Top 15 Torrent Quotes

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

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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
Seth Shostak
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.
Paul Valery
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.
Luciana Berger
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.
Jack Gilbert
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.
James Beattie
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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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.
James L. Petigru
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.
Todd Gitlin
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.
Cesare Beccaria
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
Mary Shelley
People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It’s no money out of my pocket.
Michael A. Stackpole
The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women’s rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
Shana Alexander
Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.
Theocritus
The expenses of complying with Washington’s torrent of mandates and regulatory overreach are costing American workers jobs and income growth.
Elaine Chao