Clearing Quotes

• You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

  Joan Baez

  Adversity, White, Despair

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• The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.

  LaToya Jackson

  Art, Mean, Trials

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• The big nest was in Afghanistan, thats not quite cleared, then there are nests in the Philippines, there are nests in Indonesia, the Malaysians are clearing up their nests.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Philippines, Nests, Indonesia

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2002.

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• I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Thinking, Special, Path

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• I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.

  Michael Connelly

  Writing, Thinking, And Love

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• I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Men, Clouds, Sky

  Ernest Shackleton (2004). “South: The Endurance Expedition”, p.149, Penguin

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• Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

  Colin Powell

  Moving, Progress, Defeat

  "Meet The Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 19, 2010.

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• London is the clearing-house of the world.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  House, World, London

  Speech at the Guildhall, 19 January 1904, in 'The Times' 20 January 1904

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• We're great, Jo and me. We're pals, and I guess sex has a lot to do with it. She's also brilliant at clearing a room. So protective, so devoted. I can't believe how much she loves me.

  Ronnie Wood

  Sex, Believe, Pals

  "The Do Ron Ron" By Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

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• To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Artist, Space, Labyrinth

  Marcel Duchamp (1994). “Duchamp: Passim : a Marcel Duchamp Anthology”, Craftsman House

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• Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Cities, House, World

  Speech at the Guildhall, 19 January 1904, in 'The Times' 20 January 1904

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• The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind a distant hill, the noble sun rose up, driving the mists in phantom shapes before it, and clearing the earth of their ghostly forms till darkness came again.

  Charles Dickens

  Morning, Nature, Stars

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.333

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• The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was another cunning stroke on the part of the foe, the fresh battle toward which he was carrying ancient wounds.

  William Faulkner

  Running, Air, Shadow

  William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “The Way of Zen”, p.157, Vintage

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• And through the opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity.

  Ken Wilber

  Profound, May, Might

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.189, Shambhala Publications

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• Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of everything except what you want and need - and it's wonderful in that way. And when it's right, you're lost in the moment.

  Meryl Streep

  Acting, Needs, Actors

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• What is proposed herein is that we have no right, nor any ethical justification, for clearing land or using wilderness while we tread over lawns, create erosion, and use land inefficiently. Our responsibility is to put our house in order. Should we do so, there will never be any need to destroy wilderness.

  Bill Mollison

  Responsibility, Order, Land

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Mean, Math

  "Michelle Obama Lends a Hand For Women In Science" by Helene McLaughlin, www.wired.com. September 28, 2011.

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• The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room. And only one activity: clearing away. The destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying rejuvenates, because it clears away the traces of our own age; it cheers, because everything cleared away means to the destroyer a complete reduction, indeed a rooting out, of his own condition.

  Walter Benjamin

  Character, Age, Cheerful

  "Selected Writings: 1927-1934".

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• Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Clearing Out, People, Way

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.273, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the time to reach her hand through the mesh and say my name before the spear enters her body.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hands, Names, Body

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.227, Scholastic Inc.

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• It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Heart, Cutting, Years

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “An Area of Darkness: His Discovery of India”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting - where even low-level leaks would be matched with the appropriate journalists to pursue and report on them and, perhaps, even with appropriate NGOs to advocate on their causes.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Media, House, Wikileaks

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• How do you forget something? You just walk away from it, those who are still alive. There are so few clearings in our hearts and minds, so few places where something can't grow on top of whatever happened to us before, and this is love too.

  Daniel Handler

  Heart, Mind, Alive

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• In our town there is a secret spot where you can still see the stars at night, believe it or not. It is the only spot like that left, unclouded by the dwindling skyscrapers rising nearby. It is a good place to go to walk and talk in whispers. Following the little hill that rises from the park to a small clearing which overlooks the statue of the armless general on his bronze steed, most of us later remember this spot as the first place we knew we might be in love.

  Joe Meno

  Stars, Believe, Night

  Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.221, Akashic Books

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