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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

George Bernard Shaw

The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labor lies.

Virgil

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Robert Frost

Ensanguining the skies, How heavily it dies, Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound, Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground, Falls the remorseful day.

Alfred Edward Housman

We're as optimistic as we've ever been about the long-term future of the company. The company is executing well. The market fundamentals are very, very good, and we see nothing but blue skies ahead in the Internet business.

John Little

I hope one day that China's pilots will fly the skies in jumbo aircraft manufactured by their own country.

Li Jiaxiang

Investors see nothing but sunny skies as far as the eye can see and therefore do not care one iota about risk. They are pursuing returns regardless of risk, and therefore the most speculative companies and investment classes are doing very well.

Whitney Tilson

We'll never be able to thank those guys enough, ... We're just so grateful... Those Coast Guard guys had been out there in Biloxi, in Mobile, in New Orleans and they just happened to be flying low and there were sunny skies.

Charles Butler

Protecting dark night skies in our National Parks is as vital as protecting clean air, water, wildlife and the sounds of nature.

Thomas Kiernan

We're seeing lower wind, higher humidity, overcast skies with the potential of rain. That should help contain the fire to make it easier to put out.

Wendy Rosenbach

All the emergency patching was done in December. Now is the time to work on big jobs -- to completely re-roof -- if only the skies would clear.

Kevin Bryant

I don't think we're going to have completely sunny skies, but it will certainly be less rain than we've had.

Tom Birchard

Open skies will come, just as the Berlin Wall finally came down. It's an anachronism to have these restrictions between two free-trading states.

Nigel Turner

America's definition of open skies is that we can come in and do what we like, we want access via Britain to the rest of the EU -- you can't have access to the U.S. internal market.

Rod Eddington

We don't want to give the excuse for the occupation to return. We don't want to keep these [Israeli] planes in our skies all the time. We don't want terror for our children.

Ala Husni

We're enjoying blue skies and the warm sunny climate that everyone expects when coming to Hawaii.

John Monahan

It's an insanely great day. It's blue skies, close to 50. Today is beautiful.

Marty Ward

CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him. There is a land of pure delight, Beyond the Jordan's flood, Where saints, apparelled all in white, Fling back the critic's mud. And as he legs it through the skies, His pelt a sable hue, He sorrows sore to recognize The missiles that he threw. .

Ambrose Bierce

I want to send a message that our industry is going to be able to get you gasoline after the skies clear, but we just can't get the ships in here.

Dave Mica

A blizzard [on Sunday] to set the scene of snow and then beautiful blue skies for the van to be able to pull away and then head to Florida [on Monday]. It's the best of both worlds.

Charles Steinberg

Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!/ O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! / The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!

Gerard Manley Hopkins

This is amazing. We had a meet at Winter Haven where the skies were black and it never rained, another meet where the rain held up, and now this one. It's a good omen.

Jen Gosline

Glory be to God for dappled things for skies of couple-color as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Air Canada has long advocated the further liberalization of our shared skies so that we can better link our expanded North American network to our growing international network.

Robert Milton

The first moments of the bombing, when the skies were lit up, I was in a room across the hall.

Peter Arnett

I think being isolated like that let me really get in touch with my inner voice. I was able to ask myself without any distractions, 'What do you want to do with your life? Where do you want to go? What do you want to be?' And with nothing but blue skies and pine nuts, I was able to see the light.

Harland Williams

There is no true de-regulation or open-skies policy in Asia. Even if they are not government owned there is high degree of protectionism and favoritism towards home-based carriers.

David Pettigrew

He flies over these poor farming communities along the Tigris River and drops them down to the children. They watch the skies for him.

Pat Martin

We can no longer allow the situation to continue where Africa's skies are known as the most dangerous in the world.

Tshepo Peege

It means that the number of people keeping their eyes on the skies is greatly diminished... I put it down to the end of The X Files, a lack of military exercises in the area that would produce UFO sightings, and a lack of strange phenomena.

Chris Parr

Friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

William Lamb Melbourne

[But clouds blanketed some skies over Great Britain, dimming the display.] It is a disappointment, but we are at the mercy of the elements, ... It's been overcast all night and I haven't been able to see anything at all.

John Mcfarland

I think that the so-called Clear Skies approach would dirty our skies, not clean them up.

Debbie Sease

You don't necessarily have to be in love with this weather to get through it well. It's about attitude. Instead of seeing a gray sky and thinking gray equals bleak and sad and depressing, try something else. Try, when the skies are gray, there's a somber beauty to the landscape. Put a positive spin on it.

Dan Weiner

The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him are opening paradise.

Thomas Gray

Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

Thomas Traherne

If the skies are clear and the telescope is working right, you can see features on the surface of Mars.

Peter Jedicke

The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies.

Alexander Crummell

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

Duke Ellington

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

Eleanora Duse