Words matter. These are the best Torrent Quotes from famous people such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Seth Shostak, Paul Valery, Luciana Berger, Jack Gilbert, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
As far as I can tell, the only unambiguous consequence of the claimed invasion of Earth by beings from another star system has been a nonstop torrent of TV specials. So if you’re one of the many who believe the aliens are here, you really do have to admit this: They’re the best houseguests ever.
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.
When I was selected as a Labour council candidate in 2009, people publicly challenged how I could possibly represent anyone from the Bengali community because of my faith and since my selection and election as the member of parliament for Liverpool, Wavertree, I have received a torrent of anti-Semitic abuse.
You can’t work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames – of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale’s song in the grove.
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.
If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.
As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it.
Nothing could be more dangerous than following the popular maxim whereby it is the spirit of the law that must be consulted. This is an embankment that, once broken, gives way to a torrent of opinions.
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It’s no money out of my pocket.
The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women’s rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.
The expenses of complying with Washington’s torrent of mandates and regulatory overreach are costing American workers jobs and income growth.