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Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.


Maya Angelou

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JOY LINCOLN I am going to die kissing Simon Snow. Aleister Crowley, I'm living a charmed life.
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CAROL MACK They'll stand up to anything Mother Nature can throw at them, but they won't stand up to a snow plow...
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MA MING If we get no snow, that has implications down the line.
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TASLIMA NASRIN It's not going to snow.
BILL METZGER Every Autumn now my thoughts return to snow. Snow is something I identify myself with. Like my fathe...
CHARLIE ENGLISH Usually we have 8 to 9 inches of snow each winter. After a warm January, Mother Nature is trying to ...
JIM MOSER (1) I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing old. (2) I am of the nature to...
THICH NHAT HANH I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says...
MAYA ANGELOU If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain...
MAYA ANGELOU It's been a nuisance snow. It's not a lot of snow at any given time, but it's a nuisance snow where ...
DANIEL BOON I feel very honored that I got a chance to work with Maya Angelou and Oprah Winfrey.
STANLEY CLARKE No rollout of this nature is ever going to be perfect. We're going to have issues; we're going to ha...
DAVE MCCURLEY It's very ugly' I said generously. 'But it looks as though it would laugh at snow. And, if you hit a...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER We're really at the mercy of Mother Nature. Unless we have a miraculous change in the weather, I thi...
MIKE DOMBECK Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
ATTRIBUTED TO MAYA AANGELOU Snow is no problem to drive on. Ice is out of control.
DICK COWAN There is no fabrication of snow reporting here. We have a reputation, if anything, for underreportin...
ANNA OLSON They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow Wh...
TARSEM SINGH No, not yet, not finished, ... If I am going to fight, I am probably not going to fight at 140. It w...
KOSTYA TSZYU Before you love, Learn to run through the snow Leaving no footprint
TURKISH PROVERB Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, '...
JOLENE BLALOCK I snow blow my driveway at 10 p.m. at night if it snows. I think there needs to be some allowance fo...
JEFF MERTZ Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE You are tired, the lactic acid is going through your legs and you are hanging on by the tip of your ...
KONRAD BARTELSKI There are two important words to keep in mind: snow cover. Once there is snow on the ground it's har...
BILL O'GRADY To try to make somebody love you is as hard as to try to walk on snow leaving no footprints.
VIKRANT PARSAI Prices are rising, but not fast enough to prompt the central bank to raise interest rates. Inflation...
IM NO JUNG I expect consumer spending to continue to improve. The central bank is likely to raise interest rate...
IM NO JUNG The negative impact of high international oil prices was big in August. We can still expect a recove...
IM NO JUNG I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it c...
LEWIS CARROLL Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The way the snowflakes float like tiny feathers—there’s an elegance to it. I could watch for hou...
ALEX Z. MOORES Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
UNSOURCED, MISATTRIBUTED TO MAYA ANGELOU Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go; At noon our sudden summe...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I ...
HERBERT READ Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
ARTHUR CLARKE Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE I'm not going to launch a bikini business and then give up bikinis, am I?
ELIZABETH HURLEY Alan was awesome! At a 7:06-per-mile pace, he's one heck of a runner on snowshoes. Alan took advanta...
JOE REYNOLDS I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La S...
MAYA ANGELOU When there's no snow in town, it's harder to get people here. But the people coming out to the ski a...
DARCIE BREIDEL Seven Springs has snow, and they're making snow.
MICHELE CLARK I'm living my life the way I want it...living it with NO regrets. I'm not sorry for anything I've do...
MATTIE JONES If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.
COUNTEE CULLEN I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY You can model all you want, but it's only going to be based on what happened in the past. There is n...
KOLEMAN STRUMPF You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - i...
MAYA ANGELOU Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccess...
MAYA ANGELOU Tamani paused and mulled this over for a few seconds. "If I say no, are you going to follow me anywa...
APRILYNNE PIKE I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou s...
FRED SAVAGE Sex is like snow; you never know how many inches you are going to get or how long it is going to las...
ANON. I wasn't going to let anything stop me, neither rain or snow or wind.
BERSHAWN JACKSON Exactly. These guys just want me to play Snow White singing in her little cottage while they do all ...
