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“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”

Source: Desert Solitaire

“Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.”

Clouds Veils Shrouds

Author:Honore de Balzac

“I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.”

World Earth Hours Mountain Bounds Clouds Flight Aviation Over It Great Aviation Aviator

Book:The wartime journals of Charles A. Lindbergh

Source: The wartime journals of Charles A. Lindbergh

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”

“God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.”

Writing Stars Nature Tree Flower Environmental Clouds Dark Clouds Sky And Clouds Clouds And Stars Clouds Sky

Author:Martin Luther

“Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy.”

Men Earth Heaven Fantasy Angel Clouds Another Man Harps

Author:John Lydon

“Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.”

“Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.”

Littles Sometimes Funny Hope Difficult Humorous Difficulty Clouds Witty Silver Mint Funny Motivational Lining Up

Book:Archy and Mehitabel

Source: Archy and Mehitabel

“A lot of the time, I write a lot of angry stuff, but then I don't want to be a finger-pointer - I'd rather be a cheerleader than a judge. I don't want to preach as if I'm in some position of righteousness, but I do want to speak my mind and scream at the clouds and shout out of the pit of hopelessness that I sometimes think the human race is in.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Mind Humans Sometimes Speak Stuff Race Position Judging Angry Fingers Clouds Human Race Righteousness Scream Hopelessness Pits Cheerleader Pointers Shout Out

Author:Dave Matthews

“Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.”

Men Way Art Dark Civilization Clouds Cruelty Silver Heroic Courtesy Gallery Refinement Dark Clouds Baseness

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.”

Ifs Long Enough Happiness Clouds Staring Happy Go Lucky Evaporation

Author:Sarah McLachlan

“Spiritual people don't float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.”

People World Way Real Spiritual Deals Issues Glory Clouds Real World Floats

Book:Hearing from God Each Morning: 365 Daily Devotions

Source: Hearing from God Each Morning: 365 Daily Devotions

“Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.”

Looks Today Life Is Dark Behinds Teach Clouds Golden Anticipation Encouraging Beam Morrow Dark Clouds

Book:Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush

Source: Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush

“Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.”

“Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.”

Mind Kind Moments Literature Break Clouds Steady Perpetual Flash Serenity Lightning Gloom Daylight Cheerfulness Glitter Break Through Mirth Clouds And Stars

Author:Joseph Addison

“Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.”

Opportunity Dark Sky Economic Blue Clouds Emerging Blue Sky Dark Clouds

Author:Rick Perry

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

Mind God Poor Wind Clouds Indian Milky Way

Author:Alexander Pope

“Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.”

Lasts Clear Trust Remains Clouds Complicated Ingredients Cocktails Never Trust

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.”

Light Stars Self Esteem Self Love Shadow All Things Clouds Self Worth Reverence Thyself Anorexia Eating Disorder Light And Shadow Above The Clouds

Author:Pythagoras

“The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”

Want Problem Weapons Gun Clouds Nuclear Uncertainty Acquire Smoking Marijuana Nuclear Weapons Saddam Mushrooms

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.”

Writing Walks Fiction Sun Wall Paint Bottom Shoes Clouds Corners Cups Luxury Pairs Nonfiction Writing Nonfiction Skylights

Author:Tom Robbins

“I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon which the Sun so violently darted his Rays, that the Heat, which attracted them, as it does the thickest Clouds, carried me up so high, that at length I found my self above the middle Region of the Air.”

Doe Self Found Sun Air Middle Clouds Glasses Heat Regions Length Rays Tied Dew

Book:A Voyage to the Moon: Souls Needed for You

Source: A Voyage to the Moon: Souls Needed for You

“And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the trials are there and I never know when, I have this little gray cloud that's over my head, when it's gonna start raining on me again. And I do need everyone's prayers. But I also believe that we're here for a purpose, and Mitt is prepared.”

Knows Needs Believe Littles Long Hard Purpose Prayer Rain Appreciate Prepared Clouds Trials Gray

Author:Ann Romney

“Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.”

Air Tree Wind Clouds Passing Passings Bows Passing By

Book:Poems and prose

Source: Poems and prose

“Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.”

Giving Littles Seems Together Peace Air Wind Flower Clouds Little Things Teamwork Perfume Meadows

Author:Georges Bernanos

“President Obama's reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud, hanging over the horizon could put almost 44,000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. we are not going to let that happen. You know why? Because No. 1, national defense is the first priority of the federal government.”

Knows Firsts Government Happens Jobs President Cutting Clouds Defense Priorities Horizon Stakes President Obama Federal Government Reckless Pennsylvania National Defense

Author:Paul Ryan

“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.”

Has Beens Sometimes Bird Clouds Woods Variety Wild Birds

Author:Carl Sandburg

“As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole earth, maketh the clouds his chariot, and reigns above the waterfloods as a king.”

Whole Earth Numbers Divine Kings Clouds Reign Deities Civilisation Divine Power Chariots

Book:The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

“Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.”

Air Society Wind Clouds Breathe Insufficient

Book:The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two

Source: The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two

“Google docs and spreadsheets don't work if you're on an airplane. But it's a technical problem that is going to get solved. Eventually you will be able to work on a plane as if you are connected and, then when you get reconnected to the Internet, your computer will just synchronize with the cloud.”

Ifs Problem Able Internet Computer Clouds Connected Planes Airplane Google

Author:Eric Schmidt

“I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.”

Men Moments White Sky Clouds Wave I Realized Enormous Clearing Rift

Book:South: The Endurance Expedition

Source: South: The Endurance Expedition

“Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.”

People Humans Has Beens Certain Rain Clouds Behave More Time Rainy Day Human Knowledge

Author:Herbert Simon

“My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.”

Thinking Too Much Clouds Credit Businessman Astute

Author:Steven Spielberg

“Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight.”

Pieces Sky Sight Blue Clouds Puzzles Playwright Blue Sky Jigsaw Jigsaw Puzzles

Author:Lewis Black

“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.”

World Night Language Existence This World Normal Stones Clouds Usual

Book:Poems New and Collected

Source: Poems New and Collected

“Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.”

“I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.”

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“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.”

Moving Speak Voice Nature Tree Sea Clouds Wave Natural Environment Murmuring

Author:Paul Tillich

“I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.”

“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.”

Believe Earth Spirit I Believe Walks Cat Clouds Pet Kitten Feline Funny Cat Purring Purring Cats Cat Lover Inspirational Cat Cute Cat Rescue Cats Herding Cats Nine Lives

Author:Jules Verne

“On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!”

Earth Sky Mountain Clouds Horizon Covered Thick Curtains Morrow Earth And Sky Fatality Rocky Mountain

Book:From the Earth to the Moon

Source: From the Earth to the Moon

“Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments.”

Firsts Government Nations Clouds Israel Aggression Hostile Extremist Militant

Author:John Boehner

“A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.”

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

Felt Black Taken Clouds Pills Hang Over Black Clouds

Author:Amy Winehouse

“A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.”

Soul Night Lost Dark Doors Election Presses Clouds Lifts Dark Night Gallows Dark Night Of The Soul

Author:James Wolcott

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

Political Doubt Figures Clouds Surround

Author:Bob Woodward

“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.”

Inspirational Sleep Forget Baby Birth Glory Clouds Forgetfulness Eulogy Infancy Is Funeral Memorial

Author:William Wordsworth

“I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.”

Real Honest Clouds Nostalgia Being Honest Real Things Mystic Recycling

Author:Robert Wyatt

“I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.”

Knows Poetry Hate Fighting Fate Clouds I Hate Love Above The Clouds

Author:William Butler Yeats