The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity. — Ryan North Copy Share Image
Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again. — Adoniram Judson Copy Share Image
...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“You are like a global market. You can't hide yourself from global customers! Make a global exposure of your dreams and you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Some people find clarity threatening. They like muddle, confusion, obscurity. So when somebody does no more than speak clearly it sounds threatening. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Sightings of shape shifting dissolved into the darkness. A final opinion is of less value than an appreciation of, and tolerance for… — Chiodos Copy Share Image
“There was the same need for obscurity, the same suspicion that if a piece of music had reached a large number of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
David Lynch plucked me from obscurity. He cast me as the lead in 'Dune' and 'Blue Velvet,' and people have seen me… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined… — James Burnham Copy Share Image
You have to demand things and believe you're worth more. And once you do demand them, you're usually going to get them.… — Sue Wicks Copy Share Image
“You put yourself in a tight corner of failure if you think "it's only the rich that get richer while the poor… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition. In a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity. I have been called to several… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
My nun, which is how I think of her, was the most profound witness for God's love I've ever encountered in this… — Cathleen Falsani Copy Share Image
If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I do nothing, with as little shame as satisfaction. It is the state that suits me best. I write the odd poem… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crowned with… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
But though every created thing is, in this sense, a mystery, the word mystery cannot be applied to moral truth, any more… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
