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“One of the things I did during my 17 years as a psychiatric social worker was go around and find people with mental crutches, and every time I found one, I kicked those goddamn crutches until they flew. You know what happened? Every single one of those people has been able to walk without the crutches better, in fact. Were they giving up anything intrinsically valuable? Just their irrational reliance upon superstitions and supernatural nonsense. Perhaps this sort of claptrap was good for the Stone Age, when people actually believed that if they prayed for rain they would get it.”

“People vote against their own interests that all the time. But when you do the polling in the U.S., it has gone from less than 50 percent who thought climate change was real to 70-odd percent. And if you listen to the Republicans in Congress, they used to say, "Oh, climate change doesn't exist." Then they switched to "Well, it exists, but it's not man-made," to "Well, I'm going to address the issue." Why? Because when they go home, the local constituent says, "Wait a second. What are you talking about? We just had a flood. We haven't had rain in a long time." They can't get away from it.”

People Long Real Home Waiting Interest Republican Rain Vote Climate Change Get Away Flood

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Surfing and music have always been two completely separate things in my life, and a lot of people, especially in the UK, don't really get surfing very much. They think it's the Californian dream. They're like, "Oh, so you're a surfer and you're this and that," and it's like, I go surfing because I like the outdoors. In England it's freezing cold, and it's usually dark and raining and it's the middle of winter, and you do it because it's invigorating. It's like going on a walk in some remote place on the planet. It's really - it's not very glamorous.”

People Thinking Dream Dark Cold Rain Winter Surfing Glamorous

Author:Ben Howard

“In the U.S., African- Americans, no matter what we do - when we sit in, when we freedom ride, when we kneel in, whatever it is, the initial response from the public tends to be overwhelmingly negative, because basically we're kind of raining on folks' parades. As time goes on, the Muhammad Ali's and all the people that raised those issues, they then become heroes later when people reflect on the courage they showed and the issues that they raised. And Donald Trump is in danger of being a more and more reviled figure as the years go on.”

People Kind Danger Hero Rain Negative Response Muhammad

Author:Van Jones

“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.”

“For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.”

People House Seeing Streets Rain Skins Folly Wet Remedy Rainy Day Swarms

Book:Utopia

Source: Utopia

“God is good for everybody. The sun shines on good people and bad people, and it rains on both, too. God doesn't choose rain only for bad people.”

People Sun Rain Shining Good People Bad People Sun Shines Shine On

Author:Mariano Rivera

“Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.”

People Humans Has Beens Certain Rain Clouds Behave More Time Rainy Day Human Knowledge

Author:Herbert Simon

“I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.”

People Ifs Two Ends Running Together Rain Confession Airports

Author:Taylor Swift

“People speak because they are afraid of silence. They speak mechanically whether aloud or to themselves. They are intoxicated by this vocal gruel that ensnares every object and every being. They talk about rain and fine weather; they talk about money, about love, about nothing. And even when they are talking about their most exalted love, they use words uttered a hundred times, threadbare phrases.”

People Use Speak Silence Talking Objects Fine Hundred Rain Weather Phrases Vocal Exalted Intoxicated Fine Weather

Author:Andreï Makine

“Well, sometimes love seems easy. Like..it's easy to love rain...and hawks. And it's easy to love wild plums...and the moon. But with people, seems like love's a hard thing to know. It gets all mixed up. I mean, you can love one person in one way and another person in another way. But how do you know you love the right one in every way?”

People Knows Way Wells Mean Persons Sometimes Hard Seems Easy Moon Rain One Way Do You Know Another Way Hard Things Like Love Hawks Plums Sometimes Love Love Rain

Book:Where the Heart Is

Source: Where the Heart Is

“In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day.”

Source: The lightning thief

“That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain.”

People Thinking Years Country Night Sound Walks Sun Quiet Late Rain Rivers Empty Passing Passings Hills Autumn Twilight Closets Coal Midnight Fog Mist Noon Dusk Cellars Attics Pantry

Book:THE OCTOBER COUNTRY

Source: THE OCTOBER COUNTRY

“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing," thought Francie, "something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you're blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you're alone - just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.”

People Thinking Men Littles Book Hard Strong Rain Hot Blue Complicated Coffee Cups Contentment Little Things Shelter Cigarette Someone You Love

Book:A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW

Source: A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW

“People talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can't see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain. Some are crawling with new purple hairs. And the buds are bulging like tumorous acne, and I can tell that something wet, and soft, and cold, and misshapen is about to be born. And I am turning into a vampire.”

People I Can Born Tree Hair Cold Spring Rain Vampire Brown Wet Purple Bud Crawling Acne Purple Hair

Author:Matthew Tobin Anderson

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”

People Ifs Thinking Rooms Rain Bottom Unrequited Love Hurricanes Alaska Unrequited Looking For Alaska Book Bunk Drizzle

Book:Looking for Alaska

Source: Looking for Alaska

“These people picked you up and played with you and then left you lying in the rain”

People Lying Left Rain

Author:Janet Fitch

“Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. And that's it you know, you never know what's round the corner. But it's all good. "If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain." Do you know which "philosopher" said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits.”

