Flood Likes Quotes:

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

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Heart, News, Flood Likes, Signposts

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 in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

topic: Life, Taken, Opportunity, Joint Ventures, New Opportunity

There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

topic: Change, Taken, Opportunity, New Opportunity, Stormy Seas

Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground are gone, inundated and carried away by that rush of water. And still the rain beats down on the surface of the river. Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That’s it. That’s my heart.

- Haruki Murakami

source: FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 04, 2015

topic: Rain, Heart, Rivers, Spilling, Signposts

The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors Close after us, for ever. Pause, my soul, On these strange words - for ever - whose large sound Breaks flood-like, drowning all the petty noise Our human moans make on the shores of Time. O Thou that openest, and no man shuts; That shut'st, and no man opens - Thee we wait!

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

source: "Poems" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, ("April"), 1859.

topic: Destiny, Men, Doors, Flood Likes, Blindfolds

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.

- Madeline Miller

topic: Love, Hands, Two, Flood Likes

At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water of a river, life has its moments of drought and its moments of flood. Like the ever-changin cycle of the seasons, life has the soothing warmth of the summers and the piercing chill of its winters. But through it all, God walks with us. Never forget that God is able to lift you from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope, and transform dark and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of inner peace.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Summer, Religious, Dark, Painful Moments, Buoyancy

You'd see more floods like you've seen in Mozambique in 2000, you'd see more droughts like you saw in Kenya in the late 1990s, there would be a serious threat to the water flow down the Nile on which 10 countries depend.

- Nicholas Stern

topic: Country, Water, Kenya, Mozambique, Flood Likes

And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch for blood.Meanwhile, through streets still echoing with trade,Walk grave and thoughtful men,Whose hands may one day wield the patriot's bladeAs lightly as the pen.

- Henry Timrod

source: Henry Timrod, “Charleston”

topic: Lying, Gun, Thoughtful, Flood Likes

There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.

- Auguste Rodin

source: Auguste Rodin, Paul Gsell (1984). “Art: Conversations with Paul Gsell”, p.109, Univ of California Press

topic: Spiritual, Art, Powerful, Cascade, Flood Likes