Dam Quotes

Advice doesn't help lovers!
They're not the kind of mountain stream
you can build a dam across. — Rumi

I would have kept you safe,' he said.
I closed my eyes, forcing the tears down my cheek to break against the dam of his fingers.
'I know. — Meagan Spooner

Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom. — William Arthur Ward

Fighting a losing battle is as good as tucking in stones in your pockets, jumping in a dam and hoping to float. — Nomthandazo Tsembeni

She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam. — Raymond Chandler

If you want to see Chris Jericho drink a beer with Stone Cold Steve Austin, give me a doo-a dee-dee-dam, dee-dee-doo. — Chris Jericho

blow your trump - blister your lungs! - Ahab will dam off your blood, as a miller shuts his watergate upon the stream! — Herman Melville

Really? My people do the same thing. — Rob Van Dam

Hatred is like a dam waiting to burst, and when it does, it is more devastating than what you had originally intended. — Angelina Fleck

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up. — John Naisbitt

Piper: it looks like we have hole. Percy: Yeah we've got a dam hole! (LOL-ing) Piper: What! Percy: Inside joke. (still LOL-ing) Piper: Whatever. — Rick Riordan

Of course i put the car in park, because when a beauitful girl starts undressing in you vehicle you put the dam car in park! — Brittainy C. Cherry

Is that a True Story, Papa said. Well I won't say it's a Fact Story, Calley said, but Yes Sir I will say it is for god dam sure a True Story. — Bill Wittliff

Naomi knew she should pray... Instead, she put her face in her hands and wept with all the force of a bursting dam. — Heather Blanton

And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself. — Annie Proulx

The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made a dam. — Thomas Hood

Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself
Upon thy wicked dam — William Shakespeare

I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good! — Denis Leary

Frankly, I'm guessing that before getting to my house today, Shoshanna had thought the Hoover Dam was some kind of vacuum cleaner attachment. — Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

Let us find the dam snack bar before it's too late said Zoe. — Rick Riordan

Don't go getting offended my friend, I have much worse things to say to you.-Ad'Dam, Journey from Atremes — Riley Amos Westbrook

God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop. — Meister Eckhart

The dam of tears broke again and I cried softly, grateful for the love I didn't deserve because the gift of me didn't seem to be enough. — Denise Grover Swank

All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly. — Edward Abbey

I need to use the Dam Bathroom, I need to use the Dam Snack bar, I want a Dam Tee-Shirt. — Rick Riordan

My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts. — Edna O'Brien

Everyday is a holiday when you're RVD — Rob Van Dam

What's she like?"
It was a question to breach a dam wall. — Jonathan Renshaw

At one level it's clear that the dam has broken. There's an inevitable move to use the Internet as a distribution medium and that's not going to stop. — Paul Otellini

You know, some people take peace of mind and confuse it with lack of passion. — Rob Van Dam

Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of mine — Charles Hard Townes

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land. — Billy Sunday

If that isn't a declaration of love, I don't know what is. And the words tumble out of me - a dam breached. — E.L. James

Where's the dam water fountain I'm thirsty? — Rick Riordan

Can our actions change our destiny? Or are they like sand piled against the breakage in a dam, merely delaying the inevitable? — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

One can grieve over all the water that has ever flowed over the dam. — William Maxwell

Beavers give a dam — Victor J. Garcia

Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out. — Franny Billingsley

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man. — John Muir

Our ideas held no water but we used them like a dam. — Modest Mouse

Queegqueg no care what god made him shark ... wedder Fejee god or Nantucket god; but de god what made him shark must be one dam Ingin. — Herman Melville

The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese. — Eoin Colfer

Release your inner Kane. — Rob Van Dam

But I never get attracted to fans cause the eager beaver could be the collapse of a dam — Drake

That will teach a bitch for buying the same dam shoes as mine and for opening a shop on my block...Charli — Kim Morris

A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel dam. — Marjorie Fleming

Home is my Bethlehem,
my succoring shelter,
my mental hospital,
my wife, my dam,
my husband, my sir,
my womb, my skull. — Anne Sexton

You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it. — Dean Acheson

Every morning when I awake I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam. I tell myself I should keep writing, though I'm not sure that's right — Derrick Jensen

The dam of my eyes broke, and tears flooded the land. — James Sallis

Sacredam!" he cried, when his eyes lit upon Buck. "Dat one dam bully dog! Eh? How moch? — Jack London

Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese. — Eoin Colfer

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks. — Austin O'Malley

Let us find the Dam snack bar. — Rick Riordan

Damn you, Sassenach!" his voice said, from a very great distance. His voice was choked with passion. "Dam you! I swear if ye die on me, I'll kill you! — Diana Gabaldon

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up. — Donald Rumsfeld

[A] pile driver was improvised by mounting a large steam donkey engine, a steam hammer, and a timber tower on a barge. — Ray Bottenberg

They can stop a river by building a dam, but I will be damned if they can stop my river of blood flowing through my veins and heart. — Anthony Liccione

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam. — Michael Chabon

It's a small world? Dude, what have you been smoking? — Rob Van Dam

Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies ... waters that have no life. — Ann Voskamp

Don't let criticism be the dam that turns your raging river of enthusiasm into a complacent lake of indifference~ — M. Craig

I love like a leaky faucet or I love like a dam breaking. There is nothing in between. — Shinji Moon

Hey, when two beavers walk into the house, the first one always tells the other one, Hey, shut the dam door! — Si Robertson

To be a queen-that would not sweeten the bitter water against which I had been building the dam in my soul. It might strengthen the dam, though. — C.S. Lewis

Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate. — Cornelia Otis Skinner

It doesn't make you bad losing to Rob Van Dam ... it just makes you like everybody else. — Rob Van Dam

One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice. — Adrian Rogers

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. — Henry Ford

Cussed fellow-critters! Kick up de damndest row as ever you can; fill your dam bellies 'till dey bust - and den die — Herman Melville