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
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
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
Warm air holds more water vapor than cold, and so the atmosphere is about 4% wetter than it was 40 years ago.… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“During intellectual droughts one shower of good ideas can cause a flash-flood to wash away the roads your habits travel.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
State ownership of flood control efforts will not completely eliminate the problem but can substantially reduce it. — George P. Bush Copy Share Image
To stop thought, you have to go above it. We are collecting energy. When it is freed, it is like a flood… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your mind has a flood of questions. There is but one teacher Who can answer them. Who is that teacher? Your silence-loving… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service… — Gary Miller Copy Share Image
In New York, FEMA granted the Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club's request to be remapped from the high-risk flood zone in August… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch… — Henry Timrod Copy Share Image
Inevitably, the flood of literary pornography loosed on us is dulling our reactions of surprise or shock. Its writers are forced to… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
The supernatural is being swept out of the universe in the flood of new knowledge of what is natural. It will soon… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
While we've doubled renewable energy, it was only a tiny portion of the energy portfolio to start with. But what we did… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
When Spring unlocks the flowers To paint the laughing soil; When summer's balmy breezes Refresh the mower's toil; When winter holds in… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I am a morning person and start work, whether composing, rehearsing, preparing syllabi/tests, or proofing an article or manuscript, early in the… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, 'More light.' Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights… — Diane Frolov Copy Share Image
Singer Cilla Black's introduction to homophobic bullying occurred during a visit from Billy, a dear childhood friend. Sharing a room with Ms… — Cilla Black Copy Share Image
Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“It rained for four days and four nights, hard. Aniline wasn’t used to it. At first in the neighborhoods, ditches adjacent to… — Scott Archer Jones Copy Share Image
A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead… — Nicholas A. Basbanes 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
I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking… — Norman Rush 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
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
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
Crackdown had Dave Ball playing on it. Flood worked on our next album, and Adrian Sherwood worked with us on Code. — Stephen Mallinder 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
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
The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid,… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
Scientists say an 8.9 earthquake here could knock down buildings, flood coastal areas... and improve the roads. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. — Rachel Stevens Copy Share Image
![“While we've doubled renewable energy, it was only a tiny portion of the energy portfolio to start with. But what we did was totally take the lid off fossil fuel extractions in every way imaginable. On the day following [Barack] Obama's trip to the Louisiana floods, you know, we had, I think…” quote by Jill Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cb/jill-stein-660_acres_while-we-ve-doubled-renewable-energy-it_811512.jpg)
