“The people who flood our living-rooms with a smorgasbord of commercial messages about fetid breath, moist underarms and troubled intestines know this: an appropriate time, place and manner to sell a product is any that sells the product.” PeopleKnowsRoomsProductsMessagesBreathsSellsAdvertisingAppropriateFloodLiving RoomIntestinesAppropriate Time Book:The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts Source: The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts
“If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.” IfsYearsDesireTurnsThousandPatienceProphetFloodDistressThousand YearsCalamityHaving Patience Author:Hafez
“The highest level of prayer is not a prayer for anything. It is a deep and profound silence, in which we allow ourselves to be still and know Him. In that silence, we are changed. We are calmed. We are illumined. Prayer is meant to dissolve the worldly focus, to dissolve our sense of a separate self, to help us detach from an insane world order. We pray that He might flood our minds. Prayer is like pouring hot water on an ice cube, melting the cold and encrusted thought forms that still surround our hearts.” KnowsWorldMindHeartStillsSelfHelpingMightFormOrderWaterPrayerLevelsSilenceFocusChangedColdPrayingHighestHotProfoundInsaneIceSurroundFloodWorldlyMeltingPouringWorld OrderCubesHot WaterInsane World Author:Marianne Williamson
“When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears?” ShouldWritingFirstsDoeSelfShowsSeemsTearsMercyOneselfPityRisingInner StrengthTendernessFloodAutobiographySelf Pity Book:The Diary of a Country Priest Source: The Diary of a Country Priest
“But although we have noticed the ark as being the first ship, we cannot with propriety place it in the front of the history of navigation. After the flood the ark seems to have been soon forgotten, or at least imperfectly remembered, and men reverted to their little canoes and clumsy boats, which sufficed for all their limited wants. It was not until about a thousand years later in the world” MenWorldWantYearsFirstsLittlesHas BeensSeemsFrontsThousandForgottenShipsBoatRememberedFloodThousand YearsSailingClumsyProprietyArkNavigation Author:R. M. Ballantyne
“The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.” IfsFeelsCommunityBuildingProgramFloodRequirements Author:Earl Blumenauer
“As a biblical inerrantist, I believe that what the Bible teaches is true and bow to the text, including its teaching about the Flood and its universality.” BelieveI BelieveTeachTeachingIncludingBowsBiblicalFloodUniversality Author:William A. Dembski
“The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds of times each year, the nation's governors call upon their Guard troops to respond to fires, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.” YearsFirstsAmericaForceNationsNaturalFireMilitaryCrisisDisasterGovernorsTroopsFloodHurricanesNatural DisasterWartimeNational Guard Author:Russel Honore