Cloudy Quotes - Page 5

• For me, there's nothing better than curling up in my favorite blanket on a cloudy or rainy day and just knit. Especially in front of the fireplace.

  Magdalena Neuner

  Rainy Day, My Favorite, Fireplaces

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• The storm is ended! The impartial sunLaughs down upon the battle lost and won,And crowns the triumph of the cloudy hostIn rolling lines retreating to the coast.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Storm, Battle, Triumph

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Mind, Shapes, Accuracy

  Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The progress of a biographer”

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• Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today.

  Andre Breton

  Past, Two, Intellectual

  Andre Breton, Mark Polizzotti (1997). “Anthology of Black Humor”, p.113, City Lights Books

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• Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in 'philosophical propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Giving

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1961). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus: The German Text of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung”, p.57, Linkgua digital

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• Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Government, Order, Atmosphere

  Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843). “Works”, p.441

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• I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruit drops - red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Food, Orange, Cooking

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• I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.

  Kate Flannery

  Thinking, Rainy, Genetics

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• My favourite British spots are any of the beautiful parks, especially on a sunny day such as this, after a long stretch of cold, cloudy and rainy days.

  Richard Schiff

  Beautiful, Rainy Day, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below, Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow, Where hunters never climbed--secure from dread?

  Thomas Hood

  Mother, Art, Moon

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.313, Delphi Classics

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• Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

  Henry James

  Reading, Epic, Envelopes

  Henry James (2016). “The Portrait of a Lady, Complete: American Literature”, p.42, 谷月社

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• Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

  Henri Nouwen

  Sky, Saint, Messengers

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