Quotes by category:Clouds

The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted. This applies to everything from Google Docs to Gmail: Putting our data out there really means putting it 'out there.'

Douglas Rushkoff

data clouds mean

There's no life like the life I've lived. You're free like a clou... by Doyle Brunson

There's no life like the life I've lived. You're free like a cloud floating up in the sky.

floating sky clouds

The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often.

voice answers clouds

How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his own experience - free from the clouds of religiosity that often surround them Yet it's difficult to distinguish the tools themselves from their cultural packaging.

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

teaching practice clouds

Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

change dark clouds

A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October Summery On the hill's shoulder.

october nature clouds

Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iro... by Dwight D. Eisenhower

Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

military clouds war

God said,--"Let there be light!" by Ebenezer Elliott

God said,--"Let there be light!"

Ebenezer Elliott

light blue clouds

Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and was... by E. M. Forster

Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.

students clouds past

It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule in a cloud of molecules-it is a unique population.

unique clouds science

When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly through the clean air, watching the earth below.

Eddie Rickenbacker

air clouds thinking

It was a beautiful, harmonious, peaceful-looking planet, blue with white clouds, and one that gave you a deep sense of home, of being, of identity. It is what I prefer to call instant global consciousness.

home clouds beautiful

The soul of the river had entered my soul, And the gathered power of my soul was moving So swiftly, it seemed to be at rest Under cities of cloud and under Spheres of silver and changing worlds Until I saw a flash of trumpets Above the battlements over Time!

Edgar Lee Masters

cities clouds moving

We've got clouds and rain, just like in Seattle .. but Sao Paulo... by Eddie Vedder

We've got clouds and rain, just like in Seattle .. but Sao Paulo is better.

sao-paulo rain clouds

Above the clouds I lift my wing by Edmund Clarence Stedman

Above the clouds I lift my wing

Edmund Clarence Stedman

fighting clouds wings

The rising sun complies with our weak sight, First gilds the clouds, then shows his globe of light At such a distance from our eyes, as though He knew what harm his hasty beams would do.

distance eye clouds

I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person fair, and feel a certain zest To bear your body's weight upon my breast; So subtly is the fume of life designed, To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind, And leave me once again undone, possessed. Think not for this, however, the poor treason Of my stout blood against my staggering brain, I shall remember you with love, or season My scorn with pity, - let me make it plain: I find this frenzy insufficient reason For conversation when we meet again.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

remember-you clouds thinking

One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic.

irritation frustration clouds

If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure our atmosphere, to gaze for a whole day on the surface of the earth as it rotates beneath him, the feature, beyond all others most likely to arrest his attention would be the wedge-like outlines of the continents as they narrow away to the South.

space clouds science

A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.

church greek clouds