The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be…

Americans are so often thrown by Japan. It looks familiar but, an inch below the surface, it isn't anything like the West at all.

— Cathy Davidson

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to…

— Carl Jung

“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest…

— Bertrand Russell

...Was it because a lot of the heat went into melting Arctic sea ice or parts of Greenland and Antarctica, and other glaciers? Was…

— Kevin E. Trenberth

Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.

— Roald Dahl

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A…

— Richard Avedon

Women want everything of a lover. And too often I would sink below the surface. So armies disappear under sand. And there was her…

— Michael Ondaatje

Many times when I stop working on a problem consciously, my mind continues to work on it below the surface. Often solutions come on…

— Marilynne Robinson

English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction…

— Margaret Halsey

Now imagine that you are going beneath the surface of the ocean. Below the surface all is calm, silent, and serene. As you visualize…

— Frederick Lenz

The more familiar people are with the ecosystem that lives below the surface - invisible until you're actually in the ocean - the more…

— Jon Bowermaster

Many fires burn below the surface.

— Empedocles

Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel,…

— Matthew Arnold

Vermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own life. This…

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

She was doing that thing some people do when they act nice and chipper and interested, while just below the surface they’re thinking really…

— Cecily von Ziegesar