"Rainbows are people whose lives are bright, shining examples for others."
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"The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan."
"Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter."
"To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes."
"And you remember the rainbow in the Bible is the sign of peace. The rainbow is the sign of prosperity. We want peace, prosperity and justice and we can have it when all the people of God, the rainbow people of God, work together."
"We all need a place that we can go, And feel over the rainbow"
"In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac."
"But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever - provided, naturally, that you don't go and look. This is known as finance."
"The people who guard the rainbow don't like those who get in the way of the sun."
"And I want to rise up, throw my arms open for a vast embrace, address an ample, luminous discourse to the invisible crowds. I would start like this: "O rainbow-colored gods. . ."
"Don't scale because you think there's a pot of gold over that rainbow. Scale because you're ready and eager to do heroic work, every day, forever."
"Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows."
"Watch very closely as the magical angel and I are swallowed by the rainbow twister, and left stranded on the glitter way."
"Einstein was wrong! I"M the speed of like CRACKING through shivery rainbows and GOD the sky whirls and withers like a melting RAINBOW!"
"So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries, She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf, Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self."
"Anyone of us can be a rainbow in somebody's clouds. I want the University of Cincinnati to be a rainbow in the clouds. The University of Cincinnati is really a possibility of hope; it is a rainbow."
"Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds."