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“Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical heros of antiquity, and to receive its apotheosis among the stars before men became fully aware that it had vanished from the earth!”

Men Earth Fall Stars Hero Clouds Rome Antiquity Apotheosis

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle; dying, their souls enter a gray misty realm of clouds and icy winds, to wander cheerlessly throughout eternity.”

Source: CONAN THE BARBARIAN SERIES – Complete Collection (Fantasy & Action-Adventure Classics): Pre-historic world of dark magic and savagery - 20 books about the Cimmerian Barbarian, Thief, Pirate and Eventual King of Aquilonia During the pre-Ice Age, Hyborian Age, Featuring a Poem and an Essay

“The '90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender and family structures, and also in fashion. There was a cloud of possibilities which kept us all dizzy.”

Century Fashion Possibility Economics Structure Clouds Gender Diverse Laboratory Dizzy

Author:Jil Sander

“Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common every-day beauty.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.”

Mind Humans Eye Language Stars Difficult Written Air Wind Ears Clouds Substance Human Mind Human Eyes Written Language Spoken Language

Book:The Wilderness Journeys

Source: The Wilderness Journeys

“When we look at clouds we see different shapes. See all the grace you can.”

Looks Different Grace Shapes Clouds

Author:Sark

“Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.”

Fall Left Behinds Clouds Showers Starlight Sunbeams

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“No cloud above, no earth below, A universe of sky and snow.”

Earth Universe Stars Air Sky Wind Clouds Snow

Book:Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

“Who reports the works and ways of the clouds, those wondrous creations coming into being every day like freshly upheaved mountains?”

Way Creation Mountain Clouds Reports Wondrous

Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers.”

Fall Water Sky Rocks Mountain Rivers Luck Clouds Good Work Thunder Cliffs Good Luck Waterfalls Descending Raindrops Falling Water

Book:Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.”

People Ifs Giving Feels States Play Force Power Issues Violence Comfort Draws Clouds Refuse Distinction Elephants Comforting Rabbits

Author:Kenneth Kaunda

“A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October Summery On the hill's shoulder.”

Nature Sun Clouds Shoulders Hills Rolling October Larks Whistling Roadside Blackbirds

Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow.”

Gold Clouds Snow Wander Butterfly Perpetual Idle

Book:Songs of the Sun-lands

Source: Songs of the Sun-lands

“GE is falling under the same cloud of the market as a whole. Investors are not focused on the positives that are occurring like corporate profitability.”

Whole Fall Clouds Focused Corporate Investors Profitability

Author:James Fisher

“After what seemed like an eternity, we finally reached the summit just as the sun was rising. I couldn't believe that we had actually done it. We were standing at the highest point in all of Africa, looking down at the clouds below us, with the sun directly in front of us, its rays welcoming us to the beginning of a new day. It didn't seem like this was something that humans were meant to experience, yet here we were”

Believe Humans Done Seems Motivational Sun Fronts Highest Standing Eternity Clouds Welcome Rising Rays Summit New Day Looking Down

Book:Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

Source: Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“The most successful way to combat these dark clouds that come between the light of you and that which you love, is to feel that love itself will rescue you.”

Way Feels Light Dark Love Is Successful Yoga Clouds Combat Rescue Bhakti Yoga Dark Clouds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Through waves and clouds and storms His power will clear your way; Wait for his time; the darkest night Shall end in brightest day.”

Way Ends Night Waiting Clear Encouragement Clouds Wave Storm Encouraging

Author:Paul Gerhardt

“You can't enter a contest emotionally charged. It clouds your judgment, it clouds your reaction.”

Judgment Clouds Reactions Mma Contests

Author:Conor McGregor

“There's the moon asking to stay long enough for the clouds to fly me away”

Long Enough Expression Moon Asking Clouds

Author:Jeff Buckley

“I can see clearly now that the rain is gone, I can see all obstacles in my way. Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind, it's gonna be a bright, bright sun shining day.”

Way I Can Dark Sun Gone Future Rain Blind Shining Clouds Obstacles My Way Premonition Dark Clouds

Author:Johnny Nash

“Behind every cloud is another cloud.”

Author:Judy Garland

“Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain.”

People Persons Simple Brain Mercy Clouds Attributes Electricity Temperament Drifting

Author:Jonathan Nolan

“What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose its shape.”

Doe Loses Painting Shapes Clouds Colour Spray

Author:Jules Olitski

“Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd; As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.”

Dream Past Dark Remains Clouds Shade Sole Remnants Images Of Love

Book:A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies

Source: A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies

“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.”

Different Form Universe Water Space Air Clouds Size Currents Circles Variety Colour Spheres Volume Floating Simplest Vary Spray Disparity Density Disk Floating In Space

Author:Alexander Calder

“After Andy Warhol died, it left a dark cloud over N.Y.C. nightlife.”

Left Dark Died Clouds Warhol Dark Clouds Nightlife

Author:Theophilus London

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

Bits Ignorance Clouds Dues Liable Visibility

Author:Carroll Smith

“The darkness is not so dense as it was; there are faint streaks on the horizon's verge; mist is in the valleys, but there is a radiance on the distant hill. It comes nearer--that promise of the day. The clouds roll rapidly away, and they are fringed with amber and gold. It is, it is the blest sunlight that I feel around me--Morning! It is morning!”

Feels Morning Darkness Promise Gold Clouds Hills Horizon Valleys Sunlight Mist Verge Radiance Dense Streaks Amber

Book:John Bunyan, a lecture

Source: John Bunyan, a lecture

“Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.”

World Long Suffering Term Imagination Views Powerful Imagine Blind Profound Clouds Passing Passings Permanent Analysis Long Term Conventional

Book:The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

“The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment; even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.”

