Flash Floods Quotes

• But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.

  Peter Watts

  Self, Brain, Doe

  Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.220, Head of Zeus

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• When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.

  Edward Abbey

  Mean, Writing, Disease And Death

  "Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey ("Down the River", p. 147), 1968.

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• Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Numbers, Gone

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• La Tierra es el pinball de Dios y cada terremoto, maremoto, inundación repentina y erupción volcánica es el resultado de un TILT que se produce cuando Dios, haciendo trampas, intenta ganar partidas gratis.

  Tom Robbins

  Trampas, Ganar, Juegos

  Tom Robbins (2003). "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues", p.226, Bantam.

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• Supongo que recuerda algo de mí, algo de nosotros juntos, y que el resto se le escapó como tierra vegetal en una inundación repentina.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Juntos, Recordar, Tierra vegetal

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• A few little flowers will spring up briefly in the dry gulley through which torrents of water pass occasionally. But it is steady streams that bring thick and needed crops. In the agriculture of the soul that has to do with nurturing attributes, flash floods are no substitute for regular irrigation.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Spring, Flower, Agriculture

  "Notwithstanding My Weakness". Book by Neal A. Maxwell, pg. 7, 1981.

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• ¡Santo cielo! ¡Perdimos nuestro último partido y se avecina una tormenta!
  ¡Que empiece la fiesta!
  ¡Una riada se ha llevado todo nuestro equipo y estamos a treinta kilómetros del inicio del sendero!
  ¡Que siga la fiesta!
  El fémur me está atravesando la piel y tengo que cruzar ese río.
  ¡Que empiece la fiesta!

  Cody Lundin

  Party, Rivers, Survival

  Cody Lundin (2011). “98. 6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

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