Quotes about Flood

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. Votes: 5

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. Votes: 4

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. Votes: 4

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. Votes: 4

The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate. Votes: 4

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted. Votes: 4

The earth will end only when God declares it's time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood. Votes: 4

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 and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. Votes: 4

I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy. Votes: 4

You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood. Votes: 4

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair. Votes: 4

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 into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. Votes: 4

Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart! Votes: 3

Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material. Votes: 3

Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero. Votes: 3

Floods are 'acts of God,' but flood losses are largely acts of man. Votes: 3

Flood your mind continually with pictures of the health, happiness, and prosperity that you desire. Votes: 3

It is right precious to behold The first long surf of climbing light Flood all the thirsty east with gold. Votes: 3

Crackdown had Dave Ball playing on it. Flood worked on our next album, and Adrian Sherwood worked with us on Code. Votes: 3

I tried cutting myself to express my heartbreak over Tommy (Lord Flood) rejecting me, but OMFG it hurts like flaming fuck. Votes: 3

Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain. Votes: 3

Flood your imagination with vision... if your deepest needs, values and internal beliefs agree with your direction, then you're more likely to succeed. Votes: 3

Flood your life with ideas from many sources. Creativity needs to be exercised like a muscle. If you don't use it, you'll lose it! Votes: 3

As a biblical inerrantist, I believe that what the Bible teaches is true and bow to the text, including its teaching about the Flood and its universality. Votes: 3

The Creation Museum uses fossils to present evidence that there was a global catastrophe, Noah's Flood, that killed and preserved the remains of creatures all over the earth. Votes: 3

Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion. Votes: 3

Fhairshon had a son, Who married Noah's daughter, And nearly spoiled to Flood, By trinking up ta water: Which he would have done, I at least believe it, Had the mixture peen Only half Glenlivet. Votes: 3

The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine? Votes: 3

The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving the owners as much as 97 percent on the premiums they pay into the financially strained National Flood Insurance Program. Votes: 3

Many researchers do feel that humankind may have to face another Great Cleansing, such as the Great Flood of world mythology. Again, numerous UFO contactees and abductees feel that it is their mission to alert their fellow humans that some kind of apocalypse will soon be visited upon Earth. Votes: 3

I abjure you,” Alcide said. Colonel Flood winced, and young Sid, Amanda, and Culpepper looked both astonished and impressed, as if this were a ceremony they'd never thought to witness. “I see you no longer. I hunt with you no longer. I share flesh with you no longer. Votes: 3

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood. Votes: 2

Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire. Votes: 2

I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision. Votes: 2

There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Votes: 2

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. Votes: 2

Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time. Votes: 2

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry. Votes: 2

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood! Votes: 2

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe. Votes: 2

Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe. Votes: 2

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action. Votes: 2

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again. Votes: 2

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again. Votes: 2

The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium. Votes: 2

A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability. Votes: 2

Twice I had been stopped by these jobs, and I thought the role on Dark Shadows would go on for about three or four weeks. And then, the phenomenon began, the role caught on, the mail started to flood in. Votes: 2

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood? Votes: 2

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood? Votes: 2

My prayer is that the good news of Jesus, the crucified and risen Messiah, would flood Jewish communities around the world, that the veil would be lifted, and that we would see a massive turning of Israel to the Lord Jesus. Votes: 2

It's a relief to hear the rain. It's the sound of billions of drops, all equal, all equally committed to falling, like a sudden outbreak of democracy. Water, when it hits the ground, instantly becomes a puddle or rivulet or flood. Votes: 2

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 jeopardizing meaning. Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell. Votes: 2

Everyone who is critical of Israeli policy is deluged by crazed messages intended to flood their email system or, more insidiously, passwords are accessed and messages sent out under their name! I'm sure it's illegal. It's also an effort to undermine free speech. Votes: 2

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. Votes: 2

I flood the Internet with what I think is quality content. That's why I did things like giving out a song every 100,000 Twitter followers because I am just looking for ways to get my fans to hear all this music without over saturating things. Votes: 2

In New York, FEMA granted the Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club's request to be remapped from the high-risk flood zone in August 2012 - just two months before the club was damaged and its outbuildings destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, which stacked up yachts at its docks like pick-up sticks. Votes: 2

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 is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. Votes: 2

Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations. Votes: 2

However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood. Votes: 1

There's no such thing as a 100-year flood. Votes: 0

Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill. Votes: 0

The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood. Votes: 0

No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood. Votes: 0

Cautious of the flood so I always lay the right pipe. Votes: 0

Washington is a city of money. It's a flood of money. Votes: 0

M'Illumino D'Immenso - I flood myself with the light of the immense. Votes: 0

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world. Votes: 0

The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments. Votes: 0

When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff. Votes: 0

Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe. Votes: 0

The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm. Votes: 0

If you run from a leaking roof you'll end up with a flood. Votes: 0

Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality. Votes: 0

To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood. Votes: 0

Be in love with your heart-life. There, only there, Is the flood of happiness. Votes: 0

The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely. Votes: 0

The tide of my love Has risen so high let me flood over You. Votes: 0

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks. Votes: 0

My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood. Votes: 0

Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason. Votes: 0

If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away. Votes: 0

If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes. Votes: 0

Through effort you will cross any raging flood, through energy you will pass any sorrow. Votes: 0

To gain unshakable faith in Jesus Christ is to flood your life with brilliant light. Votes: 0

The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck. Votes: 0

Does he expect the flood to just move out of his way if he asks nicely~? Votes: 0

Scientists say an 8.9 earthquake here could knock down buildings, flood coastal areas... and improve the roads. Votes: 0

The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. Votes: 0

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation. Votes: 0

Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome. Votes: 0

I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote. Votes: 0

Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance. Votes: 0

Letting go of the past, is like opening the flood gates of healing to be set free. Votes: 0

You have to know, when there is a fire in the kitchen, when to flood that fire. Votes: 0

Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood. Votes: 0

The hurricane flooded me out of a lot of memorabilia, but it can't flood out the memories. Votes: 0

Grew up in Stapleton House village, where blood flood the waters in the streets like oil spillage Votes: 0

Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery. Votes: 0

God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction. Votes: 0

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. Votes: 0

... The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance ... Votes: 0

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force. Votes: 0

Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart. Votes: 0

Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers. Votes: 0

O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sister's flood of tears. Votes: 0

The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down. Votes: 0

I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs. Votes: 0

Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away. Votes: 0

A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and anger. Sadness and pity. But most surprising of all, hope. Votes: 0

While the Bibles account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation. Votes: 0

We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought. Votes: 0

There was a typewriter buried alive in that horse, the one I road to get out of the flood. Votes: 0

Noah had 120 years to warn humanity of the flood. We have only 4-5 years until global warming is irreversible Votes: 0

FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones. Votes: 0

Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again. Votes: 0

["2012"] it was really more about the subject matter, and to do a modern retelling of Noah's Ark, a flood story. Votes: 0

Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village. Votes: 0

There's going to be a flood of opportunities right now but I don't think I could really talk about them. Votes: 0

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing. Votes: 0

Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song. Votes: 0

If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city. Votes: 0

You must thrive to flood the nose and mouth of those who hate you and can't wait to see you fail. Votes: 0

O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing! Votes: 0

But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded. Votes: 0

God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content. Votes: 0

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born. Votes: 0

Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years. Votes: 0

Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil. Votes: 0

Your mind has a flood of questions.There is but one teacherWho can answer them.Who is that teacher?Your silence-loving heart. Votes: 0

I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light. Votes: 0

Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. Votes: 0

Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs. Votes: 0

What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee. Votes: 0

While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it. Votes: 0

You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor. Votes: 0

I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, "It's OK to be sad." I've been trained to love my darkness. Votes: 0

If we follow the example of Jesus Christ and become true peacemakers, that flood of love will cover the earth as with a blanket. Votes: 0

By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same! Votes: 0

When it's all said and done, you may go through the fire, through the flood, through the famine, but you'll come out standing strong. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In the heart and in the soul, evil takes its wicked toll. When moonlight shines like flowing blood, over the earth, the Daimons will flood Votes: 0

Like a soldier back from battle you fill my vision. You're a flood, a baptism I'd forgotten, and the force of you leaves me breathless. Votes: 0

We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin the earth again. Votes: 0

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body. Votes: 0

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body." Votes: 0

A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer. Votes: 0

O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood! Votes: 0

A remarkable thing about me is that the time that elapses between a sad thought and a flood of tears is three or four seconds. Votes: 0

My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out. Votes: 0

My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood. Votes: 0

It is time for pastors, priests and all true believers to come out of the closet and stand for truth against the flood of evil. Votes: 0

Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood. Votes: 0

If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth. Votes: 0

If your God is going to drown the world; if your God is going to bring a flood, then why don't you pick a different God? Votes: 0

Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks. Votes: 0

You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance Votes: 0

All day long and all night through, One thing only must I do: Quench my pride and cool my blood, Lest I perish in the flood. Votes: 0

