"When it's not always raining there'll be days like this. When there's no one complaining there'll be days like this. When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch. Well my mama told me there'll be days like this."

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Source : Song: Days Like This, Album: Days Like This

Van Morrison

#Rain Quotes #Fall Quotes #Complaining Quotes

“No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world.”

Source : "The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation expands its sanitation programme" by Liz Ford, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2011.
“Purifying and sealing by the Holy Spirit of Promise constitute the culminating steps in the process of being born again.”
“Don't boo people! Don't boo! Be more specific! Like, 'WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT?! I HATE THAT! I HATE IT!'”
“But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.”
“The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.”
“It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction”

Source : Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.263, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
“Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.”
“What I mean by context is worldview - having the ancient Israelite or first-century Jew in your head as you read. How would an ancient Israelite or first-century Jew read the Bible - what would they be thinking in terms of its meaning? The truth is that if we put one of those people into a small group Bible study and asked them what they thought about a given passage meant, their answer would be quite a bit different in many cases than anything the average Christian would think. They belonged to the world that produced the Bible, which is the context the Bible needs to be understood by.”

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