Flood Quotes

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.

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

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

When pride thaws, look for floods.

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

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.

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

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

There are degrees and kinds of solitude. I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.

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

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

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

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.)

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

Certainly Paul shares the view of the Old Testament prophets that God will one day flood the world with justice and joy - and that this has begun to be fulfilled in the resurrection of Jesus.

They always say to Californians that we don't have seasons. Of course, that is not true. We have fire, flood, mud and drought.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.

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

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

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

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

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