Flood Quotes - Page 21

• These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states of mind generated by these teachings, How much more so should you abandon bad states of mind!

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Teaching, Buddhism

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• The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.

  Noam Chomsky

  Keys, Issues, Political

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• A remarkable thing about me is that the time that elapses between a sad thought and a flood of tears is three or four seconds.

  Mindy Kaling

  Tears, Three, Four

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.169, Crown/Archetype

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• In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.

  Madeline Miller

  Love, Light, Hands

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• I had always imagined Rosa Parks as a stately woman with a bold temperament, someone who could easily stand up to a busload of glowering passengers. But when she died in 2005 at the age of ninety-two, the flood of obituaries recalled her as soft-spoken, sweet, and small in stature. They said she was "timid and shy" but had "the courage of a lion." They were full of phrases like "radical humility" and "quiet fortitude.

  Susan Cain

  Sweet, Humility, Two

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.2, Broadway Books

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• If you’re listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday. I’d like to apologize straightaway for any inconvenience the end of the world may have caused you. The earthquakes, rebellions, riots,tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, and of course the giant snake who swallowed the sun—I’m afraid most of that was our fault. Carter and I decided we should at least explain how it happened.

  Rick Riordan

  Congratulations, Earthquakes, Snakes

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• What if the house catches fire?” “Roast marshmallows. And if it floods, you’ll go down with the ship. If there’s a tornado, I’ll meet both you and this house in Oz, after my shift. Got it?

  Rachel Vincent

  Fire, House, What If

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Reaper”, p.7, Harlequin

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• When certain parts of our bodies are touched, certain enzymes and chemicals that trigger sexual desire are released into our system. The more our bodies are stimulated, the more chemicals are released and the greater our sexual desire grows until it becomes a virtually unstoppable flood.

  Myles Munroe

  Desire, Enzymes, Body

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  We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.

  Marquis de Sade

  Sex, Sea, Wave

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• Through effort you will cross any raging flood, through energy you will pass any sorrow.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Effort, Sorrow

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• I feel sorry for the man who has never known the bracing thrill of taking a stand and sticking to it fearlessly. Moral courage has rewards that timidity can never imagine. Like a shot of adrenaline, it floods the spirit with vitality.

  Billy Graham

  Sorry, Men, Vitality

  "A Time for Moral Courage". Reader's Digest, July 1964.

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• And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what is your friend that your should seek with him hours to kill? Seek with him always hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter, and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Morning, Laughter, Fun

  Khalil Gibran, “Friendship IXX”

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• Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow.

  Mark Helprin

  Death, Prayer, Pain

  Mark Helprin (1991). “A Soldier of the Great War”, Harcourt

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• The doctrine of pre-existence pours a wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterious problem of man's origin. It shows that man, as a spirit, was begotten and born of heavenly parents and reared to maturity in the eternal mansions of the Father, prior to coming upon the earth in a temporal body to undergo an experience in mortality.

  Heber J. Grant

  Father, Men, Maturity

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• The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and when I am very old, they will still be near . . . Memories of mother drying my tears, reading aloud, cutting cookies and singing as she did, listening to prayers I said as I knelt with my forehead pressed against her knee, tucking me in bed and turning down the light. They have carried me through the years and given my life such a firm foundation that it does not rock beneath flood or tempest.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mom, Mother, Prayer

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• Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being.

  Aldous Huxley

  Passion, Feelings, Height

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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• I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors.

  Marc Chagall

  Color, Humans, Human Love

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• You can't flood the market with every TV show, every reality show, and dump your library into the market all at one time and not have some kind of game plan in terms of pricing.

  Bill Mechanic

  Reality, Tv Shows, Games

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.

  John Grisham

  Rain, Men, Talking

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• They always say to Californians that we don't have seasons. Of course, that is not true. We have fire, flood, mud and drought.

  Phyllis Diller

  Fire, Mud, Californians

  "Phyllis Diller's File Of 53,000 Jokes". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. March 11, 2017.

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• What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Blood, What If, Liberty

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1842). “The Masque of Anarchy: To which is Added, Queen Liberty; Song--to the Men of England”, p.18

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• Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know that God is good!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  God, Storm, Mazes

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.166, tredition

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• God is merely tuning the soul, as an instrument, in this life. And these joys of the Christian, are only the notes and chords that are sounded out in the preparation--preludes to the perfect harmony that shall flood the soul--forerunners of the perfected and rapturous joy that shall bless the soul, in that exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

  Herrick Johnson

  Christian, Perfect, Joy

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• In the story, which is only a few chapters long in Genesis, Noah never even speaks until after the flood - but when you have Russell Crowe, you're going to make him speak.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Long, Speak, Genesis

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Genesis 9 is where the animals went wild, and God gave them wildness. After the flood, that's when he made animals wild. Up until that time, everybody was vegetarian.

  Phil Robertson

  Animal, Vegetarian, Made

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