Rain Quotes
[to Latika] I will wait for you, 5 pm everyday at the train station.
Vikas Swarup
The seers of old had fully restrained selves, and were austere. Having abandoned the five strands of sensual pleasures, they practiced their own welfare. The brahmans had no cattle, no gold, no wealth. They had study as their wealth and grain. They guarded the holy life as their treasure.
V. G. Siddhartha
Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries, the offspring of the sun and sea.
Yvon Chouinard
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It was a rainy day when I crossed over the Hakone Barrier, and all the mountains were veiled in clouds.
Matsuo Bashō
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And that's when you realize that God gave you a penis and a brain and only enough blood to run one at a time.
Robin Williams
When Spring came on with fresh delight
To cheer the soul, and charm the sight,
While every easy breezes, softer rain
And warmer suns salute the plain.
Fanny Parnell
I see the world for what it is, beyond the white and the black / The way the government downplays historical facts / 'Cuz the United States sponsored the rise of the Third Reich / Just like the CIA trained terrorists to the fight / Build bombs and sneak box cutters onto a flight
Immortal Technique
Yet God hath not only granted these faculties, by which we may bear every event without being depressed or broken by it, but like a good prince and a true father, hath placed their exercise above restraint, compulsion, or hindrance, and wholly within our own control.
Epictetus
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Russian soldiers are fighting for the money, Ukrainian soldiers, Ukrainian citizens are fighting for the future of our children - and you feel the difference between the money and the children.
Vitali Klitschko
By extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, one may thus likewise not err from what is right.
Confucius
The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action.
Socrates Sandor
When it rains, you put up an umbrella. That is the secret of success in business and management.
Konosuke Matsushita
... by virtue of what right
Have I never once tended field or tree?
My government-pay is three hundred tons;
At the year's end I have still grain in hand.
Thinking of this, secretly I grew ashamed.
Bai Juyi
for me will be five hundred years of catching trains and two thousand years of remembering names.
Huang Ziping
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Socrates (Brazilian footballer)
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Australia ran a certification and training program for building a workforce that also certified the installers as inspectors. This made the process of purchasing and installing solar in Australia simple and doable in a matter of days.
Cleo Wade