Flood Quotes - Page 10

• The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.

  Charles Churchill

  Woods, Command, Oaks

  Charles Churchill, Robert Southey (1854). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.90

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Lying, Ice

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• When our individual life force enters our fetal body, the moment in which we become truly human, it passes through the pineal and triggers the first primordial flood of DMT.
  Later, at birth, the pineal releases more DMT.
  As we die, the life-force leaves the body through the pineal gland, releasing another flood of this psychedelic spirit molecule.

  Rick Strassman

  Dmt, Molecules, Body

  44 Copy quote

• Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions, and thus escape the flood. For these few gold has been the asset of last resort.

  Antony C. Sutton

  Gold, Lasts, Reason

  Antony C. Sutton (1977). “The War on Gold”, Concord Books

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've attempted to flood the path with light where I could, and where I could not I've wanted at least to hold up a candle so that others coming this way might not stumble too painfully.

  Jim Beaver

  Light, Might, Way

  Jim Beaver (2009). “Life's That Way”, p.261, Penguin

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought.

  Phyllis Diller

  Fire, Mud, Californians

  12 Copy quote

• Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.

  Michael Jackson

  Song, Blood, Age

  Song: Planet Earth, 2009

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some affairs for mutual and general advantage. I do not view the process with any misgivings. I could not stop it if I wished. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands, and better days.

  Winston Churchill

  Views, Land, Two

  Churchill's "The Few" Speech, www.foxnews.com. August 20, 1940.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood.

  Madeline Miller

  Earthquakes, Mind, Wish

  Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.278, A&C Black

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.

  Gary Snyder

  Fire, Dormant, Seeds

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.14, Counterpoint Press

  83 Copy quote

  Show source

• A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more water vapor than cold, the atmosphere over the oceans is a shocking five percent wetter, loading the dice for devastating floods.

  Bill McKibben

  Summer, Ocean, Air

  "Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math" by Bill McKibben, www.rollingstone.com. July 19, 2012.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Ideas, Mind, Vision

  72 Copy quote

• Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Self, Mercy, States

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.205

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.

  Ralph Ellison

  Winter, Ice, Melting

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.271, Vintage

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by its best or its worst as you will, by its high-water mark of virtue or its low-water mark of vice. But falsehood begins when you measure the ebb of any other religion against the flood-tide of your own. There is a noble and a base side to every history.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Religious, Practice, Water

  Thomas Wentworth HIGGINSON (1872). “The Sympathy of Religions; an Address Delivered ... February 6, 1870”, p.18

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Heaven, Earth

  Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.244, Harvard University Press

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Rather than working to the exclusion of everything else in order to flood our bank accounts in the hope that we can eventually buy back what we have missed along the way, we need to live life fully now with a sense of its fragility.

  Randy Komisar

  Live Life, Order, Needs

  Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback (2001). “The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living”, p.13, Harvard Business Press

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Reason, Poor Richard, Orators

  Poor Richard's Almanack, Oct. 1735

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hedge funds are investment pools that are relatively unconstrained in what they do. They are relatively unregulated (for now), charge very high fees, will not necessarily give you your money back when you want it, and will generally not tell you what they do. They are supposed to make money all the time, and when they fail at this, their investors redeem and go to someone else who has recently been making money. Every three or four years they deliver a one-in-a-hundred year flood. They are generally run for rich people in Geneva, Switzerland, by rich people in Greenwich, Connecticut.

  Cliff Asness

  Running, Years, People

  14 Copy quote

• What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role of carbohydrates in overweight, ever since the publication in 1864 of William Banting's famous "Letter on Corpulence"? Could it be related, in part, to the vast financial endowments poured into the various departments of nutritional education by the manufacturers of our refined carbohydrate foodstuff?

  Robert Atkins

  Eye, Dark, Age

  Robert C. Atkins (1972). “Dr. Atkins' diet revolution; the high calorie way to stay thin forever”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

  Herman Melville

  Sea, Two, World

  Herman Melville (2012). “Moby Dick in Plain and Simple English (Includes Study Guide, Complete Unabridged Book, Historical Context, and Character Index)(”, p.561, BookCaps Study Guides

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Civilization, Black

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.362

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. They were concerned to salvage their own lives, but in the process they also salvaged the souls of the people who have brought the atomic bomb.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  People, Soul, Aftermath

  4 Copy quote

• Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,
  Pale in her anger washes all the air,
  That rheumatic diseases do abound;
  And through this distemperature we see
  The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
  Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Science, Moon

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 103

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life.

  John Muir

  Fire, Ice, Water

  John Muir (2015). “STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California”, p.22, e-artnow

  7 Copy quote

  Show source