Flowed Quotes

#1. Bright yellow leaves flowed swiftly upon the dark, almost-black water, making patterns as they went. To Mr. Segundus the patterns looked a little like magical writing. 'But then,' he thought, 'So many things do.

Susanna Clarke

#2. The traveling heart went free / With endless streams; that strife was stopped; / And down a thousand vales I dropped, / I flowed to Italy.

Alice Meynell

#3. The very notion of Great Britain's "greatness" is bound up with Empire,' the cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, once wrote: 'Euro-scepticism and littel Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose sugar flowed through English blood , and rotted English teeth.

Andrea Levy

#4. As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting corners grew exponentially. Power breeds corruption.

Steve Forbes

#5. God worked in their lives in proportion to the degree of the koinonia, the quality of love between believers. Their favor with God flowed largely from his pleasure of their depth of fellowship.

John Franklin

#6. The basin fell to the ground broken, and the water flowed to the feet of Madame Defarge. By strange stern ways, and through much staining blood, those feet had come to meet that water.

Charles Dickens

#7. Polite conversation followed rules. Topics were sequential, orderly, and flowed from one to the next like a gentle current when all those conversing were skilled.

Kresley Cole

#8. Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.

Arthur Rimbaud

#9. Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.

Maya Angelou

#10. The mountains were gone, replaced by a lush green vale. A river flowed out of the mountains, twisting in great curves through the vale until it

John Gwynne

#11. I was stunned by the unexpected electricity that flowed through me, amazed that it was possible to be more aware of him than I already was. A crazy impulse to reach over and touch him, to stroke his perfect face just once in the darkness, nearly overwhelmed me.
-Bella

Stephenie Meyer

#12. I still loved Granny. It flowed out of my chest. With Granny gone, where would my love go?

Jessica Maria Tuccelli

#13. The second god lived by mountains that flowed
By the blue shiny lit roads
Had forgot what others still tried to grasp

Mark E. Smith

#14. We need strong public health institutions to respond to any challenge. We need to deal with critical infrastructure. The reality is that very little money has flowed to communities to help our first responders; to help our hospitals; to help the public health infrastructure.

Bob Menendez

#15. I had no way of knowing where it began or where it ended. Only that it flowed without restraint.

Shin Kyung-sook

#16. In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them.

Umair Haque

#17. History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts; it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called 'eternal.' What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.

Elizabeth Bowen

#18. Her happiness flowed into every word in the song giving it new life

Anamika Mishra

#19. Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. There was a foundation of wildness and bravery in her

Victor Hugo

#20. And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts.

Emma Donoghue

#21. Then her soul sat on her lips, and language flowed, from what source I cannot tell.

Charlotte Bronte

#22. A white linen tablecloth
edged with pink roses --
Mama's favorite pattern --
flowed like a bride's train
from sidewalk to curb to gutter.
Papa stared at black boot marks
crossing it like sins.

Paul B. Janeczko

#23. Bess and I had a talk. January 1919. Everything flowed from that talk, that moment. Everything. Look back on your life and see if you can pinpoint the moment when everything changed. If you can't? That means you haven't had your momemt yet, and you better hold on to your ass, it's coming.

J.R. Moehringer

#24. Mama often said that no one is ever really entirely unhappy. I agreed with her here in my prison, when the sky took on so many colours and the light of a new day gradually flowed into my cell. Because

Albert Camus

#25. To look forward to whatever flowed through the doors. To save a life? Two lives? I felt proud. The burden of treating the intractable, untreatable, unplaceable, unwanted, had been replaced by the fantasy of being a real doctor, dealing with real disease.

Samuel Shem

#26. Hitler was "someone seduced by himself," someone who was so inseparable from his words "that a measure of authenticity flowed over the audience even when he was telling obvious lies.

Volker Ullrich

#27. At length he told the Lord he would leave it in His hands. Peace flowed back. No voice or light disclosed the next move,

John Charles Pollock

#28. This time, I invited it in. I felt the darkness tame my impetuous nature, allowing me to feed slowly on the hatred and control it. The coldness flowed through my veins and to the lengths of each limb. The icy darkness pooled in my chest and chilled my heart.

Leigh Goff

#29. From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.

Homer

#30. Leah was more than beautiful. She was filled with some spirit, a high quality, which Peony admired and did not understand. The Chinese said of her, "She is heaven-good." They meant that her goodness was natural and that it flowed from a fountain within herself.

Pearl S. Buck

#31. There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.

George Eliot

#32. The "hot money" flowed into Europe and today once rich and powerful nations like Ireland, Greece, Italy, and Spain are financial basket cases that may not recover.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#33. She doesn't know any other way to express her love, it always flowed like a river inside her. Don't judge her for the way she love .Like an artist she carves each relation in her life wholeheartedly. Now its an art work , you might not like her art but don't doubt her love which created that.

Archna Mohan

#34. Strength ebbed and flowed, but brittle would break.

