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But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's.
— Kate Morton
There seems to be the utmost danger, that the younger generation will be carried away with Arminianism as with a flood.
— Jonathan Edwards
Let us throw away our candles and our torches. Let us flood the cities with light. Let us bring a new light to men!
-Equality 7-2521 — Ayn Rand
-Equality 7-2521 — Ayn Rand
Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!
— Richard Flecknoe
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
— Raymond Chandler
There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
— William Shakespeare
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.
— Mindy Kaling
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?
— Anne Provoost
Fellow has the wrong clothes and all that. French chap-or Belgian. Queer fellow, but he's got the goods all right.
— Agatha Christie
That's how he'd thought of most people - appearing in your life like foundlings on the doorstep, only to be swept away later as if by flood .
— Adam Johnson
Noah had 120 years to warn humanity of the flood. We have only 4-5 years until global warming is irreversible
— Yosef Abramowitz
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.
— Stephen Crane
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.
— Joel Osteen
He used deliberation as others use quickness of repartee.
— Agatha Christie
Now that a full flood of music has swept over our country, let Nikhil practise his scales, while we rouse the land with our cracked voices[.]
— Rabindranath Tagore
You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.
— Emily Dickinson
This is how the rain becomes a flood. One drop at a time.
— Jay Kristoff
Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.
— Jean Cocteau
God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.
— Peter Straub
What river can flood over the mountains of your love?
— Sorin Cerin
M'Illumino D'Immenso - I flood myself with the light of the immense.
— Giuseppe Ungaretti
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Never do what an enemy expects, Dudda. We'll go in at dawn. On the flood.
— Bernard Cornwell
That the fighting was done, townspeople began to flood out of alleys and recesses, timidly making for the gate and - presumably - safety.
— Robert Jordan
Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.
— Gary Snyder
If Miss Elton spoke water instead of words, then there would have been a repetition of Noah's flood.
— Kellyn Roth
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.
— James Inhofe
The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.
— Douglas Adams
Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.
— John Wesley Powell
How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times
Creation's mighty seed -
For Man has broke the Fellowship
With murder, lust, and greed. — Margaret Atwood
Creation's mighty seed -
For Man has broke the Fellowship
With murder, lust, and greed. — Margaret Atwood
You may wonder why I haven't killed myself because living with madness or watching it flood the heart of someone we love is unbearable.
— Simon Van Booy
Truth changes as men change, and when truth becomes stable men will become dead, and the insect and the fire and the flood will become truth.
— Charles Bukowski
This is an essential element of the business of being a man: to flood everyone around you in a great radiant arc of bullshit,
— Michael Chabon
When they married and gave in marriage
They danced at the County Ball
And some of them kept a carriage
And the flood destroyed them all. — Hilaire Belloc
They danced at the County Ball
And some of them kept a carriage
And the flood destroyed them all. — Hilaire Belloc
The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.
— Gautama Buddha
LUKE: There is a tide in the affairs of Jedi.
Which taken at a flood, leads to the Force. — Ian Doescher
Which taken at a flood, leads to the Force. — Ian Doescher
Sea-foam
And coral! Oh, I'll
Climb the great pasture rocks
And dream me mermaid in the sun's
Gold flood. — Adelaide Crapsey
And coral! Oh, I'll
Climb the great pasture rocks
And dream me mermaid in the sun's
Gold flood. — Adelaide Crapsey
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.
— Norman Rush
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.
— Sara Teasdale
You wouldn't poison anyone!" she said. Pilar gave her a straight look. "You never know, dear," she said. "When you might have to.
— Margaret Atwood
When this flood blocks the road
I am worried more
by my soil getting washed,
than by getting late
to reach my destination. — Suman Pokhrel
I am worried more
by my soil getting washed,
than by getting late
to reach my destination. — Suman Pokhrel
But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.
— Jessie Burton
Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.
— William Blake
Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
What need the bridge much broader than the flood? The fairest grant is the necessity.
— William Shakespeare
The flood of love will fill all the containers to the fullest, but some containers will be larger than others.
— Peter Kreeft
I let the memories flood me as I fill one page. Then another. And then I'm not even writing about him anymore. I'm writing about me.
— Gayle Forman
If wishes were teardrops the world would flood.
— Greg Keyes
I took pains to relate to him many of my pleasantest adventures, by field and by flood, with the longbow.
— J. Maurice Thompson
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.
— Simone Weil
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.
— James Robison
While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it.
— John Calvin
It was an odd bit of doggerel. First the flame and then the flood, in the end it's Blackthorn blood.
— Cassandra Clare
I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.
— Rumi
My heart is flooded with love. Drowning is the way to go.
— Amanda Mosher
What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.
— Francois Truffaut
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.
— Marcus Aurelius
In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.
— Clarence Darrow
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.
— Julie Berry
I always thought they were a God-send; and they were ... But then again, so was the Great Flood.
— Steve Maraboli
Looking at old photographs inundates you with a flood of nostalgic emotions! And you can't be sure where you want to swim in the deluge of memories!
— Avijeet Das
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.
— Mark Helprin
The museum claims Ebenezer the Allosaurus - the centrepiece of their new exhibit - 'met his end during Noah's Flood about 4,300 years ago
— Anonymous
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.
— Hafez
Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.
— Herman Melville
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.
— John Shimkus
[Humbaba's] sound is like a flood's sound
Slowly forming in the distance,
Then enveloping all other sounds — Herbert Mason
Slowly forming in the distance,
Then enveloping all other sounds — Herbert Mason
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
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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!
— Walter Scott
There are no such things as synonyms!" he practically shouted. "Deluge is not the same as flood.
— Tom Robbins
The great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open ...
— Herman Melville
What I did not know was how longing could store itself away in the hollows of one's bones and then one day without warning flood out.
— J.M. Coetzee
It is right precious to behold
The first long surf of climbing light
Flood all the thirsty east with gold. — James Russell Lowell
The first long surf of climbing light
Flood all the thirsty east with gold. — James Russell Lowell
During intellectual droughts one shower of good ideas can cause a flash-flood to wash away the roads your habits travel.
— Bryant McGill
The Coroner said graciously:
"I have heard of you, M. Poirot," and Poirot made an unsuccessful attempt to look modest. — Agatha Christie
"I have heard of you, M. Poirot," and Poirot made an unsuccessful attempt to look modest. — Agatha Christie
Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain.
— Siegfried Sassoon
If we follow the example of Jesus Christ and become true peacemakers, that flood of love will cover the earth as with a blanket.
— Theodore M. Burton
The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
— Charles Churchill
Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.
— Gautama Buddha
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
— Rumi
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.
— Lady Gaga
the Waterless Flood has now rolled over our city, and indeed over the entire Planet. Most
— Margaret Atwood