“Floods are an act of God; flood damages result from the acts of men.” — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
“The flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
You will one day rise To flood the banks of the chosen. This is the art of ruin. — Lamb Of God Copy Share Image
No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
A remarkable thing about me is that the time that elapses between a sad thought and a flood of tears is three… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin… — James Inhofe Copy Share Image
Noah had 120 years to warn humanity of the flood. We have only 4-5 years until global warming is irreversible — Yosef Abramowitz Copy Share Image
“Property, marriage, the law; as the bed to the river, so rule and convention to the instinct; and woe to him who… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Him who trembles before the flame and the flood, And the winds that blow through the starry ways, Let the starry winds… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
When certain parts of our bodies are touched, certain enzymes and chemicals that trigger sexual desire are released into our system. The… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood Let… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The man who loves God with a true heart, and prizes him above all things, sometimes sheds floods of tears at prayer,… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Africa can stun you in an instant. It can throw floods and drought and disease at you, sometimes all at the same… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers, clients, and creative partners... Love leads… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. We are always in such a frantic hurry. In… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The government also has to get the public rules right. That means putting a price on carbon, so the cleaner forms of… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood. — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
They always say to Californians that we don't have seasons. Of course, that is not true. We have fire, flood, mud and… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“There seems to be the utmost danger, that the younger generation will be carried away with Arminianism as with a flood.” — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, "It's OK to be sad." I've been trained to love… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
