Flood Quotes - Page 20

• Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Peace, War, Men

  "Songs of the Soul". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1971.

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• Everything's got a purpose, really - you just have to look for it. Cats are good at keeping old dogs alive. Loss helps you reach for gain. Death helps you celebrate life. War helps you work for peace. A flood makes you glad you're still standing. And a tall boy can stop the wind so a candle of hope can burn bright.

  Joan Bauer

  Dog, War, Cat

  "Stand Tall". Book by Joan Bauer, August 26, 2002.

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• But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometimes there is a sudden and fierce squall. But I know that many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Grief, Feet, Water

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.144, Open Road Media

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• Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Self, Rivers, Mountain

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Men, Fire, Brave

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• ...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much life: the excess of human life.

  Pentti Linkola

  Worst Enemy, Growth, Population

  Pentti Linkola (2011). “Can Life Prevail?”, p.122, Arktos

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• [Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous part of man's potential experience without his even knowing it. We're shut off from our own world.

  Tom Wolfe

  Men, Knowing, Perception

  Tom Wolfe (1999). “The electric kool-aid acid test”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• Welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you chicken pox whooping cough smallpox malaria TB heart disease cancer and so on unemployment hunger and so on train wrecks bus accidents plane crashes on-the-job injuries earthquakes floods droughts and so on heartbreak alcoholism and so on nightsticks prisons doors and so on they're laying for you the atom bomb and so on welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you socialism communism and so on.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Baby, Jobs, Cancer

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• Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love, Water, Neglect

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.186, Random House

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• The truth is not always useful, not always good. It’s like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much can sweep you away in a flood and drown you. Like all great natural, elemental forces, the truth needs to be channeled, managed, controlled and intelligently, morally allocated.

  Iain Banks

  Rain, Water, Needs

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• Devoutly the teachers point out huge fumigated domes; but beneath the statues there's no love, no love beneath the eyes set in crystal. Love is there, in flesh ripped by thirst, in the tiny hut struggling against the flood; love is there, in ditches where snakes of hunger wrestle, in the sad sea that rocks dead gulls, and in the darkest stinging kiss under pillows.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Teacher, Struggle, Eye

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• Fairy folk a-listening Hear the seed sprout in the spring, And for music to their dance Hear the hedgerows wake from trance, Sap that trembles into buds Sending little rhythmic floods Of fairy sound in fairy ears. Thus all beauty that appears Has birth as sound to finer sense And lighter-clad intelligence.

  George Eliot

  Spring, Listening, Sound

  George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda: Easyread Edition”, p.346, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To my knowledge, not a single scientist at the Hurricane Research Division, the National Hurricane Center, or the Joint Typhoon Warning Center believes...that there is any measurable impact on hurricane numbers or activity from global warming.

  Stanley B. Goldenberg

  Believe, Impact, Weather

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• And I, the for­mer mys­tic, was think­ing: Yes, man is stronger, greater than God. When Adam and Eve de­ceived You, You chased them from par­adise. When You were dis­pleased by Noah’s generation, You brought down the Flood. When Sodom lost Your fa­vour, You caused the heav­ens to rain down fire and damna­tion. But look at these men whom You have be­trayed, al­low­ing them to be tortured, slaugh­tered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? They pray be­fore You! They praise Your name!

  Elie Wiesel

  Rain, Men, Thinking

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• He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to contain. He was immediately swept up in it. It took no effort, the difference between swimming on your own and being washed away in a flood.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Swimming, Differences, Effort

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.167, Bantam

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• It is well known that strong to violent tornado activity in the US has decreased markedly since statistics began in the 1950s, which has also been a period of average warming. So, if anything, global warming causes FEWER tornado outbreaks...not more. In other words, more violent tornados would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling,' not 'global warming.'

  Roy Spencer

  Strong, Average, Weather

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• True Socialism, in which everyone is truly equal, does not just resemble a prison - it is a prison. It can not exist unless it is surrounded by high walls, by watchtowers and by guard-dogs, for people always want to escape from any socialist regime, just as they do from a prison. If you continue your attempts to establish a model society you will need to build walls around it. You will be forced to do so sooner or later by the flood of refugees.

  Viktor Suvorov

  Dog, Wall, People

  "Inside the Soviet Army". Book by Viktor Suvorov, 1982.

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• A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.

  Stephen Crane

  Men, Tree, Firsts

  Stephen Crane (1994). “The Red Badge of Courage”, p.60, Wordsworth Editions

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• The question and the cry 'Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance 'I am!'

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Tears, World, Cry

  Rabindranath Tagore, William Radice (2011). “Gitanjali: Song Offerings”, p.176, Penguin Books India

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• Weather Panic! This is the New Normal (and We're Hopelessly Unprepared)

  Sharon Begley

  Weather, New Normal, Energy

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• Be in love with your heart-life.
  There, only there,
  Is the flood of happiness.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Love You, Heart

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• For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island exists where there is no place for impediments, no place for clinging: the island of no going beyond. I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.

  Gautama Buddha

  Spiritual, Struggle, Islands

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• It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Running, Two

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.395, Anchor

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• An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter. Whoever follows impure thoughts Suffers in this world and the next. In both worlds he suffers And how greatly.

  Gautama Buddha

  Strong, Rain, Passion

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• All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Tiny, Cups, Waterfalls

  Edwidge Danticat (2004). “Krik? Krak!”, p.14, Soho Press

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