#storm

In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently. ↗

— Cedric Richmond

#business #down #drilling #efficiently #ensure

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#change #coastlines #conflict #create #global

It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#bears #black #could #does #effective

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#crossed #gotten #ocean #off #ship

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#be patient #come #cut #decision #decisions

You learn to know a pilot in a storm. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#learn #pilot #storm #you

In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm. ↗

— Jeff Sessions

#around #before #enough #failures #go

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

— Tavis Smiley

#away #came #change #lives #now