100+ Clouds Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Albert Pinkham Ryder, Whitney Museum of American Art, Lloyd Goodrich (1947). “Albert P. Ryder: centenary exhibition ; Oct. 18 to Nov. 30, 1947”

topic: Clouds, Color, Storm, Storm Clouds

The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. He should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?

- Albert Pinkham Ryder

topic: Artist, Clouds, Color

A day without a dark cloud. Almost a happy day. There were three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days like that in his stretch. From the first clang of the rail to the last clang of the rail. Three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days. The three extra days were for leap years.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

topic: Dark, Clouds, Years, Dark Clouds

Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms.

- Alex Shoumatoff

topic: Emotional, Clouds, Elephants, Guile

The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different sizes, densities, colours and volumes, floating in space, traversing clouds, sprays of water, currents of air, viscosities and odours - of the greatest variety and disparity.

- Alexander Calder

source: "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists, Harper & Row, New York and Evanston, Illinois". Interview with Katherine Kuh, 1962.

topic: Circles, Space, Clouds, Floating In Space, Disk

I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! â€¦ I have been able to hear a shadow, and I have even perceived by ear the passage of a cloud across the sun's disk.

- Alexander Graham Bell

topic: Laughter, Clouds, Laughing, Disk

Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Moving, Clouds, Eagles

Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.

- Alexander Pope

topic: God, Clouds, Wind, Milky Way

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Clouds, Wind, Mind, Milky Way

We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.

- Alexander Smith

topic: Sweet, Lonely, Clouds, Lonely Path

Wafted up, The stealing cloud with soft grey blinds the sky And in its vapory mantle onward steps The summer shower.

- Alfred Billings Street

source: Alfred Billings Street (1850). “The Poems of Alfred B. Street”, p.20

topic: Summer, Clouds, Sky

Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Fire, Clouds, West, Sky And Clouds

Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind, One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea, One in many, O broken and blind, One as the waves are at one with the sea! Ay! when life seems scattered apart, Darkens, ends as a tale that is told, One, we are one, O heart of my heart, One, still one, while the world grows old.

- Alfred Noyes

source: Alfred Noyes (2008). “The Golden Hynde”, p.144, Wildside Press LLC

topic: Life, Heart, Clouds

Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

topic: Beauty, Clouds, Rose

The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.

- Ali ibn Abi Talib

topic: Clouds, Passing Away, Alive

I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.

- Alice Cooper

topic: Fun, Clouds, Opening Up

There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in the rain and the ones that left a trace of lemon on your fingers, the ones that were the color of blood, and those that were as white as clouds. Each one was sweeter than the next and as red as gemstones.

- Alice Hoffman

topic: Rain, Clouds, Blue

Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.

- Alice Meynell

topic: Clouds, Rome, Age

We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one of the most majestic of all secondary lights.

- Alice Meynell

source: Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.277, eBookIt.com

topic: Sunshine, Clouds, Light, Moonshine

Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud.

- Alice Meynell

source: Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.122, eBookIt.com

topic: Spring, Autumn, Clouds

The cloud controls the light ... It is the cloud that, holding the sun's rays in a sheaf as a giant holds a handful of spears, strikes the horizon, touches the extreme edge with a delicate revelation of light, or suddenly puts it out and makes the foreground shine.

- Alice Meynell

topic: Clouds, Light, Shining, Foreground

There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.

- Amanda Palmer

topic: Art, Clouds, Shame, Bedfellows

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Sarcastic, Clouds, Silver

Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Friendship, Clouds, Sun

Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

- Amy Winehouse

topic: Taken, Clouds, Black, Hang Over, Black Clouds

The cloud represents the creative power of the mind, which can assume any imaginable form. It is the ideal medium of creation for the enlightened mind, which manifests itself on the plane of timeless meditative vision.

- Anagarika Govinda

topic: Clouds, Creative, Vision

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

- Anais Nin

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Strength, Clouds, Sky, Appease, Clouds And Stars

I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds.

