Deluge Quote by William Carey

“When the world was in darkness and wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it. But when the world became bright with…

— Walter M. Miller Jr

“Think of the rivers of blood, spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary…

— Carl Sagan

“The stream of Time, irresistible, ever moving, carries off and bears away all things that come to birth and plunges them into utter darkness,…

— Anna Comnena

“Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary…

— Carl Sagan

“They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked…

— Charles Dickens

“The story of how He created the world aroused their interests immediately, even though they received no answer to the question of why He…

— Halldór Laxness

“We may suppose that some of those that perished in the deluge had themselves assisted Noah, or were employed by him, in the building…

— Matthew Henry

“It had been supposed, until our time, that despotism was odious, under whatever form it appeared. But it is a discovery of modern days…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“But alas, my dear child, we are the slaves of custom, the dupes of prejudice, and dare not stem the torrent of the opposing…

— Fanny Burney

“It is now my intention to draw out from the story of Abraham the dialectical consequences inherent in it, expressing them in the form…

— Kierkegaard, Søren

“...and one day the rain would wash them away entirely, the sounds of the dead city and her memories of them, and then the…

— Missouri Williams

“A storm came chasing the sky away. And virgin sands Drank all the water of the evening woods, God's wind blew icicles into the…

— Arthur Rimbaud