You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within… — John Muir Copy Share Image
There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
We know that the year 2011 is the 7000th year from the flood. We also know that God will destroy this world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired,… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Be surprised at nothing. Let peace and stillness flood through you and envelop you completely in its cloak. Put on the whole… — Eileen Caddy Copy Share Image
Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We were fortunate at that time we were working with Virgin, and with Flood, probably more well-known as Brian Eno's engineer now… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
The direct risks from climate change are obvious: as changing weather patterns cause extremes of flood and drought, hurricanes and typhoons. These… — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds… — Russel Honore Copy Share Image
“The story of how He created the world aroused their interests immediately, even though they received no answer to the question of… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
We are facing a flood tide of factors into our daily lives and the lives of our children that conspire against weight… — David Katz Copy Share Image
Hedge funds are investment pools that are relatively unconstrained in what they do. They are relatively unregulated (for now), charge very high… — Cliff Asness Copy Share Image
“They looked so familiar that for a moment Claude feared he had doubled back to Mrs. Merritt's city, until a sudden wave… — Douglas Woolf Copy Share Image
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Every chance at destabilizing [Bashar] Assad... the bombing campaign causes a flood of refugees into Jordan, there's already half a million in… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing! — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“God will never allow a flood in your life without providing you a boat within which the storm itself is repelled, the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“But hope rises like water trapped by a dam, higher and higher, in increments that mean nothing until you face the flood.” — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“Do not, the angel told her, 'ask to see him. His love is a flood. His glory is a fire. You could… — Adam Foulds Copy Share Image
Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“forget the ink, the milk, the blood - all was washed clean with the flood we rose up from the falling waters… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
“Have you ever seen a storm roll in? That's the way she loved. A drop or two to start. Then the flood.” — Andrea Michelle Copy Share Image
At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul. At flood… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
You can't flood the market with every TV show, every reality show, and dump your library into the market all at one… — Bill Mechanic Copy Share Image
Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away. — William Blake Copy Share Image
“There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune...” ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar” — Lisa M. Collins Copy Share Image
“That’s how he’d thought of most people— appearing in your life like foundlings on the doorstep, only to be swept away later… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image