“We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.” NeedsMeanHandsGirlCareersTechnologyMathEngineeringDeckNavigateHurdleClearingScience Technology Author:Michelle Obama
“I pray we... come to this darkness so far above light! If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see, so as to know, unseeing and unknowing, that which lies beyond all vision and knowledge. For this would be really to see and to know: to praise the Transcendent One in a transcending way... We would be like sculptors who set out to carve a statue. They remove every obstacle to the pure view of the hidden image, and simply by the act of clearing aside they show up the beauty which is hidden.” IfsKnowsWayShowsLightWould BeChristianLyingViewsVisionDarknessPrayingPureSightPraiseObstaclesRemoveOrthodoxStatuesI PrayOrthodox ChristianTranscendentSculptorsClearingTranscendingUnknowing Author:Pope Dionysius
“The practice of imagination, on an everyday basis, involves clearing unhelpful images that block or misdirect our energies, and choosing to focus on positive, mobilizing imagery that gives us courage and confidence.” GivingEnergyImaginationPracticeFocusBasesEverydayBlockImageryClearing Author:Robert Moss
“[Commuting by bicycle is] an absolutely essential part of my day. It's mind-clearing, invigorating. I get to go out and pedal through the countryside in the early morning hours, and see life come back and rejuvenate every day as the sun is coming out.” MindHoursMorningSunEssentialsComing OutBicycleCountrysideCyclingEarly MorningClearingPedalsInvigoratingCommuting Author:James L. Jones
“Life is about making choices: you can either spend three quid on a glossy magazine or you can spend it clearing three square metres of minefield and help give people their lives back. As simple as that.” PeopleGivingHelpingLife IsChoicesThreeSimpleMagazinesSquaresClearingMaking ChoicesLandminesMinefields Author:Twiggy
“USA Today reports that the number of death row executions this year has hit a 35-year low. They attribute that to DNA evidence clearing more people and the fact that Rick Perry has been on the road campaigning.” PeopleYearsHas BeensFactsTodayNumbersLowsEvidenceUsaReportsAttributesExecutionDnaClearingCampaigningDeath RowDna Evidence Author:Jay Leno
“We're great, Jo and me. We're pals, and I guess sex has a lot to do with it. She's also brilliant at clearing a room. So protective, so devoted. I can't believe how much she loves me.” BelieveI CanSexRoomsBrilliantDevotedProtectiveBrilliant IdeasClearingPals Author:Ronnie Wood
“The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind a distant hill, the noble sun rose up, driving the mists in phantom shapes before it, and clearing the earth of their ghostly forms till darkness came again.” EarthFormNightStarsNatureBehindsMorningDarknessSunGrewColdShapesMoonRoseNobleDrivingHillsPaleMistPhantomsClearing Book:A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens Source: A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens
“Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire, free of grasping, free of ego, free of the self-contraction. And through that opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity; who can say otherwise, when time itself is supendend in the clearing that great art creates in your awareness?” MayArtSelfMomentsMightDesireAwarenessHigherQuietEgoConnectionsEternityProfoundOpeningRevelationsGreat ArtYou AgainGraspingClearingContractions Author:Ken Wilber
“Thus, in its relation to Christianity, intelligent design should be viewed as a ground-clearing operation that gets rid of the intellectual rubbish that for generations has kept Christianity from receiving serious consideration.” ShouldChristianityGenerationsDesignSeriousIntellectualRelationIntelligentOperationsConsiderationReceivingRubbishClearingIntelligent Design Author:William A. Dembski
“As far as I understand, the Second Coming is already here. It's a consciousness. It is not someone who is going to arrive and land in a clearing in the forest. The Hell that they talk of is going to be people creating their own unhappiness, a Hell on Earth.” PeopleEarthConsciousnessHellLandCreatingForestsUnhappinessClearingHell On Earth Author:Jane Siberry
“Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves, mythical prohibitions and intractability? That is subversive. And welcome.” SometimesReaderWindowWelcomePetServingThrowingProhibitionDeckSubversiveClearingPeevesPet Peeve Author:Craig Lancaster
“Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people, was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure corners in one's own mind.” PeopleMindMeanScienceExperienceCornersConvincedObscureClearingLecturing Author:Thomas Huxley