Damming Quotes

6 quotes by 6 authors

• The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth [Symphony of Beethoven] is one of the most horrifying moments in music, as the… — Susan McClary
• To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the… — David Quammen
• Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream. — Evelyn Waugh
• The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a… — Isaac Asimov
• It is true that water will flow indifferently to east and west, but will it flow equally well up and down? Human nature is disposed… — Mencius
• The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period… — Charles Kennedy

Who Wrote These Damming Quotes

6 authors contributed a total of 6 Damming Quotes as follows:

• 1 Damming Quote by Charles Kennedy
• 1 Damming Quote by Susan McClary
• 1 Damming Quote by David Quammen
• 1 Damming Quote by Evelyn Waugh
• 1 Damming Quote by Isaac Asimov
• 1 Damming Quote by Mencius