People Ifs Knows Want Said Bigs Life Is Rain Down And Series Rounds Philosopher Corners Pairs Do You Know Climbing Rainbow Trough

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in a cool swimming hole, but when it rains, they scatter.”

People Running Understood Rain Miles Holes Swimming Summertime Miles To Go

Author:Silas House

“He also tried to block the doorway when she left him. My mother ducked under his arm, ran to her car, and drove away. I remember thinking that this was somehow romantic, as it pinpointed the actual memory of my mother's departure, something you don't see a lot of in television. Real people don't slam doors without opening them five minutes later because it's raining and they forgot their umbrella. They don't stop dead in their tracks because they realize they're in love with their best friend.They don't say, "I'm leaving you, Jack," and fade to a paper towel commercial.”

“Singin' in the Rain was most excellent if you like movies where people burst into song and tap-dance. Which I do, though not as much as I like movies where people don't.”

People Ifs Song Rain Excellent Tap Dance Singin In The Rain

Book:Ruby Oliver 2: The Boy Book

Source: Ruby Oliver 2: The Boy Book

“Because people learn from their mistakes, Danger. Pain and failure are a natural part of life. It's kind of like a parent who watches their child fall down while learning to walk. Instead of coddling the child, you set them back on their feet and let them try again. They have to stumble before they can run. (Alexion) Do you really believe that we need to have our hearts ripped out? (Danger) A flower can't grow without rain. (Alexion) Too much rain and it drowns. (Danger) And yet the most beautiful of the lotus flowers are the ones that grow in the deepest mud. (Alexion)”

“If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.”

People Ifs Rain Hurricanes Drizzle

Author:John Green

“The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.”

Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

“I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low, when you might need a light jacket. Sometimes I'm the slush that sticks to the bottom of your work pants, but I can easily be the melting snowflakes clinging to your long lashes. I know that some people like: sunny and seventy-five, sunny and seventy-five, sunny and seventy-five, but you take me as I am and never forget to pack an umbrella.”

“But friends, those I wanted to please? There are so few, so few... and you're one of them. You... because you have such a gift for life. You grab hold of it with both hands. You move, you dance, you know how to make the rain and the sunshine in a home. You have this incredible gift for making people around you happy. You're so at ease, so at ease on this little planet.”

People Knows Littles Home Hands Wanted Moving Know How Planets Please Rain Incredibles Ease Sunshine

Book:Someone I Loved

Source: Someone I Loved

““Don't be offended, but you seem to be one of those people who just attract accidents like a magnet. So... try not to fall into the ocean or get run over or anything, all right?” He smiled crookedly. The helplessness had faded as he spoke. I glared at him. “I'll see what I can do,” I snapped as I jumped out into the rain. I slammed the door behind me with excessive force. He was still smiling as he drove away.”

People Trying Stills I Can Seems Running Fall Force Can Do Behinds Doors Ocean Rain Accidents Spokes Offended Helplessness Faded Magnet Still Smiling Excessive Force

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold streets Your warm body. In whatever room Your warm body. Among all the people Your absence The people who are always Not you. I have been easy with trees Too long. Too familiar with mountains. Joy has been a habit. Now Suddenly This rain.”

People Long Has Beens Body Joy Easy Rooms Gone Tree Streets Cold Habit Terrible Mountain Rain Defeat Warm Absence Familiar Gray Yellow Amber Your Absence

Author:Jack Gilbert

“Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.”

People Life Rain Messy

Author:Barbara Delinsky

“I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can't.”

People Ifs Feels I Can Ends Helping Wanted Pain Dark Too Much Pieces Goes On Rain Lonely Tired Glasses Ugly If I Could Boss Buddy I'm Tired Robins

Book:The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel

Source: The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel

“Just the way it never rains when you have an umbrella, you'll never run into people if you look fantastic. But go outside in pajamas, and you'll run into every ex you have.”

People Ifs Way Looks Running Rain Fantastic Exes Umbrella Pajamas

Book:Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

Source: Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“people run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.”

People Running Water Rain Bathtubs

Author:Charles Bukowski

“[T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient, and, no matter what interruptions occur, people so badly want to return to their lives and get on with them. A veneer of civilization descends quickly, like a shining rain. Dust is settled.”

People World Want Matter Return Civilization Normal Rain No Matter What Shining Everyday Dust Resilient Unimaginable Interruptions Unstoppable Veneer

Author:Lorrie Moore

“What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think it’s just the siteoppo. Beatrice wasn’t picked out, Juliet wasn’t picked out. You don’t pick out the rain that soaks you to a skin when you come out of a concert.”

