Flood Quotes - Page 15

• FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.

  Bill Dedman

  Loss, Decision, Doe

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• Fatherhood: How God blesses you out of your selfishness and floods your soul with love, all while reminding you how little you know.

  Mark Hart

  Soul, Fatherhood, Selfishness

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• That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.

  Alan Lightman

  Determination, Achievement, Age

  "Reunion". Book by Alan Lightman, www.nytimes.com. 2003.

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• I was a dweller amid shadows grim: Till FREEDOM touched my yearning eyes, and lo! Life in a shining circle, rounding rose, As heaven on heaven goes up the jewell'd night. New floods of passionate life swirl'd at my heart, Like Ocean-surges rolling round the world: And FREEDOM was my glittering Bride.

  Gerald Massey

  Freedom, Ocean, Heart

  Gerald MASSEY (Poet.) (1854). “Poems and ballads ... Containing the Ballad of babe Christabel ... Revised and corrected by the author”, p.26

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• Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth a mighty flood.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Jesus, Prayer, Fire

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.22, 1895.

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• As for the flood carving Grand Canyon, why don't they explain to us why the top of the Canyon is 4,000ft higher than where the river (Colorado River) enters the canyon? Why don't they explain to us how rivers miraculously flowed up-hill for millions of years to finally cut the groove deep enough so they could flow downhill?

  Kent Hovind

  Cutting, Colorado River, Years

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• Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such that the immese strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears, along with which one's steps either rush or involuntarily lag, alternately. There is the feeling that one is completely out of hand, with the very distinct consciousness of an endless number of fine thrills and quiverings to the very toes... Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspiration, Hands, Numbers

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• When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows. You laugh hard every day.

  Amy Poehler

  Children, Heart, Oxygen

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.235, Pan Macmillan

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• What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

  George Eliot

  Art, Children, Ocean

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.35, Xist Publishing

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• To gain unshakable faith in Jesus Christ is to flood your life with brilliant light.

  Richard G. Scott

  Jesus, Light, Gains

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• Everything that we see in our daily lives is more or less distorted by acquired habits and this is perhaps more evident in an age like ours when cinema posters and magazines present us every day with a flood of ready-made images which are to the eye what prejudices are to the mind. The effort to see things without distortion demands a kind of courage; and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he were seeing it for the first time.

  Henri Matisse

  Eye, Artist, Effort

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.218, Univ of California Press

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• We learn from every natural disaster. Whether it's a fire or a flood, we learn something from it so we can respond to the next one better.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Fire, Next, Natural

  "Malcolm Turnbull meets bushfire volunteers as Esperance community comes to terms with its loss". Interview with Lucy Martin, www.abc.net.au. December 9, 2015.

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• I actually have OCD really bad, and it's getting a bit worse at the moment. I have to check taps... before I leave the house, to make sure I've checked everything in case it floods.

  Sam Smith

  House, Moments, Ocd

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• And light has no weight, / Yet one is lifted on its flood, /Swept high, /Running up white-golden light-shafts, /As if one were as weightless as light itself - /All gold and white and light.

  Lawren Harris

  Running, Light, White

  Lawren Harris, Gregory Betts (2007). “In the Ward: His Urban Poetry and Paintings”, p.51, Exile Editions, Ltd.

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• Flood your imagination with vision... if your deepest needs, values and internal beliefs agree with your direction, then you're more likely to succeed.

  Robert G. Allen

  Success, Imagination, Vision

  Robert G. Allen (2004). “Nothing Down for the 2000s: Dynamic New Wealth Strategies in Real Estate”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness. If moonlight does not flood the empty night sky and reflect in every drop of water, on every blade of grass, then you are only looking at your own empty dream.

  Adyashanti

  Dream, Night, Sky

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• Working with existing pictures, like I do, you constantly think about the flood of images we are subjected to and you want to figure out how you can make sense of it.

  Thomas Demand

  Thinking, Want, Figures

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• The flood of photos sweeps away the dams of memory. Never before has a period known so little about itself. In the hands of the ruling society, the invention of illustrated magazines is one of the most powerful means of organizing a strike against understanding... The 'image-idea' drives away the idea.

  Siegfried Kracauer

  Memories, Powerful, Mean

  Siegfried Kracauer, Thomas Y. Levin (1995). “The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• God is not justice. Justice is in his nature, but love is predominant. People attach such importance to actions and their results. They do not know that above action and result is a law which can consume the fire of hell, which can dominate even if the whole world were being drowned in the flood of destruction; they do not know that the power of love is greater than any other.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Love Is, Fire, Law

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• So confident am I that the number of deaths from violent storms will continue to decline that I challenge Mr. McKibben - or Al Gore, Paul Krugman, or any other climate-change doomsayer - to put his wealth where his words are. I'll bet $10,000 that the average annual number of Americans killed by tornadoes, floods and hurricanes will fall over the next 20 years. Specifically, I'll bet that the average annual number of Americans killed by these violent weather events from 2011 through 2030 will be lower than it was from 1991 through 2010.

  Donald J. Boudreaux

  Fall, Average, Years

  "More Weather Deaths? Wanna Bet?". www.wsj.com. May 28, 2011.

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• My house got flooded in Los Angeles and completely ruined it. People asked how did your house flood on the hills in LA? It was a plumbing problem that the landlord didn't fix, so everything got ruined there. It's one of those things where you take the opportunity and run with it. My producers are here and we're working on the new album here, and I was here all of the time so it made sense to spend some time here, so we'll just see what happens. It's definitely very different.

  DJ Rap

  Running, Opportunity, People

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• There is something intrinsically wrong about letters. For one thing they are not instantaneous. ... Nor is this the only trouble about letters. They do not arrive often enough. A letter which has been passionately awaited should be immediately supplemented by another one, to counteract the feeling of flatness that comes upon us when the agonizing delights of anticipation have been replaced by the colder flood of fulfilment.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Feelings, Delight, Agonizing

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• Safety is in Heaven. Put your values there only; put your heart there. No tears are there to flood your heart, no sorrows there to break it, no losses there to grieve and embitter.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Heart, Loss, Grieving

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1921). “Heaven: A Place--a City--a Home”

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• I know you are in grief and heaviness; and if it were not so, you might be afraid, because then your way would not be so like the way that our Lord saith leadeth to the New Jerusalem. Sure I am, if you knew what were before you, or if you saw some glances of it, you would, with gladness, swim through the present floods of sorrow, spreading forth your arms out of desire to be at land.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Grief, Land, Swim

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• November’s days are thirty: November’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are the paths.... Few care for the mixture of earth and water, Twig, leaf, flint, thorn, Straw, feather, all that men scorn, Pounded up and sodden by flood, Condemned as mud.

  Edward Thomas

  Nature, Dirty, Men

  Edward Thomas (2012). “Poems of Edward Thomas”, p.28, Other Press, LLC

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