- Anais Nin

topic: Sleep, Clouds, Feet

The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys. Its feet were sticking out because the clouds did not cover it altogether. There was a hole in them and the white feathers were falling out. The city had untied all its bridges like so many buttons to feel at ease. Wherever there was a lamplight the city scratched itself until it went out.

- Anais Nin

topic: Fall, Clouds, Bridges, Sticking Out, Snoring

the mighty main sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.

- Anaximenes of Miletus

topic: Clouds, Wind, Sea

The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.

- Andre Breton

topic: Stars, Night, Clouds

Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.

- Andrew Greeley

topic: Clouds, Mushrooms, Important

The sun doesn't lose its beauty when covered by the clouds. The same way your beauty doesn't fade when being covered by Hijab

- Angelina Jolie

topic: Clouds, Hijab, Way

Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.

- Ann Beattie

source: Ann Beattie (2010). “Walks With Men: Fiction”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

topic: Moving, Clouds, Long, Cursive, Blackboard

But here, in the murk of conflagration, where scarcely a friend is left to know we, the survivors, do not flinch from anything, not from a single blow. Surely the reckoning will be made after the passing of this cloud. We are the people without tears, straighter than you ... more proud...

- Anna Akhmatova

topic: Blow, Clouds, People

God wove a web of loveliness, Of clouds and stars and birds, But made not anything at all, So beautiful as words.

- Anna Hempstead Branch

source: Anna Hempstead Branch, “Songs For My Mother”

topic: Beautiful, Stars, Clouds, Clouds And Stars

Green pastures are before me, which yet I have not seen; Bright skies will soon be o'er me, where the dark clouds have been. My hope I cannot measure, my path to life is free, My Savior has my treasure, and He will walk with me.

- Anna Laetitia Waring

source: Anna Laetitia Waring, “In Heavenly Love Abiding”

topic: Dark, Sky, Clouds, Pastures, Green Pastures

We didn't speak, just drove out of the city into the countryside on our way to absolutely nowhere, and when we found that perfect spot among the trees, we stopped and looked at each other. Swallows swooped through the red sky, back from their adventure, and we held each other underneath the ketchup clouds, willing time to stop and the world to forget us for a while.

- Annabel Pitcher

topic: Adventure, Clouds, Sky, Ketchup

Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to you, while a chilling voice thundered, "We *told* you not to tell." But that was then. Just put down on paper everything you can remember now about your parents and siblings and relatives and neighbors, and we will deal with libel later on.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Sibling, Thinking, Clouds, Libel

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

- Annie Dillard

topic: Spiritual, Clouds, Air, Spiritual Energy, Sun Shines

When I'm asked about my work, I try to explain that there is no mystery involved. It is work. But things happen all the time that are unexpected, uncontrolled, unexplainable, even magical. The work prepares you for that moment. Suddenly the clouds roll in and the soft light you longed for appears.

- Annie Leibovitz

topic: Clouds, Light, Trying, Unexplainable

Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Lying, Clouds, Sea, Dashing, Great Aviation

Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.

- Antony Hewish

topic: Clouds, Wind, Height, Plasma

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?

- Aristophanes

topic: Clouds, Centaurs, Bulls, Sky And Clouds

Too much! Wait till you have lived here longer. Look down the valley! See the cloud of a hundred chimneys that overshadows it! I tell you that the cloud of murder hangs thicker and lower than that over the heads of the people. It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn. Wait, young man, and you will learn for yourself.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Heart, Men, Clouds, Valley Of Death, Chimneys

The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Lying, Clouds, Feet

To the one who delights in the sovereignty of God the clouds not only have a 'silver lining' but they are silver all through, the darkness only serving to offset the light!

- Arthur W. Pink

topic: Christian, Clouds, Light, Sovereignty Of God

I can't do nothin except try to find cloud nine.

