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Avalanche, veux-tu m'emporter dans ta chute?" -- Charles Baudelaire
When you're wearing the Avalanche logo, you battle. -- Patrick Roy
Silver Avalanche coming up the driveway," calls Jeffrey from upstairs."What are you, security?" I call back. -- Cynthia Hand
Silver Avalanche coming up the driveway," calls Jeffrey from upstairs."What are you, security?" I call back." -- Cynthia Hand
The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals. -- Aldous Huxley
The Avalanche," peacemaker Rachel recites, "is very important. It's a privilege to sing it. It's a celebration of our past." Everybody around the table smiles at her."Yeah? Well, I've seen how easily the past can get rewritten." I glare at Mr. OamaruLyrics change. New authors come along." -- Karen Russell
Terremotos e avalanches anunciaram meu retorno." -- Filipe Russo
Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty." -- Stanis?aw Jerzy Lec
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
My white duvet is like an avalanche of blanket." -- Jarod Kintz
As if hands were enoughTo hold an avalanche off." -- Thom Gunn
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things. -- Vernor Vinge
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things." -- Vernor Vinge
Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll." -- Euripides
An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes." -- Marty Rubin
God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour. -- Charles Stanley
Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity." -- Milan Kundera
Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity. -- Milan Kundera
Trying to make someone love you is like trying to climb uphill during an avalanche." -- Valerie J. Lewis Coleman
She would die here and not complain. She would be buried beneath this avalanche of lifelessness." -- Marissa Meyer
We have one precious life: do something extraordinary today, even if it's tiny. A pebble starts the avalanche." -- K.A. Laity
Her own vague red trail created a livid atmosphere. She was like an avalanche and they were her nostalgia." -- E.J. Koh
Judgments are like a snowball. They stick to you. As time rolls along, the snowball becomes a boulder and then an avalanche." -- John Kuypers
He kissed me fiercely, with an utter abandon that I could no more put a halt to than I could stop an avalanche." -- Colleen Houck
Nobody chooses to evolve. It's like floods and avalanches and earthquakes. You never know what's happening until they hit, then it's too late." -- Haruki Murakami
I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation. -- Tre Cool
I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation." -- Tre Cool
The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow. -- Dan Jenkins
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." -- John Muir
Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about getting out of its path, not finding the pebble at its center." -- Jodi Picoult
If this was the price of benefits, it was too high. He wanted his friend back, because that was a man worth taking an avalanche for." -- S.P. Wayne
I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary. -- Seamus Heaney
Even when bad stuff goes down, the person who is just about buried under an avalanche of sad memories is made of stern stuff. And so, keeps standing." -- Sakura Tsukuba
The avalanche was down, the hillside swept bare behind it; the last echoes died on the white slopes; the new mount glittered and lay still in the silent valley." -- Evelyn Waugh
No wonder the only Canadians anyone's ever heard of are the ones who have gotten the hell out. Anyone with talent who stayed would be flattened under an avalanche of equality." -- Maria Semple
Passionately obsessed by anything we love--an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love...." -- Richard Bach
The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
What advice I would give to anybody about anything. Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering." (When asked in an interview about what question he's tired of being asked.)" -- Donald E. Westlake
Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it. -- Roseanne Barr
It's true that even though I'm a world unto myself, I've just a speck of dust in the avalanche of events. But nothing will ever force me to think like a speck of dust!" -- Stanis?aw Lem
I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening upI stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let goI know nothingbut I am here to learn." -- Shane Koyczan
It's like I have a sensor in my head, but she works on a seven-second delay... well-meaning, but perpetually about seven seconds too late to actually do anything to stop the horrific avalanche of shit-you-shouldn't- say-out-loud-but-I-just-did." -- Jenny Lawson
Regret, hurt, bereavement, loss, to permit the flow of even one tear at the upwelling of such feelings was to imperil ancient root systems and retaining walls. Mudslide and black avalanche would result and drown him." -- Michael Chabon
Even in good families a bad apple can begin an avalanche of troubles,' Dutch said as he sat back in his well-seasoned armchair, lighting his curved rustic pipe. From Book I, In Blood There is No Honor" -- Judith Victoria Douglas
I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was a walk in the park - there were no avalanches, it was a beautiful day and I was essentially just walking." -- Aron Ralston
