Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

French Lawyer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

English Writer

Todd Gitlin

The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter.

American Sociologist

Jose Ortega y Gasset

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

Spanish Philosopher

Robert Louis Stevenson

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

Scottish Writer

James L. Petigru

If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.

American Public Servant

Mary Shelley

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

English Author

Shana Alexander

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

American Journalist

Peter Sunde

To be honest, it's not really hard to run a torrent site, or set one up.

Swedish Businessman

Theocritus

Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.

Greek Poet

Used to describe powerful movements in nature, like water, to emphasize strength and speed.

Natural Force

Can be used metaphorically to describe abundant or uncontrolled situations.

Metaphorical Use

Implies an intense, often overwhelming, and uncontrolled flow of liquid.

Intensity

Often describes a sudden outburst of feelings or words.

Emotional Release

Indicates strong and continuous flow, especially in a negative sense, like criticism or insults.

Strong Language

Refers to peer-to-peer sharing of very large files, dividing the file into smaller parts.

File Sharing

Using torrents for downloading can be faster than traditional methods, depending on the number of seeders.

Internet Speed

Be aware that downloading torrents can sometimes involve copyrighted material, which can be illegal.

Legality Concern

 So all of this is a lot of twittering, right? Well it was a lot of noise and complexity in my head, until actually I realized it was happening because of four key drivers. One, a renewed belief in the importance of community, and a very redefinition of what friend and neighbor really means. A torrent of peer-to-peer social networks

Rachel Botsman: The case...

 and in that shift, you completely reframe all the information you've been given. The hardest part of construction for me is coming up with a great idea for an aha. Fortunately, the world is a torrent of ideas and information. I've seen fantastic puzzles constructed out of the waggle dances of bees,

The joyful, perplexing...

 as soon as I decided to honor the community I came from and tell their story, that the songs started to come thick and fast. I've described it as a kind of projectile vomiting, a torrent of ideas, of characters, of voices,

Sting: How I started...

 he's closest to the torrent but he's not the miner in most danger gravity dictates that water always heads to the lowest point the deepest part of the mine are the tunnels in the main shaft just over half a kilometre away

Coal Mine Floods PIPE...

 and pour a torrent of light onto our dark world." Although he accomplishes something awe-inspiring, he has played with fire at his own ethical expense. And that decision echoes throughout the novel,

Everything you need to...

 releasing a torrent of saliva that became a furious river. While the beast was not dead, he was bound, and Odin celebrated his victory over fate. But in truth, his actions had only sealed his doom.

The myth of Loki’s...

 countries neither peace nor pause in fact every significant ambassador at the United Nations was lobbied in his or her office often more than once with a torrent of material and a cacophony of

Advocating for gender...

 So as a great physicist once said, there's these little upstream eddies of biology that create order in this rapid torrent of entropy. So as the universe dissipates energy,

What will humans look...

 there's all kinds of dangers earthquake catastrophic collapse of all torrents trucks GM pairs the end of the world as we know it

Doomsday Preppers

 Severe monsoon rains have transformed shallow rivers into lethal torrents.

Torrent