Clear Quotes - page 3

Why do people do yoga? To clear their minds? I embrace the clutter in my head. (Chris Rock)
I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year A handsome house to lodge a friend A river at my garden's end A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood. View quote
Jonathan Swift
And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear. View quote
William Blake
I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not. View quote
T. H. White
Up up my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double Up up my friend, and clear your looks Why all this toil and trouble. View quote
William Wordsworth
Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
...But the truth is, I've never wanted to be a movie star - and I've been pretty clear about that. View quote
Ethan Hawke
When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes. View quote
Isaac Watts
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. View quote
Hannah Arendt
The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable to toil, and an intelligent life is preferable to a stupid life. It so happened that philosophy was born with these values. Scientific thought had to break this union of value judgment and analysis, for it became increasingly clear that the philosophic values did not guide the organisation of society. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
We got a real clear picture of what they all value. Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first hundred days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, 'unchain Wall Street.' (Joe Biden)
Man is always ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him. View quote
Paul Eldridge
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. View quote
Ogden Nash
It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes through a long experience, and eventually goes out of existence. View quote
Carroll Quigley
I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day; But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon. View quote
John Milton
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Muddy water, let stand becomes clear. View quote
Laozi
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light. View quote
Isaac Newton
Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man. View quote
Albert Einstein
The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature. View quote
Manuel Puig
I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream. View quote
Mark Strand
As a whole, investors should welcome attempts to safeguard the integrity of markets. You need very clear rules applied to markets. View quote
Mohamed El-Erian
If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training. View quote
Robert Sternberg