Quotes About Floodgates

#1. Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

Nancy Pelosi

#2. The great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open ...

Herman Melville

#3. The way I saw the world changed in an instant. My eyes were opened to a need in this country that was just beginning to be recognized. The floodgates were opened, and our battle-injured warriors filled our military hospitals.

Diana Mankin Phelps

#4. I am a strong believer in kissing
being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates
open for everything else.

Jennifer Lopez

#5. I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.

Ben Folds

#6. When a cupboard is full to overflowing and the doors are opened up, that which is within comes tumbling out and nothing can stop it. When floodgates are opened, the water rushes forth with tremendous power and force, carrying all before it. So with the

Eileen Caddy

#7. I swore I wouldn't check my phone, and now that I've broken that vow it's like the other ones are null and void. Like any addict, I've built my floodgates out of tissue paper.

David Levithan

#8. Training not only anchors my day but also allows me to tap into endless energy and intensity. Whether I was performing at Wrestlemania or shooting a 16 hour day on a movie set, training allows the floodgates to open. It carries me through the rest of the day and night.

Dwayne Johnson

#9. The Christian Coalition of Alabama will work to ensure that reckless trial lawyers and activist judges will not be able to open the floodgates to increase taxes and that private, Christian, parochial and home-school families will be protected.

Johnny Giles

#10. Congressional mistakes have dramatically increased immigration through a series of what I believe were ill-advised actions going back to 1965 when the basic notions of our immigration laws were revised. In 1990, Congress opened the floodgates by passing a 35-percent increase in legal immigration.

Ronald Reagan

#11. I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.

Josh McDermitt

#12. Sexual chaos reigns currently, but out of chaos may flow true understanding and harmony, and either way Elvis almost singlehandedly opened the floodgates.

Lester Bangs

#13. Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.

Earl Sweatshirt

#14. It was as though in these last minutes together
when they had so much to say
they could say nothing of the least significance, for fear it open the floodgates.

Clive Barker

#15. I felt I hadn't breathed since early morning, that my heart had not beat-and only now for the first time I took a breath, only now the floodgates in my chest opened...

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#16. I think life has simply decided to open its floodgates, trying to drown me in a whirlwind of twists and turns

Victoria Aveyard

#17. I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.

Denzel Washington

#18. I'd actually questioned my sanity, wondered if this was it: the substandard past few years had finally led to a mental break with reality, and now, floodgates open, there'd be no limit to the fiends I'd encounter. They'd simply crawl out of my head, down into the world.

Marisha Pessl

#19. Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone's got a free range for you.

Jason Statham

#20. The human heart is evil, absolutely. That is why self-discipline is a virtue. Once you open the floodgates of corruption, there's no stopping it.

B.C. Chase

#21. The floodgates of tears are opened, and they would rush out if you spoke much.

Charlotte Bronte

#22. For Ila the current was the real: it was as though she lived in a present which was like an airlock in a canal, shut away from the tidewaters of the past and the future by steel floodgates.

Amitav Ghosh

#23. Cow," Tanith muttered, and that was it, the floodgates opened, and Stephanie doubled over with laughter that echoed throughout the warehouse. Tanith pointed at Stephanie and backed away. "Skulduggery, she's not being professional!

Derek Landy

#24. So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.

Philip Johnson

#25. I had feared that if I opened the floodgates I would drown. But as the waves crashed over me, I was not consumed, I was swept up, washed, my soul blanketed with blessed relief.

Amy Harmon

#26. After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.

Dan Fogler

#27. So the floodgates open, but nothing comes out. I'm feeling no relief in my head, just doubt. But my heart keeps telling me, 'hold your ground. You'll never learn a thing if you bail out now.

Missy Higgins

#28. What I am is very much a function of what I am not. If the "other" is the Muslim world, then I am the Judeo-Christian world. IF the other is from thousands of light-years away, I am simply human. Redefine alterity and you can erase boundaries.

Sylvain Neuvel

#29. Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#30. All I have to say is, Love one another - that is the height of all philosophy. It is beyond all religions. It is the secret of joy - the fountain of Perpetual Youth - the only rainbow on life's dark cloud.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#31. Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists who enjoy what they do can be perplexed or even horrified that they're doing it?

Jerry Saltz

#32. I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States,

Elizabeth Catlett

#33. I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.

William Shatner

#34. Let Jesus be your boyfriend for now and save yourself from all that trouble.

Ru Dela Torre

#35. necessity had no respect for law. Even custom must bow to it at times.

S.M. Stirling

#36. I'm sorry I'm crying again on national television.

Kelly Clarkson

#37. And what can I tell you, my brother, my killer, what can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I'm glad you stood in my way

Leonard Cohen

#38. It sort of hit me that your life was basically a giant recipe - that you decided all the ingredients that you wanted to put into it..." -Steffy

Jen Nails

#39. THE RICHTER SCALE, WHICH has technically been replaced by the "moment magnitude"1 scale, measures the energy released by an earthquake.

Randall Munroe

#40. There is no value in the reading of Scripture for its own sake, but only if it effectively introduces us to Jesus Christ.

John R.W. Stott

#41. Your mind should be on one thing and one thing only: gaining enough power to be free to live your own purpose and not another man's.

Cheryl Matthynssens