Clouds Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

“every shadow of a thought or doubt.. crossed his face with the clarity of cloud shadows racing across the fields.”

— Dirk Bogarde

The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of…

— Alexander Smith

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

— Matthew Arnold

The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

— Victor Hugo

“[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well…

— Wallace Stegner

Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.

— Robert Collyer

Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.

— Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

— John Henry Newman

For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.

— John Sharp Williams

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

— William Hazlitt