By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
Aeschylus

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.
Carl Sandburg

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Thomas Szasz

How much will you give for the lives of your childrens children, which is yourself? How much are people willing to give up for air, earth, water, animals, and the coming generations? I think the answer to that is pretty clear.
Lynette Fromme

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
Thomas Hardy

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
Joseph Conrad

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
Joseph Conrad

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
Alain de Botton

He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.
John Milton

I want you to know that I am innocent - and that I will fight to clear my name.
Martha Stewart

In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to.
John Walters

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Hannah Arendt

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
Paul Cezanne

This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision.
Osama bin Laden

We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
J. Edgar Hoover

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
Peter Marshall

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
Samuel Butler

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
Samuel Butler

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
Vernon Howard

We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.
Kinky Friedman