Monsoons Quotes

• Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

  Zion Lee

  Inspiring, Happy, Pain

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• In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.

  Roland Joffe

  India, Plans

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• Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

  John Barth

  Ships, Sometimes, Skipper

  John Barth (1984). “The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction”

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• War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

  Herman Melville

  Determination, War, Should

  Herman Melville (2016). “Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile and Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter”, p.68, Courier Dover Publications

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• Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

  Langston Hughes

  Rain, Kissing, Water

  Langston Hughes (2015). “Sail Away”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Rain, Struggle

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1906). “Longfellow Day by Day”

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• Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

  Langston Hughes

  Rain, Best Kiss, Liquid

  Langston Hughes (2015). “Sail Away”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Rainy Day, Clouds, Persons

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

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• Worrying is stupid. it's like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, Stupid, Rain

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• I’ve told you the four thunderstorms – disappointment, frustration, unfairness and isolation. You cannot avoid them, as like the monsoon they will come into your life at regular intervals. You just need to keep the raincoat handy to not let the spark die

  Chetan Bhagat

  Disappointment, Frustration, Needs

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• They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

  Tim O'Brien

  Sky, Atmosphere, Decay

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good overarm action, will bring a water buffalo to its knees.

  Nancy Banks-Smith

  Sarcastic, Two, Water

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• He couldn’t compare a woman to a torrentially beautiful monsoon, and then look surprised that he’d gotten wet.

  Tessa Dare

  Beautiful, Looks, Compare

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• Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.

  Patricia McCormick

  Fog, Trying, Remember

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• I don't like to claim that I am an expert on anything, but I have enough knowledge about climate science and climate system to be able to write scientific papers and go to meetings and talk about monsoon systems and talk about any other things that you want to discuss about climate science issues. I'm as qualified as anybody that you know on this planet on this topic.

  Willie Soon

  Writing, Issues, Climate

  "Climate Denial Goes Vegas" by Alexander Zaitchik, www.mediamatters.org. July 7, 2014.

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• They will not be pleased. But they know we must catch the monsoon with a well-found ship; and they know they are in the Navy--they have chosen their cake, and must lie on it.' You mean, they cannot have their bed and eat it.' No, no, it is not quite that either. I mean--I wish you would not confuse my mind, Stephen.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Lying, Mean, Cake

  Patrick O'Brian (1991). “H. M. S. Surprise (Vol. Book 3) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.204, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.

  Ilona Andrews

  Crazy, Earthquakes, Tornadoes

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.89, Penguin

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• Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding'. Now I realize the more I learn the less I know about acting... and life.

  Randeep Hooda

  Acting, Actors, Realizing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For those who were desperate, my camera became an object of hope (...)Throughout my year-long coverage of the monsoon world, my strongest conviction was that I was involved in the fundamentals of life.

  Steve McCurry

  Years, Long, Cameras

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• Within hours, tweetted piece of information you've just doled out has become a monsoon, a hurricane of tangible energy that is literally circulating the world. It's helped me sense the undeniable truth of quantum consciousness, the whole butterfly effect. I witness it daily. Being witness to it not only makes me come alive, it enables me to maintain hope.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Butterfly, Pieces, Alive

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• A hint of sensual frustration roughened his voice. “And I will curse the gods along with them, Min. Some wild monsoon raged through me as I looked at you just now. It’s left me rearranged inside, and I don’t have a map.

  Tessa Dare

  Frustration, Voice, Sensual

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• Kissing can ruin lives. Lips touch sometimes teeth clash. New hunger is born with a throb and caution falls away. A cursed girl with lips still moist from her first kiss might feel suddenly wild like a little monsoon. She might forget her curse just long enough to get careless and let it come true. She might kill everyone she loves.

  Laini Taylor

  Girl, Fall, Kissing

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.63, Scholastic Inc.

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• Setting off unknown to face the unknown, against parental opposition, with no money, friends, or influence, ran it a close second. Clichés like "blazing trails," flying over "shark-infected seas," "battling with monsoons," and "forced landings amongst savage tribes" became familiar diet for breakfast. Unknown names became household words, whilst others, those of the failures, were forgotten utterly except by kith and kin.

  Amy Johnson

  Sharks, Sea, Names

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• It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.

  Mira Nair

  Believe, Pride, Play

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• Keep reading and writing, learn how to revise, and push through rejections. My second book, Monsoon Summer, was rejected over 20 times and finally came out 11 years after my first book! I'm glad I didn't give up. Neither should you.

  Mitali Perkins

  Summer, Giving Up, Book

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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