#flood

The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium. ↗

— Robert Trout

#british #british empire #china #crimes #destruction

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#american #films #flood #into #liberation

I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it? ↗

— Peter Wright

#colour #flooding #front #going #i

If the massive invasion is not stopped, we are going to be flooded to the extent that we will drift into third world status. For our children and for our grandchildren, we cannot fail on this issue. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#children #drift #extent #fail #flooded

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations. ↗

— Keith Henson

#behaviour #brains #chemicals #flooding #generations

I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream. ↗

— John Breaux

#also #coast #constructed #contributed #downstream

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#asleep #calm #fields #floods #full

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#into #print #process #rather #reading

When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out. ↗

— Carmen Electra

#bad #come #flooding #happens #insecurities

China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets. ↗