Quotation Explorer - 'Fog'

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job. - Victor Hugo
Know that tomorrow will bring clarity where before was only fog. In the final summation, it is not other's expectations that slay us, but our over compensatory reactions in regard - C.B. Smith
Life is foggy; always try to see what lies behind the fog! - Mehmet Murat ildan
There are too many things around us, preventing us from thinking well! To think well, sometimes we need a heavy fog! - Mehmet Murat ildan
For a long time I spent my weary days in a fog of what might be and what has been and I guess you could say im still learning how to accept what is. - Nikki Rowe
The fog may seem thick but the sun will surely pierce through and brighten up the sky. Allow yourself to continue to rest on the wings of God's love and watch yourself learn to soar high. - Kemi Sogunle
With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog! - Mehmet Murat ildan
A thick, intense fog was rolling in from the ocean, which created long, strange shadows to form like creatures of their own kind. - Keira D. Skye
...the fog is rising.
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. - Carl Sandburg
Tell me what’s the differencebetween hope and waitingbecause my heart doesn’t knowIt constantly cuts itself on the glass of waitingIt constantly gets lost in the fog of hope - Anna Kamieńska
When you are happy, you feel the sunshine even inside the fog; when you are unhappy, you feel the fog even in the sunshine. - Mehmet Murat ildan
To feel free, create a fog around yourself! And how can you do this? Be silent! When you are silent, people will not notice you much! You will be invisible, you will be inside the fog! - Mehmet Murat ildan
All of us are seeking a home, and I don't mean where we were born, or where we now live and have things, but where we can do the big things, the right things. Where we belong, where we fit, where we're loved."--Tennessee Williams, "Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog - James Grissom
RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. It is said to be rich in both obtundite and lethargine, and is brewed in a midnight fog by a fat which of the Dismal Swamp. - Ambrose Bierce
Where the fog is thickest, begin. - Marty Rubin
Standing alone, walking my own path. Rearranging my thoughts. Pushing worries away. Climbing out of the fog, towards freedom of mind. - TinaJ. Richardson
Lose yourself in the music, not the fog - Keeper Peace
You know what the future is? It is a heavy fog which hides inside everything you can imagine! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Those who generate fog are Wizards of Oz hoping desperately that nobody pulls the curtain to reveal a trembling little writer behind it. This seldom happens. Readers who dare to point out that incomprehensible writing can't be comprehended risk being told that the problem is theirs. - Ralph Keyes
We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people’s minds. - Shannon L. Alder
Fog is more dangerous than dark, as it gives the illusion of seeing. - Aleksandra Ninkovic
Have you lost your hope? Have you remained inside the fog? Don’t worry; even if you can’t find it, a new hope will come and find you! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process. - Virginia Woolf
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. - Henri Matisse
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see. - Corrie ten Boom
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires and fog in the valleys; cellos, dark window-panes, snow. - Donna Tartt
How many people came and stayed a certain time,Uttered light or dark speech that became part of youLike light behind windblown fog and sandFiltered and influenced by it, until no partRemains that is surely you. - John Ashbery
Night-time is being brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away. - Gregory Maguire
The aftermath of someone’s death is vertiginous, a murky, shimmering mass; to look at it head-on is to see only the fog of emotion. One must approach it sideways, entering it by way of an exhumation of facts and retrospections . . . - Nicole Rudick
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