Quotes with clouds

Quotes 21 till 39 of 39.

  • Alexis de Tocqueville Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Helen Hunt Jackson O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.
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  • Robert Browning One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • William Wordsworth Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Sir John Lubbock Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Washington Irving Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • William Shakespeare That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bayard Taylor 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
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Albert Camus The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Bob Barr 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
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Carl Sandburg 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
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Bill Nye There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it's like being 900 meters deep in the ocean.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Adam Weishaupt This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Antony Hewish 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
    British radio astronomer (1924 - )
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  • Paul Tillich We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
    Paul Tillich
    German-American theologian and philosopher (1886 - 1965)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Henry David Thoreau You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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