Quotes by Clouds God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven. George MacDonald adversity clouds men Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain. George MacDonald fate rain clouds One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they [Al Qaeda] intend. George Tenet als mushrooms clouds The poet's discourse can be compared to the track of a charged particle through a cloud-chamber. An energised field of association and connotation, of overtones and undertones, of rebus and homophone, surround its motion, and break from it in the context of collision .. in Western poetry so much of the charged substance is previous poetry. George Steiner track poetry clouds Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man comfortable with complexity. The protracted consideration of Keystone supposedly displayed these virtues. Now, however, it is clear that his mind has always been as closed as an unshucked oyster. George Will thoughtful clouds men Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud. George Sand stars lakes clouds The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder. George Santayana lightning battle clouds Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. George Santayana air clouds wind Each of us is born with a series of built-in confusions that are probably somehow Darwinian. These are: (1) we're central to the universe (that is, our personal story is the main and most interesting story, the only story, really); (2) we're separate from the universe (there's US and then, out there, all that other junk - dogs and swing-sets, and the State of Nebraska and low-hanging clouds and, you know, other people), and (3) we're permanent (death is real, o.k., sure - for you, but not for me). George Saunders real dog clouds Whenever I watched this movie ["How to Train Your Dragon"], I thought, "That's where I want to be. I want to be up in that sky. I want to be flying through the clouds and be living in that environment." So I think if I had a dragon, I would spend most of my time up in the air all over the place and taking in this beautiful planet. Gerard Butler clouds beautiful thinking America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud. George W. Bush mushrooms gun clouds God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. George MacDonald unfinished-work clouds men Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift molded ever and melted across skies? Gerard Manley Hopkins summer clouds wind Ambulances always come with clouds of smoke. And then they disappear in a whistle. But what they bring is fear. Not freedom. Feardom is what they bring. And they bring fire and smoke. Oh, my nerves are bad tonight, yes, bad. I fear freedom. I, above all, fear the freedom that is above all feardom. Giannina Braschi freedom fire clouds There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead. George W. Bush political humor clouds 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 clouds thinking Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front-- Gilbert K. Chesterton secret clouds tree Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, Giordano Bruno sky clouds wind Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures. George Eliot imagination clouds lying Even in the winter, in the midst of the storm, the sun is still there. Somewhere above the clouds, it still shines and warms and pulls at the life buried deep inside the brown branches and frozen earth. Gloria Gaither shining clouds winter «1819202122232425262728»
