Clouds Quotes
1715 quotes by 1196 authors
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This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it breaks, and overshadows…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world's dawning. In such suspension, before every utterance…
— Luce Irigaray
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It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer or in song.…
— Jack Kornfield
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No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish…
— Dogen
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Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in the…
— Dogen
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For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I cannot bring any other man…
— Thomas Merton
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Wordsworth was right when he said that we trail clouds of glory as we come into the world, that we are born with a divine…
— Harper Lee
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I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles…
— Caspar David Friedrich
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Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in the…
— Thomas French
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Where did I learn to understand sculpture? In the woods by looking at the trees, along roads by observing the formation of clouds, in the…
— Auguste Rodin
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The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something
— Rita Dove
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There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Sit, then, as if you were a mountain, with all the unshakeable, steadfast majesty of a mountain. A mountain is completely natural and at ease…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.
— Abraham Lincoln
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It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Just as many who were brought up to think of God as a bearded old gentleman sitting on a cloud decided that when they stopped…
— N. T. Wright
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And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world.
— Leonard Michaels
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I am very annoyed about this issue. Why can’t it be a choice? Why is that any less legitimate? It seems we’re just ceding this…
— Cynthia Nixon
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A day without a dark cloud. Almost a happy day. There were three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days like that in his stretch. From…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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