Quotes by Fog What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke. Fyodor Dostoevsky fogwhat-ifcities It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog. George Eliot fogfightingignorance You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch. George M. Humphrey foglunchmorning A new breeze is blowing, and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on. There is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken. There are times when the future seems thick as a fog; you sit and wait, hoping the mists will lift and reveal the right path. But this is a time when the future seems a door you can walk right through into a room called tomorrow. George H. W. Bush fogtakendoors The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the I, under another form, continues the task of existence. Gerard De Nerval fogtaskssleep The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did. George R. R. Martin foggirlprayer Every week Rangers have different former players come out at half-time. Spurs should have a couple a former players on the board, who know what the supporters want. Graham Roberts fogcoupleplayer Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? Like a marriage from which love has gone. And patience, patience everywhere like a fog. Graham Greene fogfaithlove The mystery surrounding Garbo was as thick as a London fog. Greta Garbo fogmysterylondon Fog rolled in like a form of sorrow. To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma. ... The sea was a memory bank into which everything fell and was lost. I dove in but came out empty-handed. Gretel Ehrlich fogoceanmemories The fog lifted in the evening and a blue-black band at the horizon marked the end of the sea and the beginning of thought. Where does a beginning begin when nothing has gone on before? Gretel Ehrlich fogoceanblue I have seen mad people, and I have known some who were quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life, except on one point. They could speak clearly, readily, profoundly on everything; till their thoughts were caught in the breakers of their delusions and went to pieces there, were dispersed and swamped in that furious and terrible sea of fogs and squalls which is called MADNESS. Guy de Maupassant fogintelligentsea Instead of always asking yourself how to clear up your mental fog, learn to ask: "Can confusion know anything about clarity?" Guy Finley fogconfusionmeaningful Seeing occurs, of course, through stopping thought. Thought is the fog. When thought stops in meditation, at any point, when there's no thought, we see the other shore. Frederick Lenz stoppingfogmeditation There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both. Hal Borland moisturefogweather I dreamed a place where I have come to dwell Cold Mountain says it all Monkeys scream, the valley fog is cold My door blends with the color of the peaks I gather leaves and thatch a hut among the pines Dig a pond and lead a trickle from the brook Long ago I left the world behind Eating ferns I pass the years in peace Hanshan foglong-agodoors The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by. H. G. Wells valleysfoggathering Just as a flood-lighted temple is more beautiful in a severe storm or in a heavy fog, so the gospel of Jesus Christ is more glorious in times of inward storm and of personal sorrow and tormenting conflict. Harold B. Lee fogbeautifuljesus Never till this day Did life disturb the dense eternity Of joyless quiet; never skylark's song, Or storm-bird's prescient scream, or eaglet's cry, Made vital the gross fog. The very light Is but an alien that can find no welcome Hartley Coleridge foglightsong 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 foggood-dayrunning«23456789101112»