Philosophy Certain Literature Feet Inspire Spring Ideals Clouds Feminine Sentiments Flavor Science Love

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.”

Watches Clouds Horizon Quarters New Horizons North And South

Author:Elizabeth Gaskell

“Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft in sleep: And one is of an old half-witted sheep Which bleats articulate monotony, And indicates that two and one are three, That grass is green, lakes damp, and mountains steep And, Wordsworth, both are thine.”

Source: The prelude: with a selection from the shorter poems, the sonnets, The recluse, and The excursion, and three essays on the art of poetry

“Some people are never content with their lot, let what will happen. Clouds and darkness are over their heads, alike whether it rain or shine. To them every incident is an accident, and every accident a calamity.”

People Happens Darkness Rain Shining Clouds Accidents Complaints Calamity Incidents Rain Or Shine

Book:Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book

Source: Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book

“Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.”

Book:Seraphita: Works of Balzac

Source: Seraphita: Works of Balzac

“We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights.”

Use Light Desire Wind Shadow Train Clouds Carrie Phantoms Straws

Book:The Country of the Blind: H. G. Wells Collections

Source: The Country of the Blind: H. G. Wells Collections

“However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced or distrustful eyes of others. They may know better, but their feelings are governed by popular prejudice. Nay, they are more shy of us (when under a cloud) than even strangers; for we involve them in a common disgrace, or compel them to embroil themselves in continual quarrels and disputes in our defense.”

Thinking Knows World May Feelings Eye Common Higher Prejudice Clouds Stranger Defense Contrary Shy Disputes Quarrels Disgrace

Book:Liber Amoris and Related Writings

Source: Liber Amoris and Related Writings

“Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth Of all sweet sounds the life and element!”

Soul Light Earth Sound Voice Issues Sweet Birth Elements Glory Fairs Clouds Luminous

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Never king dropped out of the clouds.”

Atheism Kings Clouds Positive Atheism

Book:Table Talk: With a Biographical Pref. and Notes

Source: Table Talk: With a Biographical Pref. and Notes

“The garden rose may richly bloom In cultured soil and genial air, To cloud the light of Fashion's room Or droop in Beauty's midnight hair, In lonelier grace, to sun and dew The sweetbrier on the hillside shows Its single leaf and fainter hue, Untrained and wildly free, yet still a sister rose!”

May Stills Shows Light Rooms Sun Grace Air Fashion Hair Garden Rose Clouds Soil Leafs Midnight Dew Hue

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.”

Sun Air Blood Wind Climate Clouds Weather Ice Desert Dry Sand Blinded Ivory Frigid Thin Air Sand Dunes

Author:Marge Piercy

“I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare their unsatisfactoriness by becoming fervent Advocates in the cause of Christ, & I wish you may give in your Evidence in this way. Such instances have seldom occurred, therefore they would be more striking and would be instead of a "Cloud of Witnesses.”

Source: The Papers of James Madison

“At the moment, it actually says nothing about a possible cosmic-ray effect on clouds and climate, but it's a very important first step.” This may be because he was ordered to speak circumspectly. According to science writer Nigel Calder, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the director of the CERN lab, told a German newspaper that “I have asked the colleagues to present the results clearly, but not to interpret them. That would go immediately into the highly political arena of the climate change debate. One has to make clear that cosmic radiation is only one of many parameters.”

“Historic accounts of the lives of great masters have told of rainbows and other special signs, like the rain of flowers, and of special clouds that appeared, witnessed by people on very special occasions and at auspicious events.”

People Special Events Flower Masters Rain Accounts Clouds Occasions Rainbow Historic Special Occasion

Author:Jamgon Kongtrul

“It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy would not get it through his head that for all adults God is not an old man in a white beard sitting on a cloud. As far as this boy was concerned, this old gentleman was the adult's god, and therefore he did not believe in God.”

Men Trying Believe White Views Boys Middle Sitting Adults Concerned Clouds Refuse Point Of View Gentleman Old Man Believe In God Beard Middle Aged

Book:The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention

Source: The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention

“Nature is objective, and nature is knowable, but we can only view her through a glass darkly and many clouds upon our vision are of our own making: social and cultural biases, psychological preferences, and mental limitations (in universal modes of thought, not just individualized stupidity).”

Social Views Vision Universal Clouds Glasses Stupidity Objectives Psychological Limitation Preference

Book:Full House

Source: Full House

“The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse above the clouds beyond the sight of lesser men, a concept seldom applied to those who worked with colours until the nineteenth century. When the inevitable question is asked, "Why are there no great women artists?" it is this dimension of art that is implied. The askers know little of art, but they know the seven wonders of the painting world.”

Source: The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work

“The sky was horribly dark , but one could distinctly see tattered clouds , and between them fathomless black patches. Suddenly I noticed in one of these patches a star , and began watching it intently. That was because that star had given me an idea : I decided to kill myself that night .”

Ideas Night Given Stars Black Dark Sky Decided Clouds Patches

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.”

Shadow Clouds Seeds Passing Passings Mortals Smoke

Book:The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes

Source: The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes

“The rising sun complies with our weak sight, First gilds the clouds, then shows his globe of light At such a distance from our eyes, as though He knew what harm his hasty beams would do.”

Firsts Shows Light Eye Sun Weak Sight Distance Clouds Harm Rising Globes Sunrise Beam Hasty Sun Rise

Book:The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham

Source: The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham

“When all the dark clouds roll away And the sun begins to shine I see my freedom from across the way And it comes right in on time Well it shines so bright and it gives so much light And it comes from the sky above Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me And lights my life with love.”

Way Giving Feels Wells Light Dark Sun Sky Shining Clouds Like Me Dark Clouds

Author:Van Morrison