#cloud

The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often. ↗

— Du Fu

#asks #clouds #drafting #happens #often

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#back #being #bush #cloud #dough

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. ↗

— John Lubbock

#across #clouds #day #float #grass

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. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#animate #clouds #crystal #every #existence

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

— Don Marquis

#cloud #difficult #every #get #lining

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. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#art #baseness #beauty #best #best part

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

— Sarah McLachlan

#cloud #enough #evaporates #like #long

My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#always #because #came #challenging #cloudy

A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game. ↗

— Peter Ueberroth

#called #cloud #game #hangs #our

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

— Christopher Morley

#clouds #hearts #heavy #letting #like