Clouds Quotes
1715 quotes by 1196 authors
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I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . . But though I…
— Richard Aldington
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This is what I have heard at last the wind in December lashing the old trees with rain unseen rain racing along the tiles under…
— W S Merwin
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In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a…
— Gustave Flaubert
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What is the idea of God in heaven? Materialism. The Vedantic idea is the infinite principle of God embodied in every one of us. God…
— Swami Vivekananda
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...Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable...
— John M. Geddes
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Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g-what we're comfortable with on good old terra firma-to the midpoint of our voyage, and decelerate continuously at…
— Carl Sagan
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It was a mind-blowing experience, it really was-absolutely an awesome thing. . . . As I got to the top I released a bag of…
— Mike Melvill
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As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up at…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Express yourself completely, then keep quiet. Be like the forces of nature: when it blows, there is only wind; when it rains, there is only…
— Laozi
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Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man comfortable with complexity.…
— George Will
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An archer competing for a clay vessel shoots effortlessly, his or her skill and concentration unimpeded. If the prize is changed to a brass ornament,…
— Zhuangzi
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We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk:…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how. The necessary premise is that a person is somehow more than his…
— Saul Bellow
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Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not,…
— Chuck Close
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Here lies the secret. Says Patanjali, the father of Yoga, "When a man rejects all the superhuman powers, then he attains to the cloud of…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out…
— Bruce Sterling
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It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing the…
— Indra Devi
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While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes…
— Charles Lindbergh
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I moved down the street like a cloud of awareness following a body that seemed simultaneously familiar and foreign. There was an incomprehensible attachment to…
— Suzanne Segal
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Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away. Waiting for the rainbow's end to cast its gold your way ... You don't…
— Neil Peart
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