Torrents Quotes
22 quotes by 21 authors
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Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the…
— Joseph Addison
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My child,you are broken. Unless you know that you are broken yourself,it will be severely laborious to love the broken people around you. You will…
— Bo Sanchez
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I often joke with my audiences that I make most of my income on a ski pole. People smile but they get my point. You…
— Robin Sharma
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Revolution does not mean torrents of blood, the taking of the Winter Palace, and so on. Revolution means a radical transformation of society's institutions. In…
— Cornelius Castoriadis
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A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull…
— Haile Selassie
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It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his…
— James Joyce
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How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
— Andre Breton
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Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger. A man and a woman fall in love, as they say; each is wonderful in the…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Sorrow is God's plowshare that turns up and subsoils the depths of the soul, that it may yield richer harvests. If we had never fallen,…
— Lettie Cowman
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One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land…
— Ramakrishna
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The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents…
— Walter Savage Landor
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Yes, great God, these torrents of tears which flow down from my eyes announce thy divine presence in my soul. This heart hitherto so dry,…
— Jean Baptiste Massillon
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Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in,…
— Honore de Balzac
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Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by proscribing all difference…
— James Madison
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Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap…
— Jerry Saltz
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Without shedding of blood there is no anything… Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by self-sacrifice. Our race has marked every step…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of…
— Honore de Balzac
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Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the…
— Herman Melville
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Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But…
— John Ashbery
Who Wrote These Torrents Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 22 Torrents Quotes as follows: