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Source: Flame and Shadow

“A face at the window, a tap on the pane, who is it that wants me tonight in the rain?”

“Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.”

Fall Battle Rain Extraordinary Total War Great Battle

Source: Plutarch's Lives

“Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less; Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.”

Needs Looks Pain Heaven Tears Sorrow Rain Madness Harm Pity Torture Bitterness Dread Distress Harsh Look At Me Anguish Woe Discomfort

Book:Troilus and Cressida

Source: Troilus and Cressida

“The summer day was spoiled with fitful storm; At night the wind died and the soft rain dropped; With lulling murmur, and the air was warm, And all the tumult and the trouble stopped.”

Night Trouble Air Wind Summer Rain Died Warm Storm Spoiled Tumult Summer Days

Book:The Poems of Celia Thaxter

Source: The Poems of Celia Thaxter

“Death was not. I lived in a simple drowse:Hands and hair moved through a dream of wakening blossoms.Rain sweetened the cave and the dove still called;The flowers leaned on themselves, the flowers in hollows;And love, love sang toward.”

Stills Dream Hands Simple Flower Hair Rain And Love Moved Caves Dove

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“All the posters on the walls All the leaflets in the streets Are mutilated, destroyed or run in rain, Their words blotted out with tears, Skins peeling from their bodies In the victorious hurricane.”

Body Running Streets Tears Wall Rain Skins Destroyed Hurricanes Posters Peeling

Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

“Man's own form in space - his body - was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery - because he was hungry and overworked and went to a horrid place called home late at night in the rain, and his bones ached and his head was heavy.”

Men Home Body Form Night Space Late Rain Prison Misery Heavy Bones Hungry Private Prisons

Author:Willem de Kooning

“I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood - what then?, I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower of slanting rain.”

Ifs Want Country Sides Failing Land Understood Rain Native Showers Native Land

Book:Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy

Source: Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy

“I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.”

People Thinking Want Giving Reason Happens Father Water Economy Picks Rain Good Things Things Happen Crops Rain Water Good Rain

Author:Benazir Bhutto

“He that distributeth not That which he hath received-- His food, his drink, his sustenance-- Unto devotee, brahman, beggar, wayfarer-- Such a low man as he, they say, is like Unto a lack of rain.”

Men Giving Drink Lows Rain Charity Beggar Sustenance Devotee Brahman

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Well let there be sunlight, let there be rain Let the brokenhearted love again Sherry, we can run with our arms open before the tide.”

Wells Running Arms Rain Tides Sunlight Love Again Brokenhearted Sherry

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain.”

Should Made Boys Blood Rain Soldier Complaining Flood Mud Jolly Wretchedness

Author:Siegfried Sassoon

“A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.”

Knows Men Giving Use Learning Rain Clouds

Author:George Pope Morris

“When I try to describe how I feel when you hold me, I get butterflies, I hear lullabies, it's hard to explain -- like the scent of a rose or the sound of the rain. It's too precious and too wonderful to give it a name.”

Giving Feels Trying Hard Names Sound Wonderful Rain Rose Butterfly Scent Hold Me Lullaby I Get Butterflies

Author:Christina Aguilera

“I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area.”

Thinking Art Tree Rain Areas Clouds Giants Native Native American Pacific Pacific Northwest

Author:Kyle MacLachlan

“It's hot rain and humid days and broken thermostats. It's screaming and raging steam engines and wanting to take your clothes off just to feel a breeze. It's the kind of kiss that makes you realize oxygen is overrated.”

Feels Kind Realizing Broken Kissing Clothes Rain Hot Rage Engines Breeze Oxygen Steam Overrated Steam Engines

Author:Tahereh Mafi

“It's 2 o'clock in the morning and I just can't sleep Outside the rain is pourin', I'm lonely as can be Maybe 2night'll be different than the nights before I need 2 feel someone beside me, I can't be alone no more”

Needs Feels I Can Different Night Sleep Morning Rain Lonely Clock Can't Sleep I'm Lonely

Author:Prince

“Now I love to feel that warm southern rain, Just to hear it fall is the sweetest sounding thing. And to see it fall on your simple country dress It's like heaven to me I must confess.”

Feels Country Fall Heaven Simple Rain Dresses Warm Southern Sweetest

Author:Ben Harper

“Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet.”

Knows Heart Littles War Hard Games Dark Kindness Rain Soldier Cards Sunshine Cigarette Bullets Bent Insects Trenches

Author:Conor Oberst

“For a heart without love is a song with no words And a tune to which no one is listening So your heart must give love and you'll find that You shine like rain on the leaves you'll be glistening.”