People Ifs Thinking Life Middle Picks Rain Skins Bones Concerts Splits Lightning Swear Bolts Marrying Juliet Lightning Bolts Hopscotch Marrying Her

Author:Julio Cortazar

“You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the letters are meaningless, and all you hear is the rain. You would like to play the piano, but the rain comes to sit alongside and play an accompaniment. And then the dry weather returns, which is to say there is steam and bright light. People age quickly.”

People Doe Book Play Light Age Return Rain Letters Weather Piano Dry Meaningless Steam Bright Lights

Author:Sándor Márai

“Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return. All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return? He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?”

People Want Giving Should Littles Persons Return Pure Ocean Rain Clouds Selfish Unconditional Love Unconditional Reciprocity Being Selfish

Author:Alan Lightman

“SEASONS PASSED, FALL AND WINTER and spring and summer. Leaves blew in through the open door of Lucius Clarke’s shop, and rain, and the green outrageous hopeful light of spring. People came and went, grandmothers and doll collectors and little girls with their mothers. Edward Tulane waited. The seasons turned into years. Edward Tulane waited. He repeated the old doll’s words over and over until they wore a smooth groove of hope in his brain: Someone will come; someone will come for you.”

Source: The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection

“I like rain and mist. I've never understood why people exclaim over bright skies and bushels of glaring sunshine.”

People Sky Understood Rain Sunshine Mist

Book:The Folk Keeper

Source: The Folk Keeper

“... everything seemed to him a uniform shade of gray- even the people! He had been unable to believe it could rain so much in one place, and so unceasingly. The damp had seemed to come up from the floors and into his bones, so that he'd thought he would eventually sprout mold, in the manner of a tree. "You do get used to it," he said "Even if sometimes you feel as if you out to be able to be wrung out like a washrag." p 311”

People Ifs Feels Believe Said Sometimes Able Used Tree Rain Come Up Bones Gray Shade Uniforms Mold Damp Sprouts

Author:Cassandra Clare

“If you want to coach you have three rules to follow to win. One, surround yourself with people who can't live without football. I've had a lot of them. Two, be able to recognize winners. They come in all forms. And, three, have a plan for everything. A plan for practice, a plan for the game. A plan for being ahead, and a plan for being behind 20-0 at half, with your quarterback hurt and the phones dead, with it raining cats and dogs and no rain gear because the equipment man left it at home.”

“In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin and guide of its contours and gradients and of all the lives - the plants and small creatures, and the culture - that evolved here. That was always here to be seen, of course, and the recognition has forced itself, in one form or other, upon people in every part of the world who have been directly involved with the growing of living things. The gardener who ignores it is soon left with no garden.”

People World Has Beens Form Culture Courses Left Water Growing Involved Creatures Rain Garden Rivers Plant Guides Recognition Regions Testament Living Things Gardener Small Creatures

Author:W. S. Merwin

“Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously much more than that - or we wouldn't still be talking about it in 2009. People of all ages and colors came together in the fields of Max Yasgur's farm.”

People Stills Age Together Talking Crazy Havens Fields Color Rain Dancing Farms Mud Festivals Hippie Max Woodstock

Author:Richie Havens

“Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.”

People Opinion Sea Rain Flow Showers High Places

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will never be used, ignoring the problems of people in this country and around the world, being one of the worst environmental violators on earth, standing against any sort of viable programs to protect the world's forests or to cut down on acid rain or the global warming or ozone depletion. We can ignore human rights violations in other countries, or we can take these things on as true leaders ought to and accept the inspiring challenge of America for the future.”

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep... Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”

“The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their "vital interests" are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the "sanctity" of human life, or the "conscience" of the civilized world.”

“Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human needs if one billion people starve while another billion have excess. It would be more efficient to distribute resources so that at least vital needs were met everywhere. Otherwise, for example, if kids are starving somewhere, dad goes out to slash and burn the rain forest to feed them - and so would I if my kids were dying. And this kind of destruction is everyone's problem, because we live in the same ecosphere.”

“I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. ... I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon. ... When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there. ... People have told me songs I've written have changed their life. That's remarkable. That keeps your faith.”

“Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people, 'Fire and Rain' speaks to them in that way.”

People Way Writing Song Speak Fire Rain Casts Myth Songwriting

Author:James Taylor

“['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably couldn't now, is that I didn't have any sense that anyone would hear it. I started writing the song while I was in London...and I was totally unknown.... So I assumed that they would never be heard. I could just write or say anything I wanted. Now I'm very aware, and I have to deal with my stage fright and my anxiety about people examining or judging it. The idea that people will pass judgment on it is not a useful thought.”

People Writing Ideas Reason Wanted Song Deals Fire Heard Stage Judging Anxiety Judgment Rain London Songwriting Say Anything Examining Fright Stage Fright Useful Thoughts

Author:James Taylor

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