"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."

-- Silas House

#Running Quotes #Rain Quotes #Swimming Quotes

“You're a master on blues piano. The real deal.”
“I do go back to Brazil once a year. I miss my family.”

Source : Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.
“A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines; and little sins do mischief to the tender heart. These little sins burrow in the soul, and make it so full of that which is hateful to Christ, that he will hold no comfortable fellowship and communion with us. A great sin cannot destroy a Christian, but a little sin can make him miserable....”
“I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.”
“Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.”

Source : Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”
“A person who is really saved by Grace does not need to be told that he is under solemn obligations to serve Christ. The new life within him tells him that. Instead of regarding it as a burden, he gladly surrenders himself, body, soul, and spirit, to the Lord.”
“Every handsome man had a flaw. It was just her luck that in William's case that flaw was lunacy.”
“It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.”

Source : "Democrats and Republicans Walk Fine Line in Senate Races" by Elizabeth Hartfield, abcnews.go.com. May 19, 2012.

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