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“History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.”

People Political Tree Sky Economic Structure Clouds Grass Idle Snail Reefs Economic Power Troublemaker Coral Reefs

Book:Critical Path

Source: Critical Path

“Teenagers are bored. By everything. Show a teenager an actual volcanic eruption, in progress, featuring giant billowing clouds of smoke, hot rocks raining from the sky, lava floes destroying entire villages, etc., and the teenager, eyebrows arched with sarcasm, will look at you and say, "Gee, this is swell," then return to the rental car, turn on his portable CD player, and listen to a band called Stomach Contents.”

“Raindrops are beating, a large puddle is forming, there on the balcony. It all floats in Emptiness, in purest Transparency, with no one here to watch it. If there is an I, it is all that is arising, right now and right now and right now. My lungs are the sky; those mountains are my teeth; the clouds are my skin; the thunder is my heart beating time to the timeless; the rain itself, the tears of our collective estate, here where nothing is really happening.”

Source: One Taste

“The stormy March has come at last, With winds and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies.”

Lasts Sky Wind Clouds March Valleys Blast Rushing Stormy Snowy

Author:William C. Bryant

“When the sky is totally covered by the dark clouds, be strong enough to see the bright stars beyond them!”

Enough Strong Stars Dark Sky Clouds Covered Strong Enough Dark Clouds Bright Star

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“When the thick layers of dark clouds occupy the sky, if there is no wind at all to sweep them away, start blowing with courage and belief”

Ifs Belief Dark Sky Wind Clouds Thick Layers Dark Clouds

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“When there are no clouds in the sky, under the beautiful sunshine, remember the rain and repair your umbrella!”

Beautiful Remember Sky Rain Clouds Sunshine Umbrella

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. They're attached to people. If you're looking for an opportunity, you're really looking for a person.”

People Ifs Persons Opportunity Sky Clouds Floats

Author:Reid Hoffman

“Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars Makest to teem the many-voyaged main And fruitful lands- for all of living things Through thee alone are evermore conceived, Through thee are risen to visit the great sun- Before thee, Goddess, and thy coming on, Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away, For thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers, For thee waters of the unvexed deep Smile, and the hollows of the serene sky Glow with diffused radiance for thee!”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)

“First and foremost, my hats off to our directors and camera department. That is something I will miss after Longmire. I can't imagine working on another show that looks like this. We'll get the whole crew out on location and have a hundred people standing around, waiting for about 40 minutes, so that sun is just a little bit further in the sky and the light is hitting the cloud, in the perfect way.”

“Scrape the grey sky clean, realize that every dark cloud is a smokescreen meant to blind us from the truth”

Realizing Dark Sky Blind Clean Clouds Grey Dark Clouds Grey Skies

Author:Shane Koyczan

“The limit is the sky, and I live on cloud. And I recognize my nemesis gon try, to put a finish in my shine. But pussy we'll hurt you, life in the power circle.”

Trying Hurt Sky Limits Shining Clouds Circles Pussy Nemesis

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“A whole new kind of spiritual happiness dawns in us as we realize that dark clouds do not ruin sunny skies... they merely pass through them to help us remember our love of the light.”

Kind Whole Helping Light Remember Spiritual Realizing Dark Sky Clouds Ruins Dawn Our Love Sunny Dark Clouds Spiritual Happiness

Author:Guy Finley

“If you learn to trust God when the sun is shining, it is easier to trust Him on the day when there are dark and lowering clouds in the sky and you are in one of life's storms.”

Ifs Dark Sun Sky Easier Shining Clouds Storm Trust In God

Book:1 Corinthians Through Revelation

Source: 1 Corinthians Through Revelation

“Between two thoughts try to be alert; look into the interval, the space in between. You will see no mind; that is your nature. For thoughts come and go - they are accidental - but that inner space always remains. Clouds gather and go, disappear - they are accidental - but the sky remains. You are the sky.”