If you look up into His face and say, "Yes, Lord, whatever it costs," at that moment He'll flood your Life with His presence and power. Votes: 0

My chains are gone I've been set free My God, my Savior has ransomed me And like a flood His mercy reigns Unending love, amazing grace! Votes: 0

Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know that God is good! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Random thought fills the streambed, cascading with care and spilling over the flood plain until bifurcation forces it to arc and fork into a single, determined stream. Votes: 0

i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking Votes: 0

I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking seaweed out of my hair. Votes: 0

Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death. Votes: 0

Genesis 9 is where the animals went wild, and God gave them wildness. After the flood, that's when he made animals wild. Up until that time, everybody was vegetarian. Votes: 0

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. Votes: 0

You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all. Votes: 0

Peace does not mean the absence of war, peace means the presence of harmony, love, satisfaction and oneness. Peace means a flood of love in the world family. Votes: 0

The flood of time is rolling on; We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone To glide in peace down death's mysterious stream. Have ye done well? Votes: 0

The question and the cry 'Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance 'I am!' Votes: 0

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 sea of being. Votes: 0

PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals. Votes: 0

At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun. Votes: 0

I'm here at The Container Store looking for something large enough to hold all my love for her. It's a flood, so I hope they sell Shipping Container Ships. Votes: 0

It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Votes: 0

Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace. Votes: 0

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, or in a flood. Votes: 0

But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best. Votes: 0

White and scrubbed, antique brass fixtures and a skylight letting in a flood of sunshine. Wow. You could get a tan standing around in the shower, for Christ's sake. Votes: 0

There in the windy flood of morning Longing lifted its weight from me, Lost as a sob in the midst of cheering, Swept as a sea-bird out to sea. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul. Votes: 0

Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor's grasp. (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature) Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation. Votes: 0

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun. Votes: 0

The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate. Votes: 0

Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.) Votes: 0

Don't be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don't be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again. Votes: 0

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again. Votes: 0

It is possible to take the story of Noah figuratively, although virtually every Near East ancient civilization has its own version of the flood story (including the amoral epic of Gilgamesh). Votes: 0

The Bush administration got a lot of things horribly wrong in its disaster response to the New Orleans flood, and it deserves almost all of the bitter recriminations hurled its way. Votes: 0

We believe that the farm should be building 'forgiveness' into the ecosystem. What does that mean? That a more forgiving ecosystem is one that can better handle drought, flood, disease, pestilence. Votes: 0

I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical a fact as the rise and fall of Rome. Votes: 0

When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions. Votes: 0

The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when God, cheating, tries to win free games. Votes: 0

My heart is crushed, my knees are weakened. My tears drench my pillow, my tears flood my bed every night. Do you know how much I miss you father of my children. Votes: 0

The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under. Votes: 0

Making an open stand against all the ungodliness and unrighteousness which overspreads our land as a flood is one of the noblest ways of confessing Christ in the face of His enemies. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams... Votes: 0

As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the need for intense excitement and a never-ending flood of heightened sensations. Votes: 0

We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us and soon it will rise on the world, on the outside world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them, animals perish--man writes the Constitution of the United States. Votes: 0

In 1975, the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood killed a hundred and seventy-one thousand people, but the event is rarely discussed, and the names of the victims are largely unrecorded today. Votes: 0

Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster. Votes: 0

To break free from this vexatious and awful never-ending cycle, this flood of outrageous thoughts, and to long for nothing more than simply to sleep--how clean, how pure, the mere thought of it is exhilarating. Votes: 0

The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism. Votes: 0

God, what a world, if men in street and mart felt that same kinship of the human heart which makes them, in the face of fire and flood, rise to the meaning of true brotherhood. Votes: 0

No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed. Votes: 0

Warm air holds more water vapor than cold, and so the atmosphere is about 4% wetter than it was 40 years ago. This loads the dice for flood and drought, and we're seeing both in stunning abundance. Votes: 0

Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not. Votes: 0

The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium. Votes: 0

You can't flood the market with every TV show, every reality show, and dump your library into the market all at one time and not have some kind of game plan in terms of pricing. Votes: 0

To stop thought, you have to go above it. We are collecting energy. When it is freed, it is like a flood and the water will rise and we are in altered states of attention. Votes: 0

Here's my philosophy in life: If there's a fire, you put it out. If there's a flood, you fill sandbags and you build a dike. You roll up your sleeves and you get to work. Votes: 0

Sea-foam And coral! Oh, I'll Climb the great pasture rocks And dream me mermaid in the sun's Gold flood. Votes: -1