#torrent

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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

The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.


C. S. Forester


#arm #bubbling #came #day #down

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


#based #change #conservatism #idea #leave