Giving Heart Song Love Is Listening Rain Shining Tunes Without Love

Author:Andy Partridge

“Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake”

Black Blood Land Grew Rain Good Things Colour Wicked Cake Harvest Icing

Author:Andy Partridge

“To fire a bullet into the heart or brains of one's fellow man even a fellow man striving to do the same to you creates what might be called an unassimilable memory: a memory that floats on daily life the way an oil stain floats on rainwater. Stir the rain barrel, scatter the oil into countless drops, disperse it all you like, but it will not mix; and eventually the slick comes back, as loathsomely intact as it ever was.”

Men Way Heart Might Memories Brain Fire Rain Fellows Strive Oil Daily Life Bullets Floats Fellow Man Stains Barrels Slick Rainwater

Book:Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

“In Moscow, dim and green under the summer rain, columns of armour were waiting in the side-roads off the long avenue from Vnukovo airport. Tanks from the Taman Division stood beneath the dripping trees around Moscow University with their field kitchens and command trucks. This was not a new sight to me: the Soviet tanks had rested like that beneath the trees of the parks in Prague, late in another August twenty-three years before. Now they had invaded and crushed one more country -- their own.”

“Thou slanting rain! Thou Hebe of the Skies, That pours out drink to Earth; thou faithful wife That with moist tears embraces her prone lord. Thou mist intensified; thou double dew That drowns the drought, that heals the parched and burnt -- Thou resurrection rain.”

Earth Lord Wife Sky Tears Drink Rain Embrace Heal Faithful Resurrection Mist Dew Drought Faithful Wife

Book:Cloudrifts at Twilight

Source: Cloudrifts at Twilight

“Reviving Spring, a toast to thy fresh lips! Thy blush is music, and e'en heaven lurks In thy thick perfumed hair that hangs about Thy flowered shoulders like enchanted rain; Thy sigh is song and thy soft breath a balm, Dispelling death -- soft loosing his cold grip, Unravelling darkness in the heart of pain, As o'er dank waters rings the laugh of dawn.”

Heart Pain Song Heaven Water Darkness Laughing Hair Cold Spring Rain Breaths Lips Rings Shoulders Dawn Thick Sigh Toasts Enchanted Dank Dispelling

Book:Cloudrifts at Twilight

Source: Cloudrifts at Twilight

“When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet... When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world.”

Thinking World Want Looks Bigs Dies Building Goes On Rain Diets Maps Wet Small Things Leather Gloves Wanting To Die I Want To Die

Author:Kobo Abe

“Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system. Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity. Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs. The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.”

Heart Kind Doe Turns Grows Grief Rain Warm Snow Weather Ice Settling Stomach Candle Thick Lungs Temperature Mist Frost Liver Beacons Lighthouse Arteries Bowels Humidity

Book:Nocturne: A Play

Source: Nocturne: A Play

“I saw the sunlight in a leafy place, Bathing itself in liquid green and amber-- Where every flower had tears hid in its petals, And every leaf was lovely with the rain.”

Saws Tears Flower Rain Green Lovely Sunlight Leafs Liquid Petals Amber Bathing

Book:The Leaf Burners: And Other Poems

Source: The Leaf Burners: And Other Poems

“When it is peace, then we may view again With new-won eyes each other's truer form And wonder. Grown more loving-kind and warm We'll grasp firm hands and laugh at the old pain When it is peace. But until peace, the storm The darkness and the thunder and the rain.”

Kind May Hands Eye Pain Form Peace Views Wonder Darkness Laughing Rain Warm Storm Firm Thunder

Book:Marlborough and Other Poems

Source: Marlborough and Other Poems

“Natural thunder heralds the wetness of fresh water high clouds to quench the thirst of fields gone dry and parched, a messenger of blessed rain, but this was as dry as hell must be. My distraught perception refused to believe it, because of the insane suddenness with which it sounded, swelled and hit, and how casually it came to murder my child.”

Believe Children Water Natural Gone Hell Fields Perception Rain Murder Blessed Clouds Insane My Children Dry Thirst Thunder Messengers Quench Fresh Water Distraught Wetness

Author:Anna Akhmatova

“Rain is disagreeable, but snow is as much part of the mountain as are sunshine and clear skies.”

Clear Sky Mountain Rain Snow Sunshine Disagreeable Clear Skies

Author:Gaston Rebuffat

“A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.”

Rain Investing Bankers Umbrella

Author:Mark Twain

“My soul is possessed by this devil my new name is Rain Man.”

Men Soul Names Devil Rain My Soul Possessed

Author:Eminem

“Tomorrow is our final show. That is unless it rains, and then there will be a rain delay. We'll probably make it up in a doubleheader around Labor Day.”

Shows Tomorrow Rain Labor Finals Delay Labor Day

Author:David Letterman

“The rain is giving much needed relief to California's crops. By that I mean 'marijuana.'”

Giving Mean Needed Rain California Relief Marijuana Crops

Author:Craig Ferguson

“How come it rains every Hall of Fame weekend? They need to move it to a different weekend.”

Needs Different Moving Fame Rain Halls Weekend Yankees New York Yankees Hall Of Fame

Author:Yogi Berra

“All man has to do is cooperate with the big forces, the sun, the rain, the growing urge. Seeds sprout, stems grow, leaves spread in the sunlight. Man plants, weeds, cultivates and harvests. It sounds simple, and it is simple, with the simplicity of great truths.”

Men Bigs Force Grows Sound Simple Sun Growing Rain Plant Simplicity Spread Seeds Urges Weed Sunlight Stem Harvest Sprouts

Author:Hal Borland

“The more we study mind and matter scientifically the more we see that all things follow a natural sequence, a sequence as liable to work for our disadvantage as for our advantage. It flows like the water of a river, it falls like rain, it is as impartial as the sea. It is as innocent of malice as it is of compassion.”

Source: Llewelyn Powys: A Selection from His Writings

“In England when you make a movie even the weather is against you. In Hollywood the weatherman gets a shooting schedule from all the major studios and then figures out where he can fit in a little rain without upsetting Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer too much.”

Littles Funny Too Much Figures Fit Majors Rain Hollywood England Studios Weather Shooting California Upset Schedules Metro Weathermen Mayer

Author:Bob Hope

“You won't find one fish in a million that has enough sense to come in when it rains.”

Enough Millions Sea Rain Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing

Book:One Minute, Please

Source: One Minute, Please

“Fishes and tales And a fisherman's daughter Walks in the rain, She walks to the water To the sea.”

Water Walks Sea Daughter Rain Rivers Fishes Tales Boat Lakes Fishing Fisherman

Author:Daniel Lanois

“It would be a miracle of God if it happened. I know it... If God wills it, the summer rains will fill the wadis... and the salmon will run the river. And then my countrymen... all classes and manner of men-will stand side by side and fish for the salmon. And their natures, too, will be changed. They will feel the enchantment of this silver fish... and then when talk turns to what this tribe said or that tribe did... then someone will say, Let us arise, and go fishing.”

“It's all about the climate. I had a long discussion about it when I went to Scotland to see Andy Roxburgh. I worked with a Scottish youth side and had them do the same drills I would do in Italy. I realised that, between the wind, the rain and the cold, there was no way they could do it. How can you possibly teach anybody anything in those conditions? To me, it's pretty obvious and it explains why Brazilians are more technical than Europeans and, in Italy, the further south you go the more technical they are.”

Way Long Sides Teach Conditions Youth Football Wind Cold Rain South Climate Obvious Managers Soccer Discussion Scotland Realised Chairman Scottish Drills

Author:Fabio Capello

“How ironic, to be my last game that I ever played would be against Dan in a Super Bowl. The thing I always was afraid of was playing in a Super Bowl when it was raining. I can't throw a wet ball.”

I Can Would Be Lasts Games Sports Rain Balls Ironic Wet Bowls Super Bowl

Author:John Elway

“The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.”

Giving Christian Fall Church Atheism Rain Miracle Positive Atheism Monsters Impression Christian Church Clovers

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures

“Some people might think Rain is the superstar or super successful, but I am someone who always sets new goals and tries to accomplish them.”

People Thinking Trying Might Goal Successful Rain Accomplish Superstar New Goal

Author:Rain

“Take rainwater kept for several years, and mix a sextarius of this water with a pound of honey The whole is exposed to the sun for 40 days, and then left on a shelf near the fire. If you have no rain water, then boil spring water.”

Ifs Years Whole Left Water Sun Fire Spring Rain Pounds Honey Exposed Shelves Rain Water Spring Water Rainwater

Author:Columella

“You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.”

“Yes, in baseball when the team stinks, you fire the manager. But you don't fire him because it rains. And you don't let the opposing team choose a new manager for you. And you don't fire him between innings. And replace him with a Viennese weightlifter.”

Fire Team Rain Baseball Managers Opposing Stink

Author:Bill Maher

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