Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The wicked are great drinkers of water; As the flood proved once for all.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If I get a commission, it's like a flood of creative thought and energy. — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood. — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Breaking down all on my knees, baby take another chance, oh please? I'm a flood, I'm a train, I'm a wind. You're… — The Ready Set Copy Share Image
Snow-capped Snowdon has been an iconic Welsh image for centuries. It is shocking to think that in just 14 years, snow on… — Lembit Opik Copy Share Image
Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I had been eagerly waiting just such a disaster. Storms, wolves, snakebite, floods-these are the occasions to find out how your father… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
As you get more global warming, you should see an increase in the extremes of the hydrological cycle - droughts and floods… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome,… — Earl Blumenauer Copy Share Image
I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it… — Samantha Stosur Copy Share Image
Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
Let's be honest; it's rather easy to be busy. We all can think up a list of tasks that will overwhelm our… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 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
[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the… — Tom Wolfe 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
I had always imagined Rosa Parks as a stately woman with a bold temperament, someone who could easily stand up to a… — Susan Cain 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
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 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
When first you enter Wisdom's sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there. — Farid al-Din Attar Copy Share Image
Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To gain unshakable faith in Jesus Christ is to flood your life with brilliant light. — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
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