Shelley Noble

#35. He was a long, stripy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots, as if Nature, setting out to make a constable, had had a good deal of material left over which she had not liked to throw away but hardly seemed able to fit into the general scheme.

P.G. Wodehouse

#36. There it was: suddenly, the tension of keeping up her appearances fell from her. Something flowed out of him physically, that made her feel inwardly at ease and happy, at home. With a woman's now alert instinct for happiness, she registered it at once. 'I'm happy when he's there!' Not

D.H. Lawrence

#37. I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.

George Fox

#38. So his life has flowed
From its mysterious urn a sacred stream,
In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure
Alone are mirrored; which, though shapes of ill
May hover round its surface, glides in light,
And takes no shadow from them.

Thomas Noon Talfourd

#39. She wrote sniffing back the tears that flowed over the version of things that her unconscious insisted on sicking up.

Helen Hodgman

#40. Someone once asked the Spartan king Leonidas to identify the supreme warrior virtue from which all others flowed. He replied: "Contempt for death." For us as artists, read "failure.

Steven Pressfield

#41. Maybe this was all down to some supernatural effect, such as grace, that flowed through people's lives even if they didn't understand why.

Neal Stephenson

#42. The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves.

Quentin Crisp

#43. Bet I can blow a hole in your chest before you can crush my leg."
"You wouldn't dare."
"Why not?" I asked.
A touch of fear flowed through his eyes. "I am the human servant of a council member."
"Not impressed," I said. "Try door number two.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#44. She inhaled deep breaths filled with salty air and watched the moon cast streaks across the rippling river, unable to determine in which direction it flowed or where it went, but suddenly curious about it for the first time.

Abby Slovin

#45. The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

Joseph Conrad

#46. But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed, it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment! Oh, to be able to grasp this, to understand this!

Hermann Hesse

#47. I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn't just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen.

Jojo Moyes

#48. He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.

Stephen King

#49. Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side ... whatever was in many and varied ways announced beforehand in the sacrifices of the Old Testament pertains to this one sacrifice which is revealed in the New Testament.

Saint Augustine

#50. I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that the words flowed together like water over a riverbed.

Silas House

#51. Fats and Andrew were perhaps equally aware that the admiration in their relationship flowed mostly from Andrew to Fats; but Fats alone suspected that he needed Andrew more than Andrew needed him.

J.K. Rowling

#52. But this feeling with him...Severine closed her eyes and drank the moment in. Some things didn't come naturally for Severine. Yet, right now, it all flowed perfectly. This moment was written before it had ever begun. It was meant for her.

Calia Read

#53. It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.

Paul Cezanne

#54. Pray, always pray; beneath sins heaviest load, Prayer claims the blood from Jesus' side that flowed. Pray, always pray; though weary, faint, and lone, Prayer nestles by the Father's sheltering throne.

A.B. Simpson

#55. In the person of Quanah Parker, an extraordinary man in whom the blood of two strong peoples flowed, the Lone Star and the Comanche Moon at last found common ground.

Thomas W. Knowles

#56. Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

Julian Assange

#57. How was it that time only flowed in one direction, implacable and impersonal, dragging everyone with it, and couldn't be stopped and turned back to that one moment?

Nicci Gerrard

#58. The ink line drawing flowed the cursive journey,
created on paper canvas that brought the story to life.

Jazz Feylynn

#59. Life was like a river, and the river flowed in one direction and one direction only. Sometimes it moved nice and easy through familiar territory; other times it became wild and turbulent and carried you to untamed lands. You either made the most of the ride or you didn't.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#60. Phineas just walked serenely on, or rather flowed on, rolling forward in his white sneakers with such unthinking unity of movement that "walk" didn't describe it.

John Knowles

#61. His picturesque and filthy loquacity flowed like a troubled stream from a poisoned source.

Joseph Conrad

#62. Papier-mache canals flowed in downtown Lowell, men smoking cigars stand by the rail spitting in the waters that reflect the drizzle hopelessness of 1926.

Jack Kerouac

#63. To each other, they talked at a gallop. Literature turned them on; their ideas flowed, ran back and forth like a current. (The Cousins)

Elizabeth Spencer

#64. In a city you thought of all life as human life. You had to live in the heart of the woods to realize that humanity was a slight ripple on the surface of a flood of life that seeped into every vacant crack, flowed into every biological vacuum the moment it occurred.

Helen McCloy

#65. There 's not one atom of yon earth But once was living man; Nor the minutest drop of rain, That hangeth in its thinnest cloud, But flowed in human veins;

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#66. Katsa watched the long grass moving around them. The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place and then another. It rose and fell and rose again. It flowed, like water.

Kristin Cashore

#67. Women could protest from now till piss flowed uphill, but the truth was, there wasn't one didn't secretly love a killer. And

Thomas Pynchon

#68. Two little drops in that river that flowed silently towards the unknown; two little drops that to themselves had so much individuality and to the onlooker were but an undistinguishable part of the water.

