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“See thou, whatsoever be thy name -- whether Fate, Life, or Devil! I cast thee down my gauntlet, I challenge thee to battle! Men of faint heart may bow before thy mysterious power, thy face of stone may inspire them with dread, in thy unbroken silence they may discern the birth of calamity and an impending avalanche of woe. But I am daring and strong, and I challenge thee to battle! Let us draw our swords, and join our bucklers, and rain such blows upon each other's crests as shall cause the very earth to shake again! Ha! Come forth and fight with me!”

“Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.”

Fall Battle Rain Extraordinary Total War Great Battle

Book:Plutarch's Lives

Source: Plutarch's Lives

“S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth of invention: At night when your soldiers are praying ceaselessly for less rain and more underwear my soldiers make underwear out of rain. These poems seesaw between despair and delight but delight is winning the battle. Smith is a somersaulting tightrope walker of a poet and her poems will make you look at anything and everything with new eyes: For days I tried to rub the new freckle // off my hand until I realized what it was / and began to grant it its sovereignty.”

“Why is it that all battles are fought in the middle of the night, in downpouring rain, and at the corners of four different maps?”

Different Night Four Middle Battle Rain Corners Maps Middle Of The Night

Author:George S. Patton

“The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said Allah God has come to fight the battle of justice for the Black man and woman of America and it is He who is plaguing America with the disasters of unusual rain, hail, snow, and soon earthquakes. So if the Black man and woman and the Native Americans, or Indians, are not in the equation of those running for the high office of the Presidency of the United States, if we are not in the equation for justice, then none of these candidates can save America from the Wrath of Allah (God).”

“They sat it "Rains Blood" at scenes of battle... you truly...make blood rain”

Blood Scene Battle Rain Sat

Author:Nobuhiro Watsuki

“A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my head touching the soft tendrils of a jasmine which grew there in a constant battle with a wisteria, and I thought of what lay before me throughout the world and throughout time, and resolved to go about it delicately and reverently, learning that from each thing which would take me best to another.”

Source: The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned

“During our lives...we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope.”

Trying Littles Hands Fighting Our Lives Battle Rain Setback

Author:Lance Armstrong

“Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won”

Life Done Play Three Lost Battle Rain Witch Lightning Thunder Macbeth Play Macbeth Key Thunder And Lightning Macbeth Theme

Book:The Tragedies of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: The Tragedies of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)

“There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.”

Play Three Heaven Mystery Terrible Battle Thousand Rain Blind Shining Snow Poetic Towers Fog Hostile Mist Highlights Swans Skyscraper Tresses

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle.... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably.”

Men Wells Seems Today Fire Planets Serious Battle Pages Men And Women Rain Intelligent Dialogue Noise Prose Endeavor Intelligent Man

Author:John Cheever