Horatio Nelson Quotes

One thing you cannot control is nature.

Among all of our uncertainties weather is the most basic. We can’t live without it and we can’t control it.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect.

I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.

It’s very hard to predict the weather. Predicting human affairs is very difficult.

Blizzards, floods, volcanoes, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us

I have never been quite sure who controls the weather. Although we always prayed for clear skies, I have had to preach in all kinds of storms.

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

I've never been one to bet on the weather.

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.

I'm a big follower and reactor to weather.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.

When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature and national character are as unknowable as the weather's rationale.

We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

The climate informs the character.

I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.

You can't control everything.

You can only control so much.

Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you're going to get.

Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.