Clouds Quotes

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Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd; As a grand image love remains… — Alphonse de Lamartine
The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different… — Alexander Calder
After Andy Warhol died, it left a dark cloud over N.Y.C. nightlife. — Theophilus London
The visibility at the best of times is liable to be a bit haxy due to clouds of ignorance. — Carroll Smith
The darkness is not so dense as it was; there are faint streaks on the horizon's verge; mist is in the valleys, but there is… — William Morley Punshon
Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place… — George Friedman
The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment; even science… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Some people are never content with their lot, let what will happen. Clouds and darkness are over their heads, alike whether it rain or shine.… — Charles Spurgeon
Clouds signify the veil of the Most High. — Honore de Balzac
We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass,… — H.G. Wells
However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced… — William Hazlitt
Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Never king dropped out of the clouds. — John Selden
Lightly tripping o'er the land, Deftly skimming o'er the main, Scarce our fairy wings bedewing With the frothy mantling brine, Scarce our silver feet acquainting… — Hartley Coleridge
The garden rose may richly bloom In cultured soil and genial air, To cloud the light of Fashion's room Or droop in Beauty's midnight hair,… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the… — Marge Piercy
I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than… — James Madison

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