Clouds Quotes - Page 23

• Can you not see the numerous designs made by God as signs, similitudes, or analogies of resurrection? He has placed them in every era, the alteration of day and night, even in the coming and going of clouds.

  Said Nursi

  Night, Design, Analogies

  Said Nursi (2005). “The Words: The Reconstruction of Islamic Belief and Thought”, p.97, Tughra Books

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• You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud.

  David Wong

  Ocean, Garden, Space

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.55, Titan Books

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• I learned to build bookshelves and brought books to my room, gathering them around me thickly. I read by day and into the night. I thought about perfectibility, and deism, and adjectives, and clouds, and the foxes, I locked my door, from the inside, and leaped from the roof and went to the woods, by day or darkness.

  Mary Oliver

  Book, Night, Doors

  Mary Oliver (2016). “Upstream: Selected Essays”, p.15, Penguin

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• The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower; Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits with inconstant glance Each human heart and countenance; Like hues and harmonies of evening, Like clouds in starlight widely spread, Like memory of music fled, Like aught that for its grace may be Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Summer, Memories, Flower

  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' (1816)

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• Daniel is traveling tonight on a plane. I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain and I can see Daniel waving goodbye. God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes. They say Spain is pretty though I've never been, well Daniel says it's the best place that he's ever seen. And he should know, he's been there enough. Lord I miss Daniel, oh I miss him so much.

  Elton John

  Goodbye, Travel, Eye

  Song: Daniel My Brother

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• The whole life-effort of man is to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain life, cloud life, thunder life, air life, earth life, sun life. To come into immediate felt contact, and so derive energy, power and a dark sort of joy. This effort into sheer naked contact, without an intermediary or mediator is the root meaning of religion.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dark, Men, Roots

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.147, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive

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• Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.

  Maya Angelou

  Responsibility, Rainbow, Power And Responsibility

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• Trust God where you cannot see Him. Do not try to penetrate the cloud He brings over you; rather look to the bow that is on it. The mystery is God's; the promise is yours.

  John Ross Macduff

  God, Christian, Over You

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• The sun tells the best joke of a day full of them, setting so spectacularly that you can almost smell the tropical paradise lazing somewhere over this rim of endless, gray socialist towers. Miles of square windows explode orange, red, and purple, like a million TV sets broadcasting the apocalypse. Clouds unspool. The sky drains of birds.

  Tod Wodicka

  Orange, Squares, Sky

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• When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and the buildings being illuminated by the brightness of the atmosphere which surrounds the objects in such a way that the shadows are few, and these few fade away so that their outline is lost in haze.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Differences

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.165, GENERAL PRESS

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• Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on excitement, sprinkled with adventure juice and the sweet flavor of the forbidden. The psyche moves from the realms of the ordinary and takes a delicate step towards the unknown. We know we shouldn't and that is exactly why we do.

  Brigid Lowry

  Sweet, Moving, Inspiration

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• When people look for the road in the clouds
  The cloud road disappears
  The mountains are tall and steep
  The streams are wide and still
  Green mountains ahead and behind
  White clouds to east and west
  If you want to find the cloud road
  Seek it within

  Hanshan

  White, People, Mountain

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• Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Religious

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Salt Cellars”, p.384, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• We were one of the first states to move most of our email into the cloud. That's gone really, really well; I think it's exceeded expectations. When we think about doing major information technology projects in this state, the default is cloud.

  Mike Powell

  Moving, Technology, Thinking

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• Creation isn't forcing or commanding something into existence. It's more of a rolling over, a good stretch, blissing out, lying on the grass watching the flowers blowing in the breeze or the clouds floating by.

  Esther Hicks

  Lying, Flower, Rolling

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• I have need of the sky,
  I have business with the grass;
  I will up and get me away where the hawk is wheeling
  Lone and high,
  And the slow clouds go by.
  I will get me away to the waters that glass
  The clouds as they pass.
  I will get me away to the woods.

  Richard Hovey

  Glasses, Sky, Water

  Richard Hovey (1962). “Dartmouth Lyrics”, Dartmouth College

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• I finally found me a cloud to float on.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Found, Floats

  Song: Burn After Rolling, Album: Burn After Rolling, 2009

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• I am very annoyed about this issue. Why can’t it be a choice? Why is that any less legitimate? It seems we’re just ceding this point to bigots who are demanding it, and I don’t think that they should define the terms of the debate. I also feel like people think I was walking around in a cloud and didn’t realize I was gay, which I find really offensive. I find it offensive to me, but I also find it offensive to all the men I’ve been out with.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  "Life After ‘Sex’". www.nytimes.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Just as many who were brought up to think of God as a bearded old gentleman sitting on a cloud decided that when they stopped believing in such a being they had therefore stopped believing in God, so many who were taught to think of hell as a literal underground location full of worms and fire...decided that when they stopped believing in that, so they stopped believing in hell. The first group decided that because they couldn't believe in childish images of God, they must be atheists. The second decided that because they couldn't believe in childish images of hell, they must be universalists.

  N. T. Wright

  Atheist, Believe, Thinking

  "Surprised by Hope". Book by N. T. Wright, 2007.

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• Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River,
  And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China;
  Past the South Gate willows comes the Car of Many Bells
  On the upper Palace-Garden Road-a solid length of blossom;
  A Forbidden City roof holds two phoenixes in cloud;
  The foliage of spring shelters multitudes from rain;
  And now, when the heavens are propitious for action,
  Here is our Emperor ready-no wasteful wanderer.

  Wang Wei

  Spring, Rain, Past

  Wang Wei, “Looking Down In A Spring-Rain”

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• When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud.

  Mario Andretti

  Failure, Black, Losing

  "Super Speedway". Documentary, Action, Sport, 1997.

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• A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Light

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.77, GENERAL PRESS

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• To the one who delights in the sovereignty of God the clouds not only have a 'silver lining' but they are silver all through, the darkness only serving to offset the light!

  Arthur W. Pink

  Christian, Light, Darkness

  Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.275, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• There is a Precious Mountain
  Even the Seven Treasures cannot compare
  A cold moon rises through the pines
  Layer upon layer of bright clouds
  How many towering peaks?
  How many wandering miles?
  The valley streams run clear
  Happiness forever!

  Hanshan

  Running, Moon, Forever

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• The question I've asked more often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I supposed these questions storm cloud over every marriage: What are you thinking how are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?

  Gillian Flynn

  Fear, Thinking, Feelings

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