Drought Band Quotes & Sayings

To make it into a discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it. — Alain De Botton

The way the rain falls then rises back into the clouds only to fall again reminds me of love. — Sara Secora

In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue. — George Orwell

He said that some people can live from birth to death and have no more thoughts in their heads about the reasons for living than a beetle. But that we were different, he and I. We needed more than a clod of dirt to make our rising up and lying down worth something. — Kathleen Kent

The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards. — Lynne Truss

As legal scholar David Cole has observed, "The Court has imposed nearly insurmountable barriers to persons challenging race discrimination at all stages of the criminal justice system."92 The barriers are so high that few lawsuits are even filed, notwithstanding shocking and indefensible racial disparities. — Michelle Alexander

I just want to go play, go win, What's going to happen is what's going to happen. I'm not worried too much about it. — Marc-Andre Fleury

Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings. — Mahatma Gandhi

It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is only the people who have to stop to be washed and made clean, who must necessarily lose the race. And I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance — Thomas Huxley

Polypro wicks away the sweat. Cotton absorbs it. Ergo, cotton is for suckers — Edmund Hillary