"What are clouds, but an excuse for the……" — James Clavell
"What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?"
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31 Quotes by James Clavell
James Clavell has 31 quotes on this site.
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It's always important to take time to study men -- important men. Friends and enemies.
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Horses are far worse than men for treachery...
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How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable…
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Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own…
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God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
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The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.
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All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.
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Christ, it's so good to be alive.
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You've committed murder just as much as Hélène did. You killed a fly with a human head, she killed a…
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Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will change…
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The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.
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Isn’t it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome…
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Every silver lining has a cloud.
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the…
— Saint Augustine
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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
— Honore de Balzac
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It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this…
— Erykah Badu
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and…
— Edward Abbey
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness…
— Joseph Addison
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I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume…
— Georges Bernanos
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As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and…
— Annie Besant
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Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw…
— Lewis Black
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Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile…
— John Boehner
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All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
— Richard Brautigan
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