- Assata Shakur

topic: Clouds, Trying, Nine, Cloud Nine

Where did I learn to understand sculpture? In the woods by looking at the trees, along roads by observing the formation of clouds, in the studio by studying the model, everywhere except in the schools.

- Auguste Rodin

topic: School, Clouds, Tree

In the same way that a tornado rips the roof off a double-wide trailer, leaving the occupants dazed and staring at the clouds from the splinters of what used to be their living room, it was over.

- Augusten Burroughs

topic: Rip, Clouds, Leaving, Living Room, Dazed

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

- Augustus Hare

topic: Good Day, Clouds, Black, Black Clouds

What if everyone goes on the endless road Sooner or later Over the clouds to the sky Be sure to wait for me. And then, we will talk away About our countless memories.

- Ayumi Hamasaki

topic: Memories, Clouds, Sky, Wait For Me, Endless Roads

During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like the clouds which are spreading in the sky.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Moving, Clouds, Sky

In a process that had begun in the 1980s and suddenly accelerated in the early 2000s ... [t]he peaks of great wealth grew higher, rising up beyond the clouds, while the valleys of poverty sank lower into perpetual shadow. The once broad plateau of the middle class eroded away into a narrow ledge, with the white-knuckled occupants holding on for dear life.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

topic: Clouds, Class, White, Dear Life, Ledges

He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below

- Barbara Taylor Bradford

source: FaceBook post by Barbara Taylor Bradford from Aug 06, 2014

topic: Hate, Clouds, Snow

Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.

- Barbara Walters

topic: Airplane, Clouds, Rainbow, Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Above The Clouds

My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four walls of a house of worship, but everywhere - in the rising sun over Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, a splash of water along the nearby Salt or Verde rivers, or clouds driving over the Estrella Mountains, south of downtown. I've always thought of God in those terms.

- Barry Goldwater

topic: Mother, Wall, Clouds, Four Walls, Houses Of Worship

The clouds are scudding across the moon, A misty light is on the sea; The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune, And the foam is flying free.

- Bayard Taylor

topic: Moon, Clouds, Light, Flying Free, Shrouds

No matter how strong the storm, how hard the rain and how vicious the wind there is always a gap in the clouds for the light to shine through

- Ben Greenhalgh

topic: Strong, Rain, Clouds

And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Country, Men, Clouds, Paratroopers, Descending

Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline, or a tree. Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line... Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity.

- Benoit Mandelbrot

source: Michael Frame, Benoit Mandelbrot (2002). “Fractals, Graphics, and Mathematics Education”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

topic: Nature, Lying, Clouds, Fractals, Coastline

Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

- Benoit Mandelbrot

topic: Clouds, Circles, Mountain

A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale

- Benoit Mandelbrot

topic: Clouds, Looks, Smooth, Fractals, Irregularity

... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

- Bernard Malamud

topic: Believe, Clouds, Sky, Windy, Entitled

Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.

- Beryl Markham

topic: Distance, Clouds, Years

Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things.

- Bhartrhari

topic: Rain, Clouds, People, Gentle Rain

This is not what it is like to be you, I realized as a few of your magnificent clouds flew over the rooftop. It is just me thinking about being you. And before I headed back down the hill, I walked in a circle around your house, making an invisible line which you would have to cross before dark.

- Billy Collins

topic: Dark, Thinking, Clouds

... the same hand that made trees and fields and flowers, the seas and hills, the clouds and sky, has been making a home for us called heaven.

- Billy Graham

topic: Flower, Home, Clouds

I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.

- Billy Joel

topic: Believe, Clouds, Important

Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.

- Black Elk

topic: Clouds, White, Mountain, Hills And Mountains, Snowy

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.

- Black Elk

topic: Rain, Clouds, Grandfather, Storm Clouds, Drought

We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.

- Black Kettle

topic: War, Dark, Clouds, Kettles, Black Clouds

For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism that is inherent in, and proper and indispensable to action, for without it nothing would ever be undertaken. It in no way suppresses the critical sense or clouds the judgment. On the contrary this optimism sharpens the wits, it creates a certain perspective and, at the last moment, lets in a ray of perpendicular light which illuminates all one's previous calculations, cuts and shuffles them and deals you the card of success, the winning number.