W. Somerset Maugham

#69. You want to know what the saddest part is Tess?" I said, sounding choked up.
"What's that Josh?"
I felt my heart constricting as the brutal truth flowed from my lips. "You say she's mine ... but honestly, I don't think she was ever mine to begin with.

Angela Richardson

#70. Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills ... Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man

Robert Kennedy

#71. His shoulder-length hair was a rich, dark-brown color with a slight wave to it and it flowed behind him as he ran into the center of the gypsies. He was tall, muscular, and so beautifully handsome, yet primal. He looked magnificent.

Madison Thorne Grey

#72. The spirit flowed more freely and made for a more spontaneous style of worship.

John Grisham

#73. I had not slept with many men other than my husband, but I had noticed that before to sleep, actually sleep with someone did give this sense of intimacy, as though your dreams had flowed out of you to mingle with his and fold you both in a blanket of unconscious knowing.

Diana Gabaldon

#74. One can grieve over all the water that has ever flowed over the dam.

William Maxwell

#75. I loved my mission in Switzerland and Germany. As I left on the train from Basel, Switzerland, tears flowed down my cheeks because I knew then that my full-time service in the Church had ended.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#76. In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.

Bob Dylan

#77. All those statistics that you are gathering about your own experiences and about others are only about how somebody has flowed Energy. It isn't about any hard fast reality.

Esther Hicks

#78. Your face was furrowed by the plow of grief, and blood flowed freely from Your thorn-crowned brow; such

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#79. She watched as the chocolate looped through the tubes, then flowed along a flat surface until it cascaded over the edge, creating a chocolate waterfall so smooth and shiny she could see her reflection in it. The

Wendy Mass

#80. It's like she had a soul that was much too big for her; it filled her to the brim till there was no more space, so it flowed out through her eyes.

Nick Lake

#81. We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Winston Churchill

#82. They were full of light, of fire and starlight and sunshine. They over-flowed with it as they snapped the final tether on the king's power and cleaved his darkness away, burning it up until it was nothing.

Sarah J. Maas

#83. It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.

Erich Von Stroheim

#84. The skin was warm, blue veins branching like rivers beneath his pale translucent skin. Outside the greater rivers flowed, the Red Fork and the Tumblestone, and they would flow forever, but not so the rivers in her father's hand. Too soon that current would grow still.

George R R Martin

#85. My work in government has flowed from the fundamental idea of personal empowerment. It's about giving people the tools they need to pave their own way.

James Langevin

#86. When Jesus wept, the falling tear
in mercy flowed beyond all bound;
when Jesus groaned, a trembling fear
seized all the guilty world around.

William Billings

#87. Until under the stimulus of accumulating material, accumulating investments or other circumstances, the tide of private enterprise flowed again.

H.G.Wells

#88. To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that in losing a beloved one may find so many things, pictures, poems, melodies, places lost too: Dante, Avignon, a song of Shakespeare's, the Cornish sea.

Iris Murdoch

#89. He still had the power to stagger her at timessimply the fact that he was breathing that all his organs were in their proper places that blood flowed quietly and effectively through his small sturdy limbs. He was her flesh and blood her mother had told her in the hospital the day Akash was born.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#90. Flowed through me. He didn't pull away. It seemed as though he was straining forward, his upper body already over the gearshift

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#91. For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.

Vanessa Lachey

#92. Places remained and time flowed through them like wind through the grass. Right now. This was the future turning into the past. One thing becoming another. Like a flame on the end of a match. Wood turning into smoke. If only we could burn brighter. A barn roaring in the night.

Mark Haddon

#93. The sun had already set behind the mountains, and the sky had been drained of color. The trellises of sauvignon blanc flowed down the hill in even rows toward the valley floor. Whatever I was looking for, it wasn't outside. As far as I could tell, the grapes were minding their own business.

Frederick Weisel

#94. Once, if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where every wine flowed.

Arthur Rimbaud

#95. The land, indifferent to human boundaries, flowed on unchanged.

David Eddings

#96. For all the hardship, I was still excited to be on the trail, testing my endurance, feeling especially alive as strength and fatigue flowed alternately through my limbs.

Colin Powell

#97. The blood flowed freely in my veins, but a weight of despair and remorse pressed on my heart, which nothing could remove.

Mary Shelley

#98. His thumb touched her lower lip, his eyes fixed on her. As if he couldn't be stopped, the words flowed out of his mouth. I want to take you in my arms, to kiss you long and hard, to touch you like you've never been touched, to give you the pleasure I feel running in your veins.

Chris Lange

#99. Mistasinon stood as the music of life flowed around him, the instrument of his agency muted.

F.D. Lee

#100. Blood began to flow, at first cautiously, as if embarrassed by its appearance; a few thin red lines exploring the gravitational trajectory of its new terrain. Now it flowed faster, steadily staining her pale flesh a horrific red.

R.D. Ronald