No one’s words can compete with this mercilessly powerful rain. The only thing that can compete with the sound of this rain, that can smash this deathlike wall of sound, is the shout of a man who refuses to stoop to this chatter, the shout of a simple spirit that knows no words.
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Related Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t... JEANIENE FROST This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ... OSHO I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in l... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Please be SILENT and LISTEN. I am the SCHOOLMASTER and you are in the CLASSROOM. Just... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f... GEORGE HARRISON There is no amount of bad karma that can compete with a contrite spirit and God's forgiveness. SHANNON L. ALDER While a picture paints a thousand words, a thousand words paints a masterpiece. WILLIE HAYNES I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite. SHANE L. KOYCZAN the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Music is the sound of unspoken thoughts. DAN GROAT God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet. BIBLE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES This was an incredible breakthrough for her. She now knows that she can compete with anybody in the ... BILL DEVINE I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember... ALLY CONDIE Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU This satsang (association with the Self) is the only thing that can establish a state that is free o... DADA BHAGWAN I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear th... BIBLE I can't even SARAH VAN WATERSCHOOT The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Oh, oh, oh... No... just they got me. Undercover??? and what more?? This and this?? DEYTH BANGER Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I'm asking the people of Scotland to shout with me, do they think that this is acceptable? KATHLEEN MARSHALL She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ses’ach L’ru!” Came the slightly muffled chorus. This was Ruminarii for ‘Hail the Captain.�... CHRISTINA ENGELA I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face. "... BRANDON SANDERSON Somebody once asked,how can I Love another? The reply he got was,do you love yourself? He replied ye... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) He ran his knuckles over her cheek as their gazes met and held. So much. He had been given so much.<... VICTORIA LYNNE Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal ANDREW FAIRCHILD How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness a... ORSON F. WHITNEY If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're je... CRAIG GROESCHEL We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them. SHANE L. KOYCZAN Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity. SHANE L. KOYCZAN If you are reading this... I'm dead so far probably or still alive who knows? It's bad day in b... DEYTH BANGER When drugs itself are a treatment, what further treatment do you want. APURVA GAGLANI She recalled how Pauline had fallen off a bus one night, late, went skidding into Creedmoor. In a no... ALICE MCDERMOTT I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People wer... SARAH DESSEN Coraline nunca había comprendido qué motivo había llevado a alguien a pintar un cuenco con frutas... NEIL GAIMAN Before you start talking or writing, be clear about the message you want to deliver to your audience... SOTONYE ANGA The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The heart is deceitful and wicked in everyone; the Holy Spirit changes even the most wretched sinner... NORM TOMLINSON Woe unto you if you have come to this world just to fear man,for man is nothing but ordinary dust wi... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power of man;Man does not only have the power to accomplish great & unbelievable things in life,... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) "Love is blind" Everyone knows but sometimes love see so beautiful thing that no eye can imagine.The... TANJIR RASHID SORON MD The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recogni... TIMOTHY FINDLEY He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by ... MICHAEL ONDAATJE Alex will continue to get the bulk of the work. We are happy with his play and he's proven that he c... DAVE NONIS Let the power of your love change the world, but never let the problems of this world change the bea... DEBASISH MRIDHA The faithfulness of the Lord is so great that no mind can comprehend it, no hand can fold it, no mou... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Even in rain, we can be facinated with sensations of beauty in the world, sight, sound, smell, and d... ROBERT E. BERG I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth. It is good to brush your teeth when you are angry, becau... LEMONY SNICKET Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living DAVID RAKOFF May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The sound of darkness was certainly intricately linked to the sense of being alone but unrelated to ... SHūSAKU ENDō You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. She said, "Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm goin... CRAIG GROESCHEL Well, there would be no sound if we shout on the background. ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help cr... HIROMU ARAKAWA The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are... SINCLAIR LEWIS Nothing in the world matters if you don't matter. STEVEN CUOCO No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ANDREA HAIRSTON Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force ... YEHUDA BERG It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoo... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most
possible out of the stuff that ha... JUDGE WALTER MALONE The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that ha... ORISON SWETT MARDEN The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has... ORISON SWETT MARDEN There is no sound wall they can put up to absorb the noise. CAROL CAMPBELL We are happy to put on this meet. It's outstanding to have the local schools compete. There was a lo... CURTIS FRYE She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is n... HARPER LEE The only thing that can justify this is to give the people a moment to party, and a way to defy the ... JOSE GARCIA I woke to the sound of rain. SYLVIA PLATH It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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