water #No Fear #Ocean

"To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots - religion, nation, community, family, or profession - are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources."

--- Alvin Toffler

#Way #Individual #Community

"Well, there isn't any one profile of a survivor, but there are profiles. Depending on the disaster you have certain advantages and disadvantages just based on who you are. Women are more likely to survive hurricanes. In hurricanes the deaths come from floods and people driving through high water. That's much more likely to be a man who dies that way."

--- Amanda Ripley

#People #Way #Wells

"HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old- fashioned sea-captains."

--- Ambrose Bierce

#Science #Use #Stills

"Please don't drive drunk, okay? Seriously... But by all means, walk drunk. That looks hilarious. Everyone loves to watch someone act like they are trying to make it to safety during a hurricane."

--- Amy Poehler

#Looks #Watches #Walks

"Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both."

--- Anderson Cooper

#Lying #Littles #Little Bit

"And we were Banksy on an overpass in New Orleans spray-painting porch lights on the hurricane. We were welcome mats for the un-forgiven. We never sold our windpipes to make a living. We were the letters sent to the wrong address, but opened anyway. We opened anyway."

--- Andrea Gibson

#Inspirational #Painting #Welcome

"The aspects of global warming that matter most to people - how rapidly will the seas rise? Are hurricanes already getting stronger? How strong will they get as a result of warming? Those are still immersed in complexity. So in those realms that catch people's attention most, or that get used as symbols by environmental campaigners, those facets really do come with significant back-and-forthing."

--- Andrew Revkin

#People #Results #Realms

"We currently have a government planning to go to Mars, heal broken marriages, and build bridges to nowhere - and also one that cannot wage a war competently, cannot respond to a hurricane adequately, and cannot enforce borders. Is it too much to ask that it get the basic things right before embarking on grandiose schemes?"

--- Andrew Sullivan

#Bridges #Government #War

"Michele Bachmann says God made the earthquake and hurricane to punish us. Untrue - he made Michele Bachmann for that."

--- Andy Borowitz

#Made #Earthquakes #Hurricanes

"I love whenever they downgrade a hurricane to a tropical depression, because I always think of a tropical depression as how I feel three songs into a Jimmy Buffett concert."

--- Andy Kindler

#Thinking #Feels #Song

"Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives"

--- Anna Quindlen

#Self #Reading #Spiritual

"A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste."

--- AnnaLynne McCord

#Devastated #Hurricane Katrina #American Cities

"Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms."

--- Anton Chekhov

#Knows #Should #Form

"As soon as I moved to New York, I experienced Hurricane Irene and then Hurricane Sandy hit me in quite a big way. I had 12 days without any electricity or any water. The thing that I realized the most from it was that we've become so dependent on technology. There's so much accessibility to information that suddenly when everything is cut off, you're completely lost, and you start asking deeper and more profound questions - how short life is, and how grateful we should be for things."

--- Archie Panjabi

#Short Life #Accessibility #How Short Life Is

"In March [1972] the unity of Pakistan depended on the suppression of the secessionists. But to carry it out with such brutality on the people instead of on those responsible wasn't necessary. That's not the way to convince poor people who've been told that with the Six Points there'll be no more hurricanes, no more floods, no more hunger. I spoke out against such methods more emphatically than anyone else, and when no one dared do so."

--- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

#People #Way #Method

"[Mujib Rahman] is mad, mad! And they're all mad, the press included, who repeat after him, "Three million dead, three million dead!" The Indians had let out the figure of one million. He came along and doubled it. Then tripled it. It's a characteristic of the man - he'd done the same for the hurricane."

--- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

#Done #He Man #Men

"I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina."

--- Arne Duncan

#Thinking #New Orleans #Happened

"It's not that George Bush doesn't care about black people, god made hurricanes, not people who can't swim."

--- Zach Braff

#People #Made #Care

"After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all."

--- Yann Arthus-Bertrand

#House #New Orleans #Saved

"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."

--- Winston Churchill

#Uncontrollable #Fever #Voyages

"Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter."

--- Winston Churchill

#Tides #Easy #Strange

"Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record - Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages - you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?"

--- Barbara Ehrenreich

#Hurricanes #Poison Ivy #Furry

Deep, Inspirational Quotes about "Hurricanes"