Trying Mind Looks Two Space Sky Remains Clouds Disappear Comes And Goes Intervals

Author:Rajneesh

“If we become uncomfortable in any given moment, we can look at a flower, a pebble in the street or the tire on our car and be grateful. We can gaze at a person in the distance or at a cloud in the sky and be appreciative. We can smile at a stranger, hug someone we know or tidy a disorganized shelf and be thankful for the opportunity. If we choose gratitude, we will be happy!”

“The substance of mind is the substance of heaven. A joyful thought is an auspicious star or a felicitous cloud. An angry thought is a thunderstorm or a violent rain. A kind thought is a gentle breeze or a sweet dew. A stern thought is a fierce sun or an autumn frost. Which of these can be eliminated? Just let them pass away as they arise, open and unresisting, and your mind merges with the spacious sky.”

Mind Kind Heaven Stars Sun Sky Sweet Rain Angry Clouds Violent Arise Substance Gentle Taoism Autumn Fierce Joyful Breeze Dew Passing Away Frost Thunderstorm Kind Thoughts

Author:Zicheng Hong

“I thought that perhaps if the sky was truly free of clouds and any other distractions (birds, kites, skywriting), we could see if there was something else out there. I wasn't really raised in any religion (in England I attended an Anglican school and went to a Methodist church, but I left that all behind at the age of eight when we moved to the U.S.), but like most people, I sometimes wonder if there's anything or anyone out there.”

People Ifs Sometimes Age School Left Church Behinds Wonder Sky Bird England Moved Raised Clouds Eight Distraction Kites Methodists

Author:Matthea Harvey

“When a child my mother taught me the legends of our people; taught me of the sun and sky, the moon and stars, the clouds and storms. She also taught me to kneel and pray to Usen for strength, health, wisdom, and protection. We never prayed against any person, but if we had aught against any individual we ourselves took vengeance. We were taught that Usen does not care for the petty quarrels of men.”

Source: Geronimo's Story of His Life: As Told to S. M. Barrett

“Action is called karma. And that's your continuation. When this body disintegrates, you continue on with your actions. It's like the cloud in the sky. When the cloud is no longer in the sky, it hasn't died. The cloud is continued in other forms like rain or snow or ice.”

Body Action Form Sky Rain Died Clouds Karma Snow Ice Continuation

Author:Nhat Hanh

“I'm playing the Great American Songbook - all the blue-sky, puffy-cloud classics. Music that's been missing. I want to be one of the people who ushers it back in. Long as I can do that, man, I'm happy.”

People Men Want Long I Can Can Do Sky Missing Blue Clouds Great American Blue Sky

Author:Landau Eugene Murphy Jr.

“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.”

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

“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

“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

“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

“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.”

“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

“Thin clouds form, and the shadows lengthen out. They have no breadth, as summer shadows have; there are no leaves on the trees or fat clouds in the sky to make them thick. They are gaunt, mean shadows that bite the ground like teeth. As the sun nears the horizon, its benevolent yellow begins to deepen, to become infected, until it glares an angry inflamed orange. It throws a variegated glow over the horizon.”

Mean Form Sun Tree Sky Summer Shadow Angry Clouds Teeth Fats Horizon Bites Yellow Thick Orange Benevolent Breadth Glare

Book:Salem's Lot

Source: Salem's Lot

“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.”

Next Left White Blood Sky Color Red Rain Blue Rose Fingers Clouds Scent Lemons Blue Sky

Book:The River King

Source: The River King

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”

“I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing…. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black.”

Knows Real Hard Body Night Black Dark Space Sky Objects Huge Shapes Red Clouds Swamps Wrapping Pears

Author:Margaret Atwood

“As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, "Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven.”

Form Heaven Saws Sky Huge Goes On Gold Fingers Clouds Desert Borders Colorado Utah

Book:Road Novels 1957-1960

Source: Road Novels 1957-1960

“A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten chocolate in a year. A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the Strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs.”

