#rain

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#act #custom #generally #inclinations #ingrained

I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#become #been #different #easy #hard

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#drops #joy #like #pierced #rain

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#grain #like #mountains #remove #will

You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo. ↗

— John Abercrombie

#get #i #imperfect #improvising #jazz

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#displays #expression #first #individuality #natural

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#committed #completely #could #day #every

I'm being trained to shake the bon-bon appropriately. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#being #i #shake #trained

We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position. ↗

— Peter Akinola

#come #continue #faith #fire #insist

I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I don't know whether they were for television or not. You know how little I know about cameras. ↗

— June Allyson

#cameras #how #i #know #little