An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve Act as it stands seems to me to open the way to a vast inflation of the currency. I… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
“I noticed that volcanoes, earthquakes and floods, though are not good events, they are better than the silence of good people when… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The flood of photos sweeps away the dams of memory. Never before has a period known so little about itself. In the… — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
I suppose that Italy must always lie like some lovely sunken island at the bottom of all passionate dreams, from which at… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
The '80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
South America had been an island continent, far bigger and far more diverse than Australia, for tens of millions of years before… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The panes streamed with rain, and the short street he looked down into lay wet and empty, as if swept clear suddenly… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Then I place the blade next to the skine on my palm. A tingle arced across my scalp. The flood tipped up… — Patricia McCormick Copy Share Image
Ah, drink again This river that is the taker-away of pain, And the giver-back of beauty! In these cool waves What can… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
Bopha, Sandy, floods in Pakistan, droughts in China… How many reports from the likes of the World Bank, NASA and the International… — Steven Guilbeault Copy Share Image
It's natural to be skeptical of a story like Noah. However, the greatest miracle in the Bible is not Noah and the… — Frank Turek Copy Share Image
In March [1972] the unity of Pakistan depended on the suppression of the secessionists. But to carry it out with such brutality… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The inflated imitations of gold and silver, which after the rapture are thrown into the fire, all is exhausted and dissipated by… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
Come when the rains Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice, While the slant sun of February pours Into… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Whatever I decide will not work. It's what people want that will work. So no one decided whether you become a vegetarian… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The facts of paleontology seem to support creation and the flood rather than evolution. For instance, all the major groups of invertebrates… — Enoch Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of my top priorities as the Representative for Orange County is to ensure our coastline remains protected, and our beaches and… — Michelle Steel Copy Share Image
Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The clearest evidence that we are living beyond environmental means is the threat of dangerous climate change. The scale of this threat,… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Water is the formless potential out of which creation emerged. It is the ocean of unconsciousness enveloping the islands of consciousness. Water… — Scott Sanders Copy Share Image
There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand.… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
We have become a force of nature Not long ago, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought, forest fires, even earthquakes and volcanic explosions were… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
It's a relief to hear the rain. It's the sound of billions of drops, all equal, all equally committed to falling, like… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The reason I am so negative about the Federal Reserve's policies is that they only target core inflation and argue that they… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
You...you lost your faith?" "No...just my convictions. I still very much believe in God- just not a god who condones human tithing."… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Just as that little opening in the Iron Curtain that Hungary created caused a flood of people out, and ultimately the beginning… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
My prayer is that the good news of Jesus, the crucified and risen Messiah, would flood Jewish communities around the world, that… — John Piper Copy Share Image
He only is great at heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs… — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock Copy Share Image