Years Tree Sea Sky Havens Tears Kissing Clouds Legs Heat Apples Chocolate Pie Palms Melting Champagne Spotlight Vanilla Speeding Swollen Spilling Palm Trees Apple Pie Sizzling

Book:Weetzie Bat

Source: Weetzie Bat

“If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.”

Ifs Fall Sky Clouds Supper

Book:New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012

Source: New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012

“Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.”

Should Looks Light Force Stars Sides Dark Sky Danger Ideals Clouds Brilliant Surround Nevertheless Threatened Dark Forces

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how people like us suffer, she'd said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.”

Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

“People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because that is how we would build a spaceship if we were able to build one that big. But aliens, if they exist, would probably be very different from us. They might look like big slugs, or be flat like reflections. Or they might be bigger than planets. Or they might not have bodies at all. They might just be information, like in a computer. And their spaceships might look like clouds, or be made up of unconnected objects like dust or leaves.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Made Different Body Bigs Light Might Would Be Able Moving Sky Information Objects Planets Computer Reflection Bigger Clouds Dust Aliens Flats Metals Spaceships Slugs

Author:Mark Haddon

“And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him, and to water him.”

Knows Wanted Water Sky Rain Clouds Miserable Holiday Cherish Succession

Book:So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Source: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again. The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn. Around millions of clocks swing hour hands, and minute hands, and second hands. Around goes the continual circle of the notes of the scale. Around goes the circle of night and day, the circle of weeks forever revolving, and of months, and of years.”

Years Hands Night Dies Stars Born Hours Millions Sun Forever Week Sky Minutes Months Moon Rain Empty Notes Clouds Circles Scales Snow Clock Fades Swings Reborn Second Hand Sun Rise Revolving Rain And Snow

Book:Prelude

Source: Prelude

“I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky.”

Want Soul Pain Fall Morning Heard Sky Strange Sweet Eternal Blue Chaos Clouds Yellow Ancestor Gentleness Fall Back Blue Sky Funny Good Morning Morning Sky

Author:Shannon Hale

“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”

“There are bad times just around the corner, There are dark clouds travelling through the sky, And it's no good whining, About a silver lining, For we know from experience they won't roll by...”

Knows Dark Sky Clouds Corners Silver Around The Corner Whining Dark Times Dark Clouds

Author:Noel Coward

“So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below,— A universe of sky and snow!”

Source: Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier

“He'll pinch a cigarette between his fingers. He'll take a drag, blow that drag between his lips. He'll look at the firl with eyes the colour of the sky before it turns black and he will see heaven, and the pictures of all those other girls floating inside his head will blow away like the clouds of the cigarette and he'll see only the girl inside himself and the world will stop.”

World Looks Eye Turns Girl Heaven Black Sky Fingers Lips Clouds Blow Colour Drag Cigarette Floating Other Girl

Author:Maureen Medved

“You’ll join me sooner than you know in a place with . . . no illusions, where the truth is the only architecture, the only color, the only sound--where that which we sense merely on occasion, and which takes us up and gives us the rare and beautiful glimpses of the things we truly love, flows in deep rivers and tumbles about like clouds in the sky.”

Knows Giving Beautiful Sound Sky Color Truth Is Illusion Flow Rivers Clouds Architecture Occasions Glimpse

Author:Mark Helprin

“When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe! Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be.”

Thinking Knows Eye Night Voice Dark Darkness Sun Happened Heard Tree Sky Cry Quiet Safe Lows Bird Clouds Burning Remembered Breasts Rays Nests Faded Grove Hurrying Murmuring

Book:Complete Poems of Robert Frost: 1949

Source: Complete Poems of Robert Frost: 1949

“When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.”

World Sound Saws Doors Sky Fields Arms Higher West Clouds Spread March Thunder Mist Sinking Drifting Janie

Book:Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds”

Light Earth Night Black White Cities Tree Sky Winter Clouds Storm Gray Chicago Boundless Prairie Snowstorms City Lights Monochrome Gray Skies

Author:Barack Obama

“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.”

Source: Self Portrait Che Guevara

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