Clouds Quotes - Page 33

• The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud.

  Mason Cooley

  Music, Dancing, Sitting

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• It is to the press mankind are indebted for having dispelled the clouds which so long encompassed religion, for disclosing her genuine lustre, and disseminating her salutary doctrines.

  James Madison

  Long, Religion, Doctrine

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.511

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• My age fallen away like white swaddling
  Floats in the middle distance, becomes
  An inhabited cloud.

  Philip Larkin

  Distance, White, Age

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.51, Faber & Faber

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• The time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up....It's going to blow away all this idleness and indifference, and prejudice against work....I'm going to work, and in twenty-five or thirty years' time every man and woman will be working.

  Anton Chekhov

  Change, Blow, Men

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• There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good-will to every thing, that hurts or pleases us.

  David Hume

  Hurt, Army, Moon

  David Hume (1957). “The Natural History of Religion”, p.29, Stanford University Press

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• A ward, and still in bonds, one day
  I stole abroad;
  It was high spring, and all the way
  Primrosed and hung with shade;
  Yet was it frost within,
  And surly winds
  Blasted my infant buds, and sin
  Like clouds eclipsed my mind.

  Henry Vaughan

  Spring, Wind, Mind

  Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• Not for no cold did freeze,
  Nor any cloud beguile
  Th'eternal flowering spring

  Torquato Tasso

  Spring, Youth, Cold

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• Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Beautiful, New York, Cities

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• Berzelius' symbols are horrifying. A young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself acquainted with them... They appear to me equally to perplex the adepts in science, to discourage the learner, as well as to cloud the beauty and simplicity of the atomic theory.

  John Dalton

  Simplicity, Might, Students

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• Something really big happened in the world's wiring in the last decade, but it was obscured by the financial crisis and post-9/11. We went from a connected world to a hyperconnected world. I'm always struck that Facebook, Twitter, 4G, iPhones, iPads, high-speech broadband, ubiquitous wireless and Web-enabled cellphones, the cloud, Big Data, cellphone apps and Skype did not exist or were in their infancy a decade ago.

  Thomas Friedman

  Change, Data, Ipads

  "It’s a 401(k) World" by Thomas Friedman, www.nytimes.com. April 30, 2013.

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• Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond? Have you never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud? And what changes the darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things, what eternity is, for example, I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy.

  Garrett Fort

  Hope, Stars, Lying

  "Fictional character: Henry Frankenstein". "Frankenstein", www.imdb.com. November 21, 1931.

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• Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.

  Christina Stead

  Black, Golden, Pessimism

  Christina Stead (2012). “I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.

  Jacques Roumain

  Dream, Nature, Rain

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• Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't have to fret about food and drink. And you can be sure that they have black angels to do the heavy work like laundering the clouds or sweeping the rain and cleaning the sun after a storm, while the white angels sing like nightingales all day long or blow in those little trumpets like they show in the pictures we see in church.

  Jacques Roumain

  Rain, Angel, Blow

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• Ingesting divine cinnabar will make your lifespan inexhaustible. You will last as long as heaven and earth, be able to travel on clouds and ride dragons, and ascend at will to the Heaven of Highest Clarity

  Ge Hong

  Dragons, Long, Heaven

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• However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Fleeting, Language

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.68, Graphic Arts Books

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• I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts; or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Expression, Mind

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• Cloud walking. I like that. And yeah, that's exactly how you make me feel. Like my feet will never touch the ground.

  A. Meredith Walters

  Feet, You Make Me Feel, Yeah

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• Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation of the whole.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Sight, Students

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.66, Harvard University Press

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• Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Eggs, Unity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.106, Penguin

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• Clouds of flavors and savors float around the thing-in-itself.

  Mason Cooley

  Essence, Flavor, Floats

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• Those playful fancies of the mighty sky.

  Albert Richard Smith

  Sky, Fancy

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• He that follows the advice of reason has a mind that is elevated above the reach of injury; that sits above the clouds, in a calm and quiet ether, and with a brave indifferency hears the rolling thunders grumble and burst under his feet.

  Walter Scott

  Feet, Brave, Advice

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• Our glories float between the earth and heaven
  Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun,
  And are the playthings of the casual wind.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wind, Heaven, Earth

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• We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep; but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sleep, Waking, Enough

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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