{"quotes":[{"text":"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.","author":"Norman Maclean","tags":["flood","river","time","water","words"],"id":34774,"author_id":"Norman+Maclean"},{"text":"A young man was sitting at home when a terrible rainstorm began. Within hours, the man’s house began to flood, and someone came to his door offering a ride to higher ground. The man declined, saying, 'God will take care of me.' A few hours later, as the waters engulfed the first floor of the man’s home, a boat passed by, and the captain offered to take the man to safety. The man declined, saying, 'God will take care of me.' A few hours after that, as the man waited on his roof—his entire home flooded—a helicopter flew by, and the pilot offered transportation to dry land. Again the man declined, telling the pilot that God would care for him. Soon thereafter, the waters overcame the man, and as he stood before God in heaven, he protested his fate: 'You promised that you’d help me so long as I was faithful.' God replied, 'I sent you a car, a boat, and a helicopter. Your death is your own fault.' God helps those who help themselves.","author":"J.D. Vance","tags":["faith","flood","god","heaven","help","parable"],"id":42809,"author_id":"J.D.+Vance"},{"text":"I over love.I under love.I am either a floodor I am nothing.","author":"AVA.","tags":["empowerment","flood","heartbreak","heartbroken","inspirational","love","poems","poetry","prose","qotd","quotes","self-love","wisdom"],"id":71269,"author_id":"AVA."},{"text":"When I speak of God, I mean that god who prevented man from putting forth his hand and taking also of the fruit of the tree of life that he might live forever; of that god who multiplied the agonies of woman, increased the weary toil of man, and in his anger drowned a world—of that god whose altars reeked with human blood, who butchered babes, violated maidens, enslaved men and filled the earth with cruelty and crime; of that god who made heaven for the few, hell for the many, and who will gloat forever and ever upon the writhings of the lost and damned.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["agony","anger","bible","blood","butcher","christianity","crime","cruelty","damned","earth","flood","god","heaven","hell","jehovah","judaism","lost","maidens","slavery","the-bible","the-flood","toil","tree-of-life","violate","weary","writhing","yahweh"],"id":84272,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"There had to be something new, some fresh angle. As the rain pattered down around him, Kapenda thought. What was the weirdest thing he'd seen since this all started? He'd been in the tiny town of Chew Stoke a few weeks earlier, filming the remains of a vehicle that had been washed into a culvert and whose driver had died. In Grovehill, no one had died yet but there were abandoned cars strewn along the streets and surrounding tracks, hulking shapes that the water broke around and flowed over in fractured, churning flurries.That was old. Every television station had those shots.He'd been there the year before when the police had excavated a mud-filled railway tunnel and uncovered the remains of two people who had been crushed in a landslide. What they needed was something like that here, something that showed how weak man's civilized veneer was when set against nature's uncaring ferocity. He needed something that contrasted human frailty and natural strength, something that Dali might have painted - a boat on a roof, or a shark swimming up the main street. He needed that bloody house to collapse.('Into The Water').","author":"Simon Kurt Unsworth","tags":["disaster","flood","journalism","photographer","photography","photojournalism","salvador-dali"],"id":94373,"author_id":"Simon+Kurt+Unsworth"},{"text":"For the briefest of instants, a miles-wide hole appeared from the middle of the Earth to the top of the sky. The Moho rang like a tuning fork in harmonic response to the billion megaton impact. Seismic waves propagated in all directions, some dampening as normal, others amplified harmonically as Earth’s interior quivered like a bowl of pudding. Seismometers spiked wildly, their needles bouncing back and forth like pin-balls.A billion megatons exploded outward from the depths of the quivering Moho blasting a crater eighty-five miles in diameter and spewing billions of tons of superheated rock twelve hundred miles into space. In the blink of an eye the Earth grew a tail, as a mushroom cloud visible from Mars formed and spread, black as the Devil's eye.","author":"Raymond Dean White","tags":["action-adventure","apocalypse","cataclysm","catastrophe","dystopian","earthquakes","fire","flood","impact-winter","plague","survival-story","tsunamis","war"],"id":111199,"author_id":"Raymond+Dean+White"},{"text":"As the Epic Film, Noah, debuts this weekend, those of you who have read Samrajni of Pemako know about the Noah subplot in the novel.Yes, Safiya, the protagonist is distantly related to Noah...","author":"Roy C. Marien","tags":["bible","flood","noah"],"id":112140,"author_id":"Roy+C.+Marien"},{"text":"People are like water: Many rush pass you, as some will over-flood. Some will drown you, or force you to go their current ways. Some will be cold or hot-tempered, but try to say with the warm ones. Some will come as a raging wave and cause a ripple, or a calm sea, supporting you, quenching your thirst, and flow by your side to where kisses will always stay wet.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["cold","difference","flood","hot","kisses","people","personalities","quench","ripple","sea","thirst","water","waves","wet"],"id":159876,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"...The great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open...","author":"Herman Melville","tags":["flood","wonder"],"id":204712,"author_id":"Herman+Melville"},{"text":"Not every dream grows on every land, so you got to watch out! “Sugar cane” dreams should find the environment where there is flooding of great ideas from great people. It will die off if it is planted at the place where the drought of discouragement is a well cherished culture!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["big-dreams","cherish","culture","discourage","discouragement","dream-big","drought","environment","flood","flooding","great-ideas","great-people","israelmore-ayivor","land","plant","planted","sugar","sugar-cane"],"id":206150,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}