You'll get the biggest bang for each buck by paying off the highest interest rate debt in your portfolio first, while making minimum payments on the remainder. It's called the avalanche method, and it gets you out of debt cheapest and fastest. -- Jean Chatzky
Loneliness came over him, like an avalanche of snow. He was alone. Where he had always wanted to be. You can only trust yourself. There's a rat buried deep in everybody and they'll rat on you if they get pushed far enough." -- William Lindsay Gresham
What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.' -- James Belushi
As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids. -- Michelle Obama
We need music," Nico saidHow's your singing?""Um, no. Can't you just, like, tell it to open? You're the son of Hades and all.""It's not so easy. We need music."I was pretty sure if I tried to sing, all I would cause was an avalanche." -- Rick Riordan
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can"." -- John Muir
The backcountry signs say stuff like BEYOND THIS POINT IS A HIGH RISK AREA, WHICH HAS MANY HAZARDS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, AVALANCHES, CLIFFS, AND HIDDEN OBSTACLES, YOU MAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COST OF YOUR RESCUE and I think, um, no thanks. I choose life." -- Cynthia Hand
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I. -- Barack Obama
A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - that is the right and privilege of any free American." -- Edward Abbey
Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess if you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how. And in a way that's kind of relaxing." -- Miriam Toews
The Unknown TravelersLugged to the gray arbor,I have climbed this snow-stone on my face,My stick, but what, snapped the avalancheThe air filled with slowly falling rocksBreathed in deeply--arrived,The white room, a table coveredWith a towel, mug of ice--fearAmong the legs of a chair, the ashman,Purple and gray she starts upright in her chair." -- John Ashbery
You know, when life presents you only good things and you idealize them to your way.And abruptly it comes up an avalanche of catastrophes and destroys all your beautiful dreams, as a war that destroys an entire country or a volcano that devastates forests.That's how I feel and I write in this diary 'How everything should have been' in my life." -- Pet TorreS
Are the angels of her bed the angelswho come near me alone in mine?Are the green trees in her windowthe color is see in ripe plums?If she always sees backwardand upside down without knowing itwhat chance do we have? I am hauntedby the feeling that she is sayingmelting lords of death, avalanches,rivers and moments of passing through,And I am replying, "Yes, yes.Shoes and pudding." -- Jack Gilbert
Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible -- George Burns
Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche? -- Franz Wright
As if hands were enough To hold an avalanche off. -- Thom Gunn
The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche. -- Jon Ronson
Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche -- Bob Goff
Our little pebble of poor performance helps to start, or to sustain, an avalanche. -- Neal A. Maxwell
You will find it easiest to ride the avalanche in the direction it already travels. -- David Gerrold
I am left with the conviction that an avalanche would be easier to dissuade than that man. -- R.L. LaFevers
I aint know the police was from Babylon And I aint know Im cold just like an avalanche -- Nicki Minaj
The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche. -- John Burroughs
Her own vague red trail created a livid atmosphere. She was like an avalanche and they were her nostalgia. -- E.J. Koh
When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security. -- Stedman Graham
Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated. -- Sathya Sai Baba
I like to skin up ski resorts and, for me, being blind, that's nice because it's wide open, with no avalanche danger. -- Erik Weihenmayer
He kissed me fiercely, with an utter abandon that I could no more put a halt to than I could stop an avalanche. -- Colleen Houck
The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting, just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow. -- Dan Jenkins
There's one thing we need above everything else; it's something we don't talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin. -- Leonard Ravenhill
All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot. -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall
When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders. -- Frantz Fanon
I think that Donald Trump has faced an unprecedented avalanche of critical coverage when he was running and frankly, I think, it in part he owes his victory to that. -- Kellyanne Conway
I like smaller films better. I don't know why. I think it's the intimacy and there's not this avalanche. It is an avalanche, but it's really myopic. It's really small. -- Channing Tatum
Passionately obsessed by anything we love--an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love.... -- Richard Bach
What advice I would give to anybody about anything. Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering." (When asked in an interview about what question he's tired of being asked.) -- Donald E. Westlake
Look at an avalanche, and see that we are at our most powerful when we let go. Look at a flower, and see that we are at our most beautiful when we open up. -- Shane Koyczan

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