ALYXANDRA HARVEY The dollar is going to be driven by policy, what (Treasury Secretary John) Snow says, and what happe...
LARRY BRICKMAN The dollar is going to be driven by policy, what (Treasury Secretary John) Snow says, and what happe...
LARRY BRICKMAN We're at the mercy of Mother Nature. We have to be adaptable and overcome situations, whatever we ge...
SHANNAN KEENAN We're just going to have to work with what we've got. They're talking about getting some snow, but w...
LARRY STROUSE I have cellulite. I admit it. But sometimes I just say, 'Screw it, I am going to wear a bikini.&...
CINDY CRAWFORD i can go on all day pretending to be happy an fooling the world and leave you wondiring when im gone...
AMBER FAITH HUN Well, there's no business like snow business.
DIETER KOSSLICK I have no particular objection to death by its very nature; it pays all bills.
VIKRANT PARSAI We're going to be right on the edge all the way through tomorrow morning as far as getting snow down...
ANDY BRYANT This is a perfect storm of relief obstructions. You have landslides, snow and no roads to reach the ...
THOMAS MILLER If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I ...
ALEX NOBLE In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five...
SYLVIA PLATH IF" - I lie I am going to add the best features... the peoplea around = features will be taken to bu...
DEYTH BANGER Everybody said it wasn't going to snow, and I kept telling everybody, 'Hey, I think it's going to sn...
CHRIS ALLEN We're looking at very strong northeast winds and that's going to blow snow around and create drifts,...
CHARLIE FOLEY It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature...
ALICE MEYNELL For those who thought it was going to be some kind of a snow job because it was paid for by the cabl...
PAUL SIMON 2 pebbles chatting each other up in a bar first says "are you married ?" second says , "No im shingl...
FEMALE IMAGINATION We'd go out golfing even if it was 20 degrees, as long as there's no snow on the ground.
DREW FUGLESTAD Rain, sleet, snow? It doesn't matter. I'm going to come out blazing .
JUSTIN GATLIN I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set befo...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly ...
BOB DYLAN You wake up on a winter morning and pull up the shade, and what lay there the evening before is no l...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up goin...
STORY MUSGRAVE Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we ac...
BRUCE LIPTON Maturity is when you no longer get the urge to make snow angels in mud season
JOSH STERN When BEE in life not desirable , how can FREEBIES be.
ANUJ SOMANY Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, o...
THOMAS A. EDISON Rain or snow, no fail, we'll be here.
FATHER GREGORY HORTON I study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature.
TONY BENNETT In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a sto...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI I am who I am, and I think I have a good nature, by and large. But if someone takes advantage of tha...
TOM HANKS If we don't buy this as snow removal equipment, we are going to have to buy it as maintenance equipm...
BOB KEMP Winter strips the leaves and the beautiful leaves grow old. No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no b...
LILY CHATTERJEE I think if there was no violence in our world, there would be no violence in film. Violence is a par...
NIELS ARDEN OPLEV Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to i...
RAY BRADBURY Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really m...
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MAYA ANGELOU I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scrip...
MAYA ANGELOU When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
MAYA ANGELOU I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I&#...
MAYA ANGELOU You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot -...
MAYA ANGELOU I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself ...
MAYA ANGELOU If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
MAYA ANGELOU It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is...
MAYA ANGELOU If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
MAYA ANGELOU All great achievements require time.
MAYA ANGELOU Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
MAYA ANGELOU You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I ...
MAYA ANGELOU I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
MAYA ANGELOU Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. T...
MAYA ANGELOU There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more ...
MAYA ANGELOU I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
MAYA ANGELOU I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people ...
MAYA ANGELOU It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
MAYA ANGELOU We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can...
MAYA ANGELOU I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
MAYA ANGELOU I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life lo...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
MAYA ANGELOU I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
MAYA ANGELOU The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else'...
MAYA ANGELOU Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and...
MAYA ANGELOU Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessi...
MAYA ANGELOU One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can...
MAYA ANGELOU If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And y...
MAYA ANGELOU History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaki...
MAYA ANGELOU What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been pai...
MAYA ANGELOU Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
MAYA ANGELOU We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
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