Clouds Quotes - Page 39

• The first sign of a 'smoking gun,' they argue, may be a mushroom cloud.

  Judith Miller

  Gun, Mushrooms, Smoking

  "Threats And Responses: The Iraqis; U.S. Says Hussein Intensifies Quest For A-Bomb Parts" by Judith Miller and Michael R. Gordon, www.nytimes.com. September 8, 2002.

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• The inhabitants of earth behold commonly but the dark and shadowy under side of heaven's pavement; it is only when seen at a favorable angle in the horizon, morning or evening, that some faint streaks of the rich lining of the clouds are revealed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Dark, Sky

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.104, Penguin

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• In the land of genius, the sun always shines; in the land of clever, there are many clouds!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Land, Shining

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• In the middle of a wheat field under a beautiful sunshine anybody can be happy; the important thing is to be happy in the middle of a storm under the darkest clouds!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Sunshine, Wheat Fields

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• Realise well, proud little man that even the highest clouds don't shine! For above all things there lie brightest stars.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stars, Lying, Men

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• Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with the untruth, seek the truth!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ocean, Darkness, Deceiving

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• Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Artist, Imagination

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by G. K. Chesterton, V: Man and Mythologies, 1925.

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• Endless drama in a group clouds consciousness. Too much noise overwhelms the senses. Continual input obscures genuine insight. Do not substitute sensationalism for learning.

  John Heider

  Drama, Groups, Input

  John Heider (2014). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.12, Green Dragon Books

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• In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Fall, Heart

  Victor Hugo (2001). “William Shakespeare”, p.80, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Sky, People, Tree

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.54, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Contemporary poetry ... tries to transform the sign back into meaning:
  its ideal, ultimately, would be to reach not the meaning of words, but the
  meaning of things themselves. This is why it clouds the language, increases
  as much as it can the abstractness of the concept and the arbitrariness
  of the sign and stretches to the limit the link between signifier and signified.

  Roland Barthes

  Trying, Would Be, Links

  Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag (1983). “Barthes: Selected Writings”

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• Teenagers are bored. By everything. Show a teenager an actual volcanic eruption, in progress, featuring giant billowing clouds of smoke, hot rocks raining from the sky, lava floes destroying entire villages, etc., and the teenager, eyebrows arched with sarcasm, will look at you and say, "Gee, this is swell," then return to the rental car, turn on his portable CD player, and listen to a band called Stomach Contents.

  Dave Barry

  Teenager, Rain, Sarcasm

  "Whining Down The Country's Roads With Dave Barry And Family". community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. September 1, 1991.

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• There is some CO2-water vapor feedback. But it's not operating on a global scale. The modellers cannot accurately separate water vapour from the effects of clouds and rainfall.

  Willie Soon

  Water, Vapour, Vapor

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• Changes in clouds and rainfall can overwhelm what little effect CO2-water vapour has on temperature.

  Willie Soon

  Water, Vapour, Littles

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• The warming we've experienced in the late 20th century could just as easily be explained by small decreases in cloud cover - natural changes in the system - and have nothing to do with CO2.

  Willie Soon

  Natural, Century, Decrease

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• My 12-year-old daughter said to me, "Enough with the subtitles, Daddy, for crying out loud." Because they always seem to cloud the issue rather than clarify it.

  Martin Amis

  Daughter, Years, Issues

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• Raindrops are beating, a large puddle is forming, there on the balcony. It all floats in Emptiness, in purest Transparency, with no one here to watch it. If there is an I, it is all that is arising, right now and right now and right now. My lungs are the sky; those mountains are my teeth; the clouds are my skin; the thunder is my heart beating time to the timeless; the rain itself, the tears of our collective estate, here where nothing is really happening.

  Ken Wilber

  Rain, Heart, Sky

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.151, Shambhala Publications

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• 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

  Thinking, Air, Blue

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• The stormy March has come at last, With winds and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies.

  William C. Bryant

  Wind, Sky, Rushing

  William Cullen Bryant, “March”

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• There is no morality in the mushroom cloud. The black rain of nuclear ashes will fall alike on the just and the unjust. And then it will be too late to wish that we had done the real work of this atomic age, which is to seek a world that is neither red nor dead.

  Edward Kennedy

  Real, Rain, Fall

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• When the sky is totally covered by the dark clouds, be strong enough to see the bright stars beyond them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Strong, Stars, Dark

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• When the thick layers of dark clouds occupy the sky, if there is no wind at all to sweep them away, start blowing with courage and belief

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dark, Wind, Sky

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• When there are no clouds in the sky, under the beautiful sunshine, remember the rain and repair your umbrella!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Rain, Sunshine

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• When you are grateful to the rain, do not forget also the clouds! When appreciating something, be fair enough also to appreciate the sources that created it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Rain, Grateful, Appreciate

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• The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of the darkest clouds.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Mind, Lightning, Brilliant

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