Flood Quotes
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There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
William Shakespeare -
When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.
John Ruskin -
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.
Earl Blumenauer -
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.
Edwidge Danticat -
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.
R. C. Sproul -
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.
William Shakespeare -
It's been a flood area for quite a long time, but the floods are getting deeper and more frequent.
Larry Miller
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Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity.
Anna Komnene -
Grew up in Stapleton House village, where blood flood the waters in the streets like oil spillage
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen -
I open my eyes to see Ry staring at me, and my desert soul erupts with turquoise water, floods and cascades and waterfalls rushing in around my rocky parts, pushing and reshaping and filling every hidden dark spot.
Kiersten White -
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
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!
Brian Tracy -
Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.
Diane Ackerman
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To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.
John Milton -
What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable of acts that are not admirable, and it is He who brought about the Flood. How about the slaying of children in Jericho? There are a few Bible stories that are not as terrible as they are happy. We just prefer to leave out the terrible part, but that only makes the good anemic.
Ted Dekker -
In the story, which is only a few chapters long in Genesis, Noah never even speaks until after the flood - but when you have Russell Crowe, you're going to make him speak.
Darren Aronofsky -
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.
Vinoba Bhave -
There's no such thing as a 100-year flood.
Andrew Cuomo -
This is all floodplain, ... There's always a chance of flood, but I'm more concerned now with what happened in New Orleans.
Jeff Long
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He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to contain. He was immediately swept up in it. It took no effort, the difference between swimming on your own and being washed away in a flood.
Sarah Addison Allen -
Through effort you will cross any raging flood, through energy you will pass any sorrow.
Gautama Buddha -
Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.
Akon -
We are taking all of the necessary precautions to address those areas that typically flood during heavy rains.
J. M. Roberts