Torrent Quotes

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

“Prosperity of wicked men runs like a torrent past, and soon is spent.”

“Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.”

“He made her think of ruins, of mysterious places in shadow and darkness, of storms and torrents of rain.”

“...beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears...”

“Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.”

“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.”

“When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.”

“The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.”

“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.”