"At noon, you walk across a river. It is dry, with not this much water: it is just stones and pebbles. But it rains cats and dogs in the mountains, and towards afternoon, the water descends wildly and she ravages all in its path, the madwoman. That is how death comes. Without our expecting it, and we cannot do a thing against it, brothers."

-- Jacques Roumain

#Dog Quotes #Brother Quotes #Rain Quotes

“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”
“Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.”

Source : George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”
“Time after time, on matters great and small, we are still standing on the sidelines, mutely accepting what is decided elsewhere instead of raising our voices and making our own choices. Scotland's much vaunted partnership of Jonah and the whale.”

Source : Quoted in Michael Russell (ed) Stop the World: The Autobiography of Winnie Ewing (2004).
“I believe that not much happens of any significance when we're in our comfort zone.”
“Unsuccessful headlines were not written without a strong appeal, but it was the wrong appeal for that product and that audience.”
“When you got a group like G-Unit... we sold millions of records, we got a lot of egos.”

Source : "Tony Yayo says g-Unit isn't accepting game's apology" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. July 16, 2009.
“Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.”
“General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over the same line, I will kill them all before they reach my line.”

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