Flood Quotes - Page 3

• What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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• The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

  Raymond Chandler

  Book, Reading, Design

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• Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

  Simone Weil

  Powerful, Light, Years

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.33, Routledge

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• Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

  William Butler Yeats

  Song, Heart, Land

  The Land of Heart's Desire (1894) p. 36

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• The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

  Ben Bradlee

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

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• The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.

  Mark Helprin

  Rainy Day, Finding Yourself, Enemy

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• I believe the chance of any event causing Berkshire to experience financial problems is essentially zero. We will always be prepared for the thousand-year flood; in fact, if it occurswe will be selling life jackets to the unprepared.

  Warren Buffett

  Zero, Believe, Years

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• I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

  A. R. Ammons

  Grateful, Mean, Textbooks

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

  Ryan Tedder

  Song, Eight, Years

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• Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Latin, Earthquakes, Numbers

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• There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Eye, Hands

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• You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

  Sophocles

  Winter, Yield, Rivers

  Haemon speaking. Antigone,712-14 (translated by H Lloyd- Jones,1994).

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• As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".

  John Muir

  Nature, Heart, Garden

  John Muir (1999). “To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875”

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• The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

  Robert Peel

  Government, Public Opinion, Reform

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• My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

  Aeschylus

  Cheer, Believe, Fate

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• The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.

  Karl Pearson

  Math, May, Results

  Karl Pearson (1900). “The grammar of science”, p.505, Рипол Классик

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• When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Fall, Democracy, Way

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• We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

  Charles Rangel

  New Orleans, Giving, Tragedy

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• All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Overcoming, Want

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “The portable Nietzsche: selected and translated, with an introd., pref. and notes”, Viking Pr

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• L.A. burns, and so many other cities smolder, waiting for the hose that will flood gasoline over the coals, and we listen to politicians who fuel our hate and our narrow views and tell us it's simply a matter of getting back to basics while they sit in their beachfront properties and listen to the surf so they won't have to hear the screams of the drowning.

  Dennis Lehane

  Hate, Views, Cities

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• The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night.

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Moon, Night

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• The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The Antarctic icecap would melt and flood all low-lying land; or the oceans would freeze and the whole world would be locked in eternal winter. Just a nudge in either direction would be enough.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Lying, Ocean, Moving

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• By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Bridges, America, Rude

  "Concord Hymn" l. 1 (1837)

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• Juice cleansing has been all the rage for some time. And I used the word 'rage' advisedly; one must push a violent flood of liquidised vegetables and fruit through one's system for at least three days in order to perform a 'cleanse.'

  Sloane Crosley

  Order, Vegetables, Three

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• A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Years, Doe, Next

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