Cloud Quotes
711 quotes by 558 authors
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Here in St. Cloud’s,†Dr. Larch wrote, “ I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It…
— John Irving
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Grant us safe lodging, and holy rest,†Mrs. Grogan was saying, “and peace at last.†Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of St. Cloud’s, who…
— John Irving
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Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet: Methinks it…
— William Shakespeare
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[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians…
— Bob Dylan
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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps…
— Yann Martel
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I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.
— Haruki Murakami
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For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to…
— Helen Keller
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Well, do you do that consciously?" Daily Alice asked, only partly of Cloud. "Do what?" Cloud said. "Grow up? No. Well. In a sense. You…
— John Crowley
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Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel.…
— Jeanette Winterson
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The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge -…
— Charlotte Bronte
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The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.
— Clive Barker
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And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its…
— Jack Kerouac
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Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block for even the…
— Nick Hornby
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A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to…
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every…
— Rosa Luxemburg
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Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears. We are blessed. Let them all go. The sound of a bird flying low across…
— Jenny Downham
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
— Barack Obama
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