Cloudy Quotes

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear.

If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear.

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath;

Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.

In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.

Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath;

Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.

Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.

Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?

A gray day provides the best light.

Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.

We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot.

My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.

You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.

She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning -- an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.

...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

For me, there's nothing better than curling up in my favorite blanket on a cloudy or rainy day and just knit. Especially in front of the fireplace.

The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel.

Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?

If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.

In London, the weather would affect me negatively.

I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.

Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.

Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.

I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruit drops - red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me.

A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil.

The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.

Everybody else shares the same cloudy sky.

Say, what is life? 'Tis to be born, A helpless Babe, to greet the light With a sharp wail, as if the morn Foretold a cloudy noon and night; To weep, to sleep, and weep again, With sunny smiles between; and then?