Deluge Quotes

35 quotes by 33 authors

Coffee as drunk in England, debilitates the stomach, and produces a slight nausea ... it is usually made from bad Coffee, served out tepid and… — William Kitchiner
Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me… — Joshua Slocum
There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it is sad but… — Abraham Pais
Prayer and contemplation are both exercises in concentration. The normal deluge of conscious thought is restricted and the mind is brought to one conscious area… — Henepola Gunaratana
However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over a huge sequence… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
The question and the cry 'Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance 'I… — Rabindranath Tagore
This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it breaks, and overshadows… — Charles Spurgeon
To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a… — George Saintsbury
Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and… — Albert Einstein
DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world. — Ambrose Bierce
You can hardly convince a man of error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow.… — Henry David Thoreau
By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
In the Great Deluge in the days of Noah, nearly all mankind perished, eight persons alone being saved in the Ark. In our days a… — Alphonsus Liguori
At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist,… — Alexander Pope
Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his… — Bayard Taylor
In the end, they traded their tired wings for the resignation that living brings. And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow for the glitter and… — Jackson Browne
A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood,… — Charles Caleb Colton
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. — Horace Mann
When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welking with his big-swoln… — William Shakespeare

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