Flood Quotes

474 Flood quotes by 388 unique authors

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea… — Francis Crick
Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact… — Paul Stamets
Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great… — Marcus Aurelius
Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance. — William Wordsworth
And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life… — William Wordsworth
The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched… — C.S. Lewis
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
I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black… — Arthur Ashe
What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Where'er ye sojourn, and whatever names Ye are or shall be called; fairies, or sylphs, Nymphs of the wood or mountain, flood or field: Live… — Hartley Coleridge
And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch for blood.Meanwhile, through… — Henry Timrod
Washington is a city of money. It's a flood of money. — Mark Shields
Juice cleansing has been all the rage for some time. And I used the word 'rage' advisedly; one must push a violent flood of liquidised… — Sloane Crosley
There's no such thing as a 100-year flood. — Andrew Cuomo
There's going to be a flood of opportunities right now but I don't think I could really talk about them. — Chris Daughtry
Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information… — Maureen Dowd
The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines,… — Mark Helprin
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material. — Alan Ladd
I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining. — Groucho Marx
If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back… — Michelangelo
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. — John Muir
Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but… — Andrew O'Hagan
High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival… — Camille Paglia
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life… — William Shakespeare

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