Mist Quotes

294 quotes by 242 authors

There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up… — W. Somerset Maugham
There is an unseen sweetness in the stomachâ€™s emptiness. We are lutes. When the sound box is filled, no music can come forth. When the… — Rumi
The truth is that our only safety, our only security, our only hope is to hold fast to that which is good. As the mists… — David S. Baxter
Bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, Startle the forest and make the heights tremble. Clouds darken beneath the darkness of rain, streams pale with… — Li Bai
The autumn hill gathers the remaining light, A flying bird chases after its companion. The green color is bright And brings me into the moment,… — Wang Wei
Did you not look upon the world this morning and imagine it as the boy might see it? And did you not recognize the mist… — Jamie O'Neill
A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long… — Isak Dinesen
Who can fail to mist at Fergie's anthem, 'My humps, my humps, my lovely lady lumps.' Hmmm. 'My lunch, my lunch, I swear it's coming… — Celia Rivenbark
One should see that all appearance is like mist and fog. — Milarepa
Why should we live halfway up the hill and swathed in the mists, when we might have an unclouded sky and a radiant sun over… — Alexander MacLaren
So dull and dark are the November days. The lazy mist high up the evening curled, And now the morn quite hides in smoke and… — John Clare
To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond the first ape-man.… — Arthur C. Clarke
It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery. — Samuel Johnson
All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament image of the… — N. T. Wright
Dappled sunlight and looked at the silver vapor swirling inside. "Mist gathered at first light on the first day of the new moon on the… — Mary Pope Osborne
How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures; nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven:… — Robert Southey
'Tell me one last thing,' said Harry. 'Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?' Dumbledore beamed at him, and his voice… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this. — Hal Borland
And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist. — Carl Sandburg
Words are the legs of the mind; they bear it about, carry It from point to point, bed it down at night, and keep it… — Richard Eder

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