Flows Quotes

These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow.

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.

There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love.

A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.

The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.

I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.

If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.

Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.

Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing.

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.