"Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross."

-- Edith Sitwell

#Rain Quotes #Fall Quotes #Loss Quotes

“Sometimes, a person who likes your work and a person who donâ€™t will show up within milliseconds of each other to let you know how they feel. One does not need to cancel out the other, positively or negatively; if youâ€™re proud of the work, and you enjoyed the work, that is whatâ€™s important.”
“When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.”
“I've just been playing the Trout Quintet on the phonograph. Listening to the andantino makes me want to be a trout myself. You can't help rejoicing and laughing, however moved or sad you feel, when you see the springtime clouds in the sky, the budding branches, moved by the wind, in the bright early sunlight. I'm really looking forward to the spring again. In that piece of Schubert's you can positively feel and smell the breeze and hear the birds and the whole of creation shouting for joy.”
“It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.”
“As I have discovered again and again, things are never as bad (or as good) as they seem at the time.”

Source : Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.11, Pan Macmillan
“An old medical friend gave me some excellent practical advice. He said: "You will have for some time to go much oftener down steps than up steps. Never mind! win the good opinions of washerwomen and such like, and in time you will hear of their recommendations of you to the wealthier families by whom they are employed." I did so, and found it succeed as predicted.”

Source : William Crawford Williamson (1896). “Reminiscences of a Yorkshire Naturalist”
“All Iraqis should live under one roof and for one goal.”
“If thou canst believe, all things are possible.”

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