Worshipers Of The Rain Quotes & Sayings

I think that for humans, the most regrettable of omissions, along with unshed tears and unexamined lives, is untold stories, the things not shared, the lost opportunity to be honest about oneself and tender toward others. — Martha M. Moravec

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. — Ken Buck

I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel. — Eugene McCarthy

Your thoughts are as free as any bird — Michael Jackson

Even the gods are moved by the voice of entreaty. — Ovid

I was standing alone with him when she burst impetuously through the door, tall and wearing a rain-cape on top of a queen's costume, a forgotten crown on her head.

She directed some rapid words at him. He began to tremble all over and dropped my hand from under his arm. Vera seized me cruelly by the arm and led me off... She led me through murky, dusty expanses, between strange machinery and constructions, through valleys and mountains and past a precarious wood to her dressing-room. And she still held me cruelly by the arm. There she slammed the door shut, rudely chasing away some handsome women with the amorous eyes of worshipers.

I do not recall her words. It was as though she were all aflame. She kissed my hands and I realized then that she had seen only me that evening, that she had performed for only me, that she loved me and that this was all such madness.

("Thirty-Three Abominations") — Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal

Lust is the devil's counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust. — Dwight L. Moody

The way we construct consciousness is to tell the story of ourselves to ourselves, the story of who we believe we are. I feel that a really public shaming or humiliation is a conflict between the person trying to write his own narrative and society trying to write a different narrative for the person. One story tries to overwrite the other. And so to survive you have to own your story. Or . . .' Mike looked at me, '. . . you write a third story. You react to the narrative that's been forced upon you.' He paused. 'You have to find a way to disrespect the other narrative,' he said. 'If you believe it, it will crush you.' I — Jon Ronson

I think that the book in some ways is the most interesting from our own present standpoint, particularly when we want to think about the way the internet is changing us. — Nicholas G. Carr

Knowledge cannot be maintained without character. — Raheel Farooq

The only job you have in life is to recognize and honor your personal legend — Paulo Coelho

We are what we repeatively do. Success is not an action but a habit. — Aristotle.

Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension. — John Templeton