Fog Quotes - Page 5

• The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.

  Marilyn Manson

  Movie, Light, Machines

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• The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Stars, Healing, Clouds

  "Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore".

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• I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.

  James Bovard

  Lying, Responsibility, Administration

  Interview with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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• That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Keys, Sight

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Iraq, Soldier, Killing

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• It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

  John Howard

  Reality, Discipline, Too Much

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Strong, Dark, Night

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• Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of you. But you trust God's leading you and you just write into the space you can see ahead of you.

  Ann Voskamp

  Writing, Space, Trust In God

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

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• I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.

  David O. Selznick

  Morning, Thinking, Good Work

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• My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.

  Alex O'Loughlin

  Sound, Geese

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• Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don't get it.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Iron

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• I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.

  Martin Freeman

  Capes, Length, Swirls

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Marriage, Mountain, Sides

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• As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.

  Kenneth Noland

  Goes On, Realizing, Precedent

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• An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.

  Donald Cram

  Should Have, Ideas, Negative

  Donald J Cram, Jane M Cram (2007). “Container Molecules and Their Guests”, p.1, Royal Society of Chemistry

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• In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.

  William Bligh

  Summer, Years, Wind

  William Bligh (1838). “A narrative of the mutiny on board his majesty's ship Bounty”, p.12

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• Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H." It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Nice, Dark, Dining

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.967, Race Point Publishing

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• If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.

  Moshe Dayan

  Defense, Lasts, Cabinets

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• It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Love, Relationship, Valentines Day

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• Your ship was spotted off the coast this morning, slipping silently through the fog... coming around the cape she appeared in a shaft of sunlight... and what a sight to see! Glimmering as much as the ocean herself. Massive and beautiful beyond belief! Laden with treasures, happy times, friends, love, and laughter. Quick, you must PREPARE for her docking... you MUST make space in your life for her gifts... otherwise, just as quickly, she'll quietly slip back out to sea.

  Mike Dooley

  Beautiful, Morning, Laughter

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• I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Character, Intention, Settings

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• I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.

  Nelson Algren

  Monday, Tuesday, Guy

  In Malcolm Crowley (ed) Writers at Work (1958).

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• Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?

  Elbert Hubbard

  Respect, Errors, Enemy

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.66, The Floating Press

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• Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us.

  Henri Matisse

  Running, Good Day, Want

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• The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Elephants, Flying

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “Dodger”, p.132, Random House

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