Clouds Quotes - Page 25

• All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree not of a cloud.

  John Ruskin

  Tree, Opinion, Shows

  John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters”, p.11

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• Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand Years go by If I'm stripped of my beauty And the orange clouds Raining in head Years go by Will I choke on my tears Till finally there is nothing left One more casualty You know we're too easy Easy Easy

  Tori Amos

  Rain, Years, Orange

  Song: Silent All These Years, Album: Little Earthquakes, 1992

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• To mystify, in the active sense, is to befuddle, cloud, obscure, mask whatever is going on, whether this be experience, action, or process, or whatever is "the issue." It induces confusion in the sense that there is failure to see what is "really" being experienced, or being done, or going on, and failure to distinguish or discriminate the actual issues. This entails the substitution of false for true constructions of what is being experienced, being done (praxis), or going on (process), and the substitution of false issues for the actual issues.

  R. D. Laing

  Issues, Confusion, Done

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• Only let us love God, and then nature will compass us about like a cloud of Divine witnesses; and all influences from the earth, and things on the earth, will be ministers of God to do us good. Only let there be God within us, and then every thing outside us will become a godlike help.

  William Mountford

  Nature, Earth, Helping

  William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.155

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• Our brains are wired to interpret shapes as faces and bodies. That's why people see the Virgin Mary in the clouds or even in cheese sandwiches. It's your cytoplasm, not some strange ectoplasm.

  Seth Shostak

  Cheese Sandwiches, People, Brain

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• All the birds have flown up and gone; A lonely cloud floats leisurely by. We never tire of looking at each other - Only the mountain and I.

  Li Bai

  Lonely, Bird, Mountain

  Li Po, “Alone Looking At The Mountain”

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• When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.

  George Eliot

  Life, Imagination, Suffering

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.259

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• My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wisdom, Long, One Day

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.248, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Some poems are like the Centaurs--a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Centaurs, Beast

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887). “Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”

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• Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Summer, Song, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.108

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• Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life's dark clouds.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Love, Dark, Enough

  Sinclair Lewis (2002). “Arrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth”

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• I'm no reformer; for I see more lightThan darkness in the world; mine eyes are quickTo catch the first dim radiance of the dawn,And slow to note the cloud that threatens storm.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Eye, Darkness, Storm

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.556, Delphi Classics

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• The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark, divisive clouds of Marxist socialism and bring together men and women from all walks of life who share a belief in freedom.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Dark, Fighting, Men

  Margaret Thatcher's speech in Perth, Scotland (May 13, 1983), as quoted in "British Vote Campaign Gets Off to Angry Start" in New York Times, May 14, 1983.

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• Just then, down through the last glimmer of twilight, stepping high and free, like a cloud, a moth, a ghost in the shape of a horse — came the Silver Stallion. Wild, beautiful, and free as the wind he came, from one kingdom to another, Thowra

  Elyne Mitchell

  Beautiful, Horse, Twilight

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• Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Snakes, Unbound

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1861). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Complete in One Volume”, p.201

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• In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Running, Race, Joy

  1820 'To a Skylark', stanza 3.

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• digital hub (center of our universe) is moving from PC to cloud - PC now just another client alongside iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, ... - Apple is in danger of hanging on to old paradigm too long (innovator's dilemma) - Google and Microsoft are further along on the technology, but haven't quite figured it out yet - tie all of our products together, so we further lock customers into our ecosystem

  Steve Jobs

  Moving, Technology, Iphone

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• By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast - a cold wind.

  William Carlos Williams

  Blue, Wind, Cold

  William Carlos Williams, Christopher John MacGowan, Robert Crockett (2003). “William Carlos Williams”, p.24, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and colour, give a promise of the glory and beauty which encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams.

  Bram Stoker

  Beautiful, Dream, Country

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Under the Sunset: And Other Stories”, p.4, The Floating Press

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• Do you not see the hand of God, which gives harmony, light, and love to the world? Do not the mountains, in the blue cloud of incense, sing their hymn of glory?

  Leonid Andreyev

  God, Hands, Hymns

  Leonid Andreyev (1922). “He who Gets Slapped: A Play in Four Acts”

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• Nor ever yet the melting rainbow's vernal-tinctur'd hues to me have shone so pleasing, as when first the hand of science pointed out the path in which the sun-beams gleaming from the west fall on the watery cloud.

  Mark Akenside

  Fall, Hands, Rainbow

  'The Pleasures of Imagination' (1744) bk. 2, l. 103

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• Friends part foreverwild geese lost in cloud

  Matsuo Basho

  Lost, Geese

  c.1689 On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, no.219 (translated by Lucien Stryk)

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• My body, now close to fifty years of age, has become an old tree that bears bitter peaches, a snail which has lost its shell, a bagworm separated from its bag; it drifts with the winds and clouds that know no destination. Morning and night I have eaten traveler's fare, and have held out for alms a pilgrim's wallet.

  Matsuo Basho

  Morning, Night, Years

  "Anthology of Japanese literature". Book by Donald Keene, 1955.

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• T'was Spring, t'was Summer, all was gay Now Autumn bears a cloud brow The flowers of Spring are swept way And Summer fruits desert the bough

  Thomas Gray

  Summer, Spring, Flower

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• Paint here no draped despairs, no saddening clouds, Where the soul rests, proclaims eternity. But let the wrong cry out as raw as wounds, This Time forgets and never heals, far less transcends.

  Stephen Spender

  Soul, Despair, Cry

  "Poems (In Railway Halls, on Pavements Near the Traffic)". Book by Stephen Spender, 1933.

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