Gautama Buddha Quotes

If there be one righteous person, the rain falls for his sake.

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• I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Wind

• The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Rain
  • Short
  • Forest

• We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• If we see a sad rain, it doesn't mean the rain is sad, but it means we see it. That's an easily dismissible kind of projection. But what I'm struggling to say, is that we take that rain in through our own hearts and emotions and senses and skin, and all those filters have an impact.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Sad
  • Rain
  • Impact

• I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Trying
  • Day
  • Golf

• My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Looks
  • Rain
  • Face

• People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Dog
  • Rain

• People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Children
  • True

• A little rain will fillThe lily's cup which hardly moists the field.

  

  Rain
  • Rain

• I'm flat on the floor, with my head down low, where the sky can't rain on me anymore.

  

  Carrie Underwood
  • Sky
  • Rain

• The poet walked alone in a cold late rain,And thought his grief was like the crying of sea-birds;For his lover was dead, he never would love again.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Alone
  • Cold
  • Sea

• I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Rain

• But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

  

  Jesus Christ
  • Good
  • May
  • Father

• I've kissed in the rain so many times. I think one of my first kisses was in the rain. It was in Washington, D.C., with some kid named Dash, in eighth grade. It was in the rain.

  

  Britt Robertson
  • Rain

• The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.

  

  James Lovelock
  • Rain

• I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • Rain

• One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant.

  

  Derek Jacobi
  • Cold
  • Rain

• I like to sit in front of the computer, going through files of music, and recording the final vocals, guitars and what- nots. But the windows are always open and you can hear the crickets, birds, chickens, and even the sound of rain hitting the studio. The farm is a great place to hang out in, learn from and create music.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Great
  • Music
  • Rain

• If I were to speak of war, it would not be to show you the glories of conquering armies but the mischief and misery they strew in their tracks; and how, while they marched on with tread of iron and plumes proudly tossing in the breeze, some one must follow closely in their steps, crouching to the earth, toiling in the rain and darkness, shelterless themselves, with no thought of pride or glory, fame or praise, or reward; hearts breaking with pity, faces bathed in tears and hands in blood. This is the side which history never shows.

  

  Clara Barton
  • War
  • History
  • Earth

• I'm self-taught. But I finally learned that they was having little shows or night dances or whatever you call them at little juke joints not far from where I lived, and I used to go there. They wouldn't let me play inside, but I could sit outside on the weekends, when it wasn't raining or something.

  

  B. B. King
  • Night
  • Rain
  • Weekend

• The Americans are very effective and action-driven.

  

  Delphine Arnault
  • Action

• I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.

  

  Nicholas G. Carr
  • Story
  • Read
  • Focusing

• If there be one righteous person, the rain falls for his sake.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Rain
  • Sake