#torrent

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 Wollstonecraft Shelley

#bounds #break #dark #death #first

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#always #brought #cause #centuries #continually

Napoleon is a torrent which as yet we are unable to stem. Moscow will be the sponge that will suck him dry. ↗

— Mikhail Kutuzov

#him #moscow #napoleon #sponge #stem

The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#changes #flows #law #like #rights

The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#chronic #desire #dissatisfaction #heart #manufacture

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

#boulder #expect #him #man #must

Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense. ↗

— Theocritus

#now #sense #torrent #words

If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all. ↗

— Lisa Tawn Bergren

#marriage #torrent #love

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#fire #folly #greed #hatred #passion

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

#day #forgetfulness #grove #hamlet #heard