"everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between "good weather" and "bad weather" is a fiction, that we need rain as surely as we need sun."

-- Bill McKibben

#Rain Quotes #Weather Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.”
“If anyone really thinks that I've ruined [sexual assault] reporting for women, I'm terribly sorry. And if anybody really thinks I'm clamouring for fame on the back of women who were assaulted, that's terrible.”
“Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.”
“The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.”
“When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the fearful question whether inscrutable Destiny, perhaps for reasons unknown to us poor mortals, did not, with eternal and immutable resolve, desire the final victory of this little nation.”
“Success in love isn't about looks, it's about attitude.”
“At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.”

Source : Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.54, BoD – Books on Demand
“The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.”

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