#rain

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #rain




It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.


Ziyi Zhang


#after #chinese #dance #dancer #disappear

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.


Shirin Ebadi


#defy #fear #how #human #hunger

If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable.


Christopher Hitchens


#autonomy #bahrain #iraq #iraq-war #kurdish-people

It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I'm probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now.


Gillian Anderson


#brains #coming #dead #focused #funny

The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.


John Ashcroft


#especially #far #far less #less #makes

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.


William Langewiesche


#faraway #forms #little #many #place

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.


Charles Barkley


#end of the tunnel #light #sometimes #train #tunnel

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.


Thomas Hooker


#discerned #godly #graces #least #may

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.


Van Wyck Brooks


#based #few #ignorance #imposed #knowledge

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!


Laurie Halse Anderson


#artistic-training #education #liberal-arts #art