Roaring quotes

Roaring

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James Keller
James Keller Inventor, Humanitarian

"Some time ago we heard a strange story. The pilot of a small plane said that he had been caught in a one hundred fifty mile gale, which held his plane perfectly still. The motor was roaring, he claimed, but the plane was not moving. "It was weird," he said , "to be going one hundred fifty miles an hour and yet not be going anywhere at all.""

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Franz Kafka Writer
Roaring

"One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy."

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John Green Author, YouTuber
Roaring

"That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Roaring

"You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Roaring

"The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing beast ahead."

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
Roaring

"O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!"

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