Top 31 Cleaves Quotes
#1. Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.
Barbara Kingsolver
#3. As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.
William Cowper
#4. A city lives or dies on its myths," Cleaves said tapping the side of his nose and
European P. Douglas
#5. And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly.
John Buchan
#6. Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
Alexander Pope
#7. I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#8. It is one of the poorest of human weaknesses that a man would be ashamed of saying he has done wrong instead of so ashamed of having done wrong that he cannot rest till he has said so. For the shame cleaves fast until the confession removes it.
George MacDonald
#9. When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head.
Max Muller
#10. Till now they send him dreams and no more deed;
So doth he flame again with might for action,
Forgetful of the council of the elders,
Forgetful that who rules doth no more battle,
Forgetful that such might no more cleaves to him
So doth he flame again toward valiant doing.
Ezra Pound
#11. Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#12. The real work of this life is not what we do every day from 9-5 ... The real work is to be passionate, be holy, be wild, be irreverent, to laugh and cry until you awaken the sleeping spirits, until the ground of your being cleaves and the universe comes flooding in.
Geneen Roth
#13. The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.
Confucius
#15. The pure heart that sorrow cleaves
Is more fragile than autumn leaves
Yasser Kashef
#16. A right heart leans on Christ, hangs on Christ, builds on Christ and cleaves to Christ.
J.C. Ryle
#17. To whatever the soul of man turns, unless toward God, it cleaves to sorrow, even though the things outside God and outside itself to which it turns may be things of beauty.
Augustine Of Hippo
#18. Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is the price of his immunity from political pressure and of the security of his tenure.
Learned Hand
#19. Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.
Brooks Atkinson
#20. Where joyous full of faith, spreading white sails, She cleaves the ether mid the sparkle and the foam of day, or under many a star at night, By sailors young and old haply will I, a reminiscence of the land, be read,
Walt Whitman
#21. The bell tolling not for us, it's time for bluebells.
Lara Biyuts
#22. Off the packed trail we experience the miracle of corn snow, skiing atop the crust, like skiing on an eggshell that has been sprinkled with sugar.
Susan Minot
#24. Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.
James Taylor
#25. I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you don't recognize someone because they're so lost in the part.
Alison Elliott
#27. If I'm hunter-born and you're hunter-born, doesn't that mean that Father must behunter-born, too?'
...
'the ability isn't active in him, like it is in me and you. Do you understand?'
A thoughtful nod ... 'Like he's asleep and we're awake.
Nalini Singh
#28. I'd forgotten that human minds are easy to shatter as eggshells," Rhysand said, and ran a finger across the base of my throat. I shuddered, my eyes burning. "Look at how delighful she is - look how she's trying not to cry out in terror. It would be quick, I promise.
Sarah J. Maas
#29. You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#30. Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.
Colum McCann
#31. Is a couple of hairs above my lip really worthy of this much effort?" I asked. "Yes," they both replied at once.
Jana Deleon
