Clearing Quotes
136 quotes by 125 authors
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I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I think he knows all my tricks. Or the fact I don't have any tricks - Brendan Shanahan on trying to score against Curtis Joseph.…
— Ron Tugnutt
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I'm hoping for a bench clearing brawl during the warm up so I can go out and grab his stick.
— Ron Tugnutt
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Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing.
— Ming-Dao Deng
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After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acknowledgment comes…
— William J. Clinton
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I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory observations, that do…
— Joshua Reynolds
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Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking,…
— Mark Helprin
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The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into air, or when…
— Christian Friedrich Schonbein
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Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means…
— Mary Everest Boole
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Is there some thought being given to subsidizing the clearing of rainforests in order for some countries to eliminate that production of greenhouse gases?
— Dana Rohrabacher
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It's not just global warming, it's not just a loss of biodiversity, it's not just the pollution of our oceans and the clearing of our…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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Promoting his new book, President Bush visited the headquarters of Facebook. Unfortunately, he spent the whole visit on Farmville, clearing brush.
— Conan O'Brien
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To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.…
— Marcel Duchamp
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
— Joan Baez
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Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and doubt. But soon,…
— Charles Lamb
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I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and…
— Michael Connelly
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London is the clearing-house of the world.
— Joseph Chamberlain
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Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.
— Dogen
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Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why,post factum they appear…
— Arthur Koestler
Who Wrote These Clearing Quotes
125 authors contributed a total of 136 Clearing Quotes, led by these top contributors: