Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain there would be no life.
—John Updike, 1989
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Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995I have always found it in mine own experience an easier matter to devise many and profitable inventions than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.
—Hugh Plat, 1595The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125Technology is so much fun, but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
—Daniel Boorstin, 1978Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.
—Shirley Chisholm, 1970Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.
—Henry George, 1879Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCThe world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.
—Isocrates, c. 370 BC