“ Passions are likened best to floods and streams, The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. ”
- Sir Walter Raleigh- Copy
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“ 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 by shallows and in misery. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ There is a tide in the affairs of women Which, taken at the flood, leads - God knows where. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ When a just cause reaches its flood-tide, as ours has done…, whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power. ”
- Carrie Chapman Catt- Copy
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“ It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come. ”
- Brenda Ueland- Copy
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“ All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent. ”
- Shana Alexander- Copy
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“ Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will. ”
- Jose Ortega y Gasset- Copy
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“ A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent. ”
- Charles James Fox- Copy
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“ Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. ”
- Mary Shelley- Copy
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“ The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. ”
- Paul Valery- Copy
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“ Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories? ”
- Todd Gitlin- Copy
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“ A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream — if it is intended that you stay there. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
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“ No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara ever turned light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. ”
- Harry Emerson Fosdick- Copy
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“ Thus the scene of the tragedy of Liberty world over must be suffering and discontent among the people. The drama moves swiftly in a torrent of words in which real purposes are disguised in portrayals of Utopia; idealism without realism; slogans, phrases and statements destructive to confidence in existing institutions; demands for violent action against slowly curable ills; unfair representation that sporadic wickedness is the system itself; searing prejudice against the former order; dismay and panic in the economic organization which feeds on its own despair… ”
- Herbert Clark Hoover- Copy
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“ Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries. ”
- John Muir- Copy
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“ We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent of information and entertainment pouring from ever-open electronic jaws. It could end by stupefying us. ”
- Storm Jameson- Copy
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“ Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind. ”
- Og Mandino- Copy
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“ Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you — tripping on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as Leif the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. There we go beyond those limited and limiting patterns of body, emotions, volition, and understanding that have been keeping us in dry-dock… ”
- Jean Houston- Copy
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