- Blaise Cendrars

topic: Cutting, Winning, Clouds, Shuffle

A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It seemed to me that I was coming out of a suffocating nightmare and that the low clouds flying before the wind were the shreds of an evil dream.

- Blaise Cendrars

topic: Dream, Clouds, Wind

The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.

- Bob Barr

topic: Clouds, Government, Office, Storm Clouds, Lining Up

The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.

- Bob Brown

topic: Clouds, Government, Land

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

- Bob Dylan

topic: Clouds, Next, Moments, Pensive

Upon four-legged forest clouds the cowboy angel rides

- Bob Dylan

topic: Angel, Cowboy, Clouds

Microsoft and Dell have been building, implementing and operating massive cloud operations for years. Now we are extending our longstanding partnership to help usher in the new era of cloud computing, by giving customers and partners the ability to deploy the Windows Azure platform in their own datacenters.

- Bob Muglia

topic: Clouds, Years, Giving, Computing, Dell

Let's build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky.

- Bob Ross

source: Attributed to Bob Ross in "Painter Bob Ross remains an iconic figure years after his death" by Ann Curry, NBC News, September 22, 2004.

topic: Clouds, Sky, Littles

We want our happy little clouds to float across the sky

- Bob Ross

topic: Clouds, Sky, Want

Think about a cloud. Just float around and be there.

- Bob Ross

topic: Thinking, Clouds

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.

- Bob Woodward

topic: Clouds, Political, Doubt

If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?

- Bodhidharma

topic: Nature, Clouds, Mind, Pointing, Erudition

They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet.

- Boris Pasternak

topic: Passion, Clouds, Sky, Doctor Zhivago

The clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country. They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.

- Boris Yeltsin

topic: Country, Night, Clouds

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

- Brendan Gill

source: BRENDAN GILL (1975). “HER AT THE NEW YORKER”

topic: Butterfly, Eye, Clouds, Paragraph

This is what we see when we look up at Rainier, the beauty, the horror, the awe the unbelievability of size that confirms our own consequence on this earth. We look at the mountain, like god and can imagine nothing larger. Its incompressible life-span reminds us of the fleeting mortality of our own bones. It looms over our lives on clear days and and stay present but hidden through the clouds of winter. Like god it remains everywhere forever.

- Bruce Barcott

topic: Winter, Clouds, Forever, Clear Day

I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.

- Bruce Sterling

topic: Clouds, September 11, Age

We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.

- Bruce Sterling

topic: War, Clouds, Mushrooms

It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.

- Bruce Sterling

topic: Clouds, Development, Silver, Technological Development

That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, .. Until it's rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that.

- Cal Ripken, Jr.

topic: Baseball, Thinking, Clouds, Steroid, Black Clouds

Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.

- Carl David Anderson

source: Carl David Anderson (1937). “The Production and Properties of Positrons ...”

topic: Clouds, Fundamentals, Systematic, Wilson, Atomic Structure

At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the plashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons.

- Carl Jung

topic: Animal, Clouds, Tree, Procession

There are some viviparous flies, which bring forth 2,000 young. These in a little time would fill the air, and like clouds intercept the rays of the sun, unless they were devoured by birds, spiders, and many other animals.

- Carl Linnaeus

topic: Animal, Air, Clouds, Little Time

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

- Carl Sandburg

topic: Clouds, Bird, Woods, Wild Birds

I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.

- Carly Simon

source: Song: You're So Vain, Album: No Secrets, 1972

topic: Dream, Coffee, Clouds, Caffeine, Great Coffee

You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself.

- Carly Simon

source: Song: That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be, Album: Carly Simon, 1971

topic: Relationship, Clouds, Two, Two Birds

The visibility at the best of times is liable to be a bit haxy due to clouds of ignorance.

