Be Clear Quotes

The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom.

So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men.

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.

It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.

Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.

President Obama has been clear about the future that the United States seeks... when it comes to the Asia-Pacific, the United States is all in.

It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population.

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.

I talk about airplanes and things like that while my scars are on clear view.

It's clear why hacking communities are [growing]. Because it's like, there's a lot more gold there. There's a lot more to steal than ever before.

I like to think of myself as a naturalist - insofar as that term is at all clear.

Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.

Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.

Donald Trump, again and again, has praised Vladimir Putin and it's clear that he has business dealings with Russian oligarchs who are very connected to Putin.

The American public will be clear on who's most fit to be president. And that's Hillary Clinton.

As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.

A lot of people who didn't understand the need for civilians to bear arms on Sept. 10 were pretty clear on the issue by Sept. 12.

I consider parenting skills, those skills that help children: (1) develop clear and important goals; and (2) figure out flexible and persistent ways of achieving their goals.

I like my job. That's become very clear to me. I know how to pretend to do things that I otherwise didn't know how to do.

Just because your direction has never been clear to you does not mean that you must give up.

It becomes pretty crystal clear once you watch that first assembly [movie cut] the things that are just grinding it to a halt, so to speak, or slowing it down, or getting in the way, yeah.

We'll go through the legislative process and I'm make it clear what I support, don't support and what I think is good for Arkansas.

I don't think being a cynic is necessarily a negative thing. It's a matter of seeing the world with clear and open eyes.

The role of CO2 is not nearly as clear as the climate catastrophists would suggest.

Finding people in your life as sounding boards who can be neutral and clear is worth nurturing.

I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.

Every responsible chief in the CIA knows that the more covert the action, the greater the need for a clear policy and a defined target.

I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a "person of faith" not because I am a saint, but because I am a sinner.

So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.

Far from being a bad thing to seek advice, you must, on the contrary, do so when the matter is of any importance, or when we cannot come to a clear decision on our own.

A certain group of adolescents evidence clear "druggie" behavior and attributes some time before they actually begin drug use.

Love by its presence, like God by His, makes everything not necessarily clear or right or even good, but acceptable. Whereas in its absence, as in His, there is no hope.

I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.

What feminism did was make clear for me how much I longed for clarity. I got married twice, each time in a fog. I had so many complicated feelings I couldn't understand.

I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.

One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey the law.

Clear, unscaleable ahead, Rise the mountains of instead From whose cold, cascading streams None may drink except in dreams

You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary.

Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.

The future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

When we really sit back with a smile on our face is when we run into a situation we can understand, where the facts are ascertainable and clear, and the course of action obvious.

Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.

I did not think I would see the day when, you know, an AIG would not be able to have its checks clear.

If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.

I want to make one thing clear: I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-affirmative action, I'm pro- environment, pro-health care, and pro-labor. And if that ain't a Democrat, then I must be at the wrong meeting.

We've never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intel information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time.

I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell.