Flood Quotes - Page 12

• While we've doubled renewable energy, it was only a tiny portion of the energy portfolio to start with. But what we did was totally take the lid off fossil fuel extractions in every way imaginable. On the day following [Barack] Obama's trip to the Louisiana floods, you know, we had, I think, another 25 million acres that went on sale in the Gulf for further extraction.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Energy, Louisiana

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?

  Judith Hayes

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Panic. You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need air, need it NOW. But your airways ignore you. They collapse, tighten, squeeze, and suddenly you're breaithing through a drinking straw. Your mouth closes and your lips purse and all you can manage is a croak. Your hands wriggle and shake. Somewhere a dam has cracked open and a flood of cold sweat spills, drenches your body. You want to scream. You would if you could. Cut you have to breathe to scream. Panic.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Drinking, Cutting, Air

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.58, A&C Black

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• Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Feet, Bears, Safe

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.452, Google Publishing

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• All sorts of yayness floods my brain. Love is such a drug.

  John Green

  Teenage Love, Love Is, Drug

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.45, Penguin

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• So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Moving, Reality, Serenity

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• There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Positive, Gratitude, Pain

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Guy, Waiting

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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• The world was floods above and fire below

  Gregory Maguire

  Fire, World

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.433, Hachette UK

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• Warm air holds more water vapor than cold, and so the atmosphere is about 4% wetter than it was 40 years ago. This loads the dice for flood and drought, and we're seeing both in stunning abundance.

  Bill McKibben

  Air, Years, Water

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• Every chance at destabilizing [Bashar] Assad... the bombing campaign causes a flood of refugees into Jordan, there's already half a million in Jordan. I think a bombing campaign - I think it's hard to argue that a U.S. bombing campaign is going to cause less refugees. And I think it causes more refugees and more of a humanitarian disaster. I think it causes, or allows, the risk of Israel being attacked with a gas attack to go up, if we attack Assad. So there's all kinds of bad things.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Israel, Risk

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• Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows. The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy

  Aidan Chambers

  Crush, Real, Being In Love

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• There is a relative order to the fossilized species of plants found in the geologic record for which Flood Geology cannot account, unless you can imagine apple and orange trees with Nike sneakers on their roots, racing past the magnolias and primitive mammals, leaving the ginkgoes back there with the dinosaurs when the Flood waters began to rise.

  Frank Zindler

  Nike, Past, Order

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• Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, Greed, Humanity

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• The mountain glaciers in every region of the world are melting, many of them at an accelerated rate, threatening drinking supplies - drinking water supplies and agricultural water supplies. We have these record storms, drought, floods, fires, three deaths (ph) in the American West, climate refugees beginning now, expected to rise to the hundreds of millions unless we take action.

  Al Gore

  Drinking, American West, Fire

  "Gore talks climate change, jobs in an interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell". www.nbcnews.com. December 9, 2009.

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• One of the reasons I think Barack Obama had the policy he did was purposely to create this flood of refugees from Syria. He wanted them!

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Reason, Syria

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.

  George Meredith

  Kissing, Sea, Honey

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.8026, Library of Alexandria

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• We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys. We can turn the most luxuriant forests into throw-away paper products. We can tear apart the great grass cover of the western plains and pour toxic chemicals into the soil and pesticides onto the fields until the soil is dead and blows away in the wind. We can pollute the air with acids, the rivers with sewage, the seas with oil - all this in a kind of intoxication with our power for devastation at an order of magnitude beyond all reckoning.

  Thomas Berry

  Blow, Oil, Rivers

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• Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions, and thus escape the flood. For these few gold has been the asset of last resort.

  Antony C. Sutton

  Gold, Lasts, Reason

  Antony C. Sutton (1977). “The War on Gold”, Concord Books

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• I've attempted to flood the path with light where I could, and where I could not I've wanted at least to hold up a candle so that others coming this way might not stumble too painfully.

  Jim Beaver

  Light, Might, Way

  Jim Beaver (2009). “Life's That Way”, p.261, Penguin

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• We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought.

  Phyllis Diller

  Fire, Mud, Californians

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• Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.

  James A. Garfield

  Ignorance, Dark, Light

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 1”, p.453, Best Books on

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• Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.

  Michael Jackson

  Song, Blood, Age

  Song: Planet Earth, 2009

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• These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some affairs for mutual and general advantage. I do not view the process with any misgivings. I could not stop it if I wished. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands, and better days.

  Winston Churchill

  Views, Land, Two

  Churchill's "The Few" Speech, www.foxnews.com. August 20, 1940.

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• My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood.

  Madeline Miller

  Earthquakes, Mind, Wish

  Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.278, A&C Black

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