- Carroll Smith

topic: Ignorance, Clouds, Visibility

I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? ...They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax. Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.

- Carson McCullers

topic: Falling In Love, Men, Clouds

England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.

- Caryl Churchill

source: Caryl Churchill (2013). “Serious Money”, p.59, A&C Black

topic: Children, Fall, Clouds

I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am.

- Caspar David Friedrich

source: "Authenticity and Fiction in the Russian Literary Journey, 1790-1840". Book by Andreas Schönle, p. 108, 2000.

topic: Order, Clouds, Rocks

I try and stay positive; being negative isn't good for my personality. I don't just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It's like a dark cloud, 'Uh oh, here we go,' and have to snap out of it.

- Catherine Zeta-Jones

topic: Dark, Clouds, Stay Positive, Dark Clouds

Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.

- Cato the Elder

topic: Anger, Clouds, Mind

You are sitting and smoking; you believe that you are sitting in your pipe, and that your pipe is smoking you; you are exhaling yourself in bluish clouds. You feel just fine in this position, and only one thing gives you worry or concern: how will you ever be able to get out of your pipe?

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Believe, Clouds, Worry, Exhaling

The poet is like the prince of clouds Who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer; Exiled on the ground in the midst of jeers, His giant wings prevent him from walking.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Archer, Clouds, Wings

I love the clouds... the clouds that pass by... over there... over there... those lovely clouds!

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Love, Clouds, Lovely

The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Archer, Clouds, Wings, Stormy Days

Cloud-flying requires practice, even if you have every modern instrument, and unless you keep calm and collected you will get into trouble after you have been inside a really thick one for a few minutes. In the very early days of aviation, 1912 to be correct, I emerged from a cloud upside down, much to my discomfort, as I didn't know how to get right way up again. I found out somehow, or I wouldn't be writing this.

- Charles Rumney Samson

topic: Writing, Clouds, Practice, Pilots And Flying

If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.

- Charles Simic

topic: Fall, Clouds, Sky

A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines; and little sins do mischief to the tender heart. These little sins burrow in the soul, and make it so full of that which is hateful to Christ, that he will hold no comfortable fellowship and communion with us. A great sin cannot destroy a Christian, but a little sin can make him miserable....

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Christian, Heart, Clouds, Tender Hearts

This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it breaks, and overshadows before it yields its deluge of mercy. Depression has now become to me as a prophet in rough clothing, a John the Baptist, heralding the nearer coming of my Lord's richer benison

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Blessing, Clouds, Yield, John The Baptist, Deluge

If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might as well hunt after the mirage of the desert or try to collect the mists of the morning, or to store up for yourself the clouds of the sky, for all these things are passing away.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Morning, Clouds, Sky

Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train.

- Charles Wesley

topic: Clouds, Triumph, Saint

When Franklin drew the lightning from the clouds, he little dreamed that in the evolution of science his discovery would illuminate the torch of Liberty for France and America. The rays from this beacon, lighting this gateway to the continent, will welcome the poor and the persecuted with the hope and promise of homes and citizenship.

- Chauncey Depew

source: Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1902). “The Library of Oratory: Ancient and Modern, with Critical Studies of the World's Great Orators by Eminent Essayists”

topic: Home, Clouds, Discovery, Persecuted

The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away. It was - I don't know how to explain it - as if everything solid melted away into the ether, eliminating all individualtiy and absorbing us, rigid, into the immense darkness. Not a single cloud to lend perspective to the space blocked any portion of the starry sky.

- Che Guevara

topic: Stars, Night, Clouds, Starry Sky, Night Sky

We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.

- Chogyam Trungpa

topic: Buddhist, Attitude, Clouds, Different Attitude

It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was a broken blue bowl and a child was trying to keep honey in it.

- Chris Cleave

source: Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

topic: Children, Sunshine, Clouds, Warm, Bowls

You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day you realize you've been carrying the weather around with you.