Quotes About Clear

mad, were not my perception and reasonings so clear; and this state of mind appears to have brought with it superior knowledge on all subjects.

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't.

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.

As it happens, the differences are clear between the major answers to the search for purpose in life, and they lead in entirely different directions.

The next morning was peaceful and clear. The sea was calm. White smoke from the volcano on Oshima, just above the horizon, drifted up into the sky. Never mind. I hate describing scenery.

By surviving passages of doubt and depression on the vocational journey, I have become clear about at least one thing: self-care is never a selfish act-it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.

History is clear that, in most endeavors, success is a product of uncompromising attention to purpose.

didn't think I could trust you," I said. "I was wrong, and I regret it. It wasn't the clearest thinking I've ever done.

the innocent silence that had gathered like a clear pool around the three men was beginning to darken into a silence of a different kind.

A professor's decks are never clear: there will always be barnacles to scrape, cannons to polish, and scurvy-stricken grad students to free from the brig.

I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler.

O most merciful Redeemer, Friend, and Brother, May I know Thee more clearly, Love Thee more dearly, Follow Thee more nearly, Day by day. — St. Richard of Chichester

Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.

The vague qualifiers in those examples are chaff, a habit of conversation—um, ah, ahem! They add nothing. Happy, for example, is a strong, clear word, but if it's not enough, overjoyed, thrilled, or ecstatic has a precision that "very happy" lacks.

A waiter from the café scowled at them from his seat just inside the doorway. When it was clear they weren't going to go away, he sauntered over.

That the regime was willing to hit itts chief political constituency in the pocket was a clear sign of desperation.

How you refill. Lying there. Something like happiness, just like water, pure and clear pouring in. So good you don't even welcome it, it runs through you in a bright stream, as if it has been there all along.

Late August, a clear night becoming cold. There was no aurora borealis, just the dense sparks of the stars blown from their own ancient fire.

his conscience was clear and he had faith in the essential goodness of the universe and so felt cradled by it.