The Year Of The Flood Quotes

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

Andrew Cuomo

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

Ryan Tedder

#3. How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times
Creation's mighty seed -
For Man has broke the Fellowship
With murder, lust, and greed.

Margaret Atwood

#4. The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

Edith Hamilton

#5. I believe the chance of any event causing Berkshire to experience financial problems is essentially zero. We will always be prepared for the thousand-year flood; in fact, if it occurswe will be selling life jackets to the unprepared.

Warren Buffett

#6. Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're no longer at home in it. We need to dilute it. We can't drink it straight. And God is the same. Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

Margaret Atwood

#7. The ripple of today's lie is tomorrow's wave and next year's flood.

Max Lucado

#8. She was one of her kind, the most American she would ever be, the last American left in this hundred-year flood.

Matthew Salesses

#9. A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.

Earl Blumenauer

#10. gone, you see, yet finding

Mark Twain

#11. Kiss after wet kiss, he devoured her, almost a full year of pent-up desire
unleashing in one terrible flood.

Miranda Liasson

#12. 2009 saw the eighth 'ten-year flood' of Fargo, North Dakota, since 1989. In Iowa, Cedar Rapids was hit last year by a flood that exceeded the 500-year flood plain. All-time flood records are being broken in areas throughout the world.

Al Gore

#13. Fame is a very unnatural human condition. When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.

Chevy Chase

#14. On the pavement near my car are the smashed skeletons of two baby birds, their flattened beaks and wings making them look reptilian. They've been there for a year. I can't resist looking at them each time I get in my car. We need a good flood, wash them away.

Gillian Flynn

#15. You know you can't be a nice girl inside if you're a dirty slut outside

George Bernard Shaw

#16. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard.

Simon Baker

#17. You wouldn't poison anyone!" she said. Pilar gave her a straight look. "You never know, dear," she said. "When you might have to.

Margaret Atwood

#18. But with sea levels rising along the East Coast - a natural phenomenon accelerated by climate change - scientists project that in our lifetimes what was once considered a hundred-year flood will happen every three to twenty years.

Deborah Blum

#19. I can still remember the day, as an assistant U.S. attorney, when I stood up in court for the first time and I proudly said, "My name is Samuel Alito and I represent the United States in this court." It was a great honor for me to have the United States as my client during all of those years.

Samuel Alito

#20. No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

William Ellery Channing

#21. His blue eyes, lively and close-set, revealed the gentleness of a man who had read all of the books.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#22. Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.

Seth Godin

#23. Perhaps being an actress means that in a situation like this people will constantly be questioning whether the emotions you display are genuine.

Dorothy Simpson

#24. And we find at the end of a perfect day, The soul of a friend we've made.

Carrie Jacobs-Bond

#25. Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.

Aretha Franklin

#26. Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

Gish Jen

#27. We all have our secrets.

Leigh Bardugo