Rainy Day Quotes - Page 8

• There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.

  Galt Niederhoffer

  Summer, Depressing, Weather

  Galt Niederhoffer (2008). “The Romantics”, p.9, Macmillan

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• There are two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.

  Rachel Simon

  Sadness, Two, Kind

  Rachel Simon (2011). “The Story of Beautiful Girl”, p.189, Hachette UK

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• Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from beneath my feet. It chills my spirits like a rainy day, and all I can do is draw the curtains and cry into my pillow.

  Margaret George

  Betrayal, Wind, Feet

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• Nothing stays the same it all gets crushed. It all gets broken. It all passes with time. Only the moment you're in has any meaning." "There are things that stand the test of time, there are things that last. Like love." "Love theres nothing more fragile or ephereal. Love is like fire on a rainy day: you've got to spend all your time protecting it, feeding it, tending it because if you don't it goes out." "There are some loves that last." "No, what lasts is the pain that comes after love.

  Guillaume Musso

  Pain, Love Is, Like Love

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• He looked like the sort of person who would tell you that he did not have an umbrella to lend you when he actually had several and simply wanted to see you get soaked.

  Daniel Handler

  Umbrella, Wanted, Persons

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• Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.

  J. Paul Getty

  Money, Business, Successful

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• Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Funny, Inspiring

  Khalil Gibran (2015). “A Tear And A Smile - Parables, Stories, and Poems of Khalil Gibran”, p.22, Editora Dracaena

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• Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.

  P. T. Barnum

  Money, Wealth, Knows

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.53, Applewood Books

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• The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

  Theodore White

  Lying, Rain, Night

  1969 In the New York Times, 5 Jan.

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• The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

  Lucretius

  Motivational, Wisdom, Stay Strong

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• Colours shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only.

  Haruki Murakami

  Morning, Rain, Yellow

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 08, 2015

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• English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.

  Maureen Johnson

  Rain, Stones, Slick

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• For the first time in over a decade, your state government is doing what you do every day at home-spending what it takes in and saving for a rainy day.

  Tate Reeves

  Home, Government, Saving

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• Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.

  Joshua Slocum

  Party, Rain, Cities

  Joshua Slocum (2005). “Sailing Alone around the World”, p.95, Shambhala Publications

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• Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.

  Alan Parker

  Rain, Film, Fine

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.

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• Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his brothers and sisters to share the find, Richard J. 'Foster has 'found' the spiritual disciplines that the modern world has stored away and forgot, and has excitedly called us to celebrate them. For they are, as he shows us, the instruments of joy, the way into mature Christian spirituality and abundant life.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Christian, Spiritual, Brother

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• I love playing rock music, man. You give me a guitar in my hands, and I go out there, and, for me, it's like...you know, some dudes like hunting, fishing, going out and playing ball in the backyard with their buddies on a rainy day. I like being out with my buddies playing rock guitar. That's what I love to do.

  Robby Takac

  Men, Hunting, Rocks

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• You must learn to save first and spend afterwards.

  H. John Poole

  Firsts, Rainy

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• You never know: rain, sleet, hail, snow,
  See you gotta accept that's how things go.
  Prepare for the rainy day, or the sun's glow,
  But there's clouds movin' in and the clouds gonna blow.

  Q-Tip

  Rain, Rap, Blow

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• On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Doe, Lonesome

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• One of the better ways to simplify our lives is to follow the counsel we have so often received to live within our income, stay out of debt, and save for a rainy day. We should practice and increase our habits of thrift, industry, economy, and frugality. Members of a well-managed family do not pay interest; they earn it.

  L. Tom Perry

  Practice, Debt, Pay

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• Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of a tenement doorway on a rainy day, for her countenance was long, vacant, and weakly lighted, a passage for the gentle transports and miseries of the poor.

  John Cheever

  Husband, Dark, Hair

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• Time is a resource that is non-renewable and non-transferable. You cannot store it, slow it up, hold it up, divide it up or give it up. You can’t hoard it up or save it for a rainy day—when it’s lost it is unrecoverable. When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Giving, Remember, Resurrection

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• ...a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.

  Vikas Swarup

  Clouds, Monsoons, Persons

  Vikas Swarup (2005). “Q & A: A Novel”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• We call upon priesthood bearers to store sufficient so that you and your family can weather the vicissitudes of life. Please see to it that those entrusted to your watchcare receive these two pamphlets entitled All Is Safely Gathered In. Exhort them to prepare now for rainy days ahead.

  Keith B. McMullin

  Weather, Two, Stores

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