Top 1200 Above The Clouds Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?

When I look up at the clouds I see so many animals, mostly sheep who have lost their limbs and heads.

Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

In some ways, climbing in the clouds is comforting. You can no longer see how high off the ground you are.

The whole existence is a temple...the trees are continously in worship, the clouds are in prayer and the mountains are in meditation.

When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. ... The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.

I want to be lazier. This is the luxurious dream I have: Doing nothing all day, just watching the clouds and DVDs.

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.

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.

Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.

In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.

The people who are abroad are all those that have no religion, neither one based on speculation nor one received by tradition. Such are the extreme Turks that wander about in the north, the Kushites who live in the south, and those in our country who are like these. I consider these as irrational beings, and not as human beings; they are below mankind, but above monkeys, since they have the form and shape of man, and a mental faculty above that of the monkey.

I thought that, given the system of rewards central to our economic system, in which profit maximization is valued above all else and specifically above life, it is probably just as irresistible to the owners of capital (human or otherwise) to exploit workers (and the land): "Nothing personal," they say as they load their property onto the ship bound for the Middle Passage, "but a man's gotta turn a dime."

Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake.

Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand.

There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.

Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.

In my most psychotic stages, I imagine myself chewing on sidewalks and bulging and swallowing sunlight and clouds.

I do sing a bit, a solo called 'Rubies,' and the female vocals on 'In Paradisum,' 'The Sound of Silence,' and 'Sapphire Clouds'.

For the most part, for me and my friends, there's always an emotional attachment that clouds women's judgment.

Changes in clouds and rainfall can overwhelm what little effect CO2-water vapour has on temperature.

I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on And mingled into one.

The smile broke across his face the way the sunrise set the clouds on fire.

By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast - a cold wind.

There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.

A good party man puts his party above himself and his country above his party.

The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.

The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow! Grow!" ... I believe that above the entire human race is one super-angel, crying "Evolve! Evolve!"

The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.

Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.

Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon

and the smile I'd been waiting for stretched across his face like the sun breaking free of the clouds.

Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds.

(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.

If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.

If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.

She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.

What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.

It was a great learning experience to work with all the stalwarts associated with 'Beyond the Clouds.' It's indeed a strong team to be working with.

I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

And see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky.

Hating clouds the mind. It gets in the way of strategy. Leaders cannot afford to hate

There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth.

Why are there no clouds in the sky? ... 'Cause God wants to watch his favorite band again!

The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period of doubling, depends upon the proportion which the excess of the births above the deaths bears to the population.

Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker - which is to say, simply: see his films!...by all means/above all else...etcetera.

Paul was not ignorant of Satan's devices, but we are not so wise. Among his most successful devices today are these: exalting tolerance above truth; emphasizing the head more than the heart; making size more important than sort; stressing the positive to the neglect of the negative; putting happiness above holiness; majoring on this world instead of the next.

We are the space in which thoughts appear, play, and dissolve like clouds drifting in the infinite sky.

I feel I have learnt a lot on the sets of 'Beyond The Clouds,' and it will be a life-long learning for me.

God wove a web of loveliness, Of clouds and stars and birds, But made not anything at all, So beautiful as words.

I saw a commercial for an above-ground pool, it was 30 seconds long. Because that's the maximum amount of time you can picture yourself having fun in an above-ground pool. If it was 31 seconds, the actor would say "The water is only up to here? What do I do now? Throw the ball back to Jimmy? Or put some goggles on and look at his feet?"

Basic problem is that all models are wrong - not got enough middle and low level clouds.

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something

You have these 'hot towers', tropical storm clouds acting like chimneys to carry heat to the upper atmosphere.

The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.

Truth and oyle are ever above. [Truth and oil are ever above.]