I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer. — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
So the recordings were these immersive landscapes, and yet, unlike the performances that almost no one would see, I had a sense… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way. — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man. — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
Had the followers of Jesus remained an obscure Jewish sect, most of you would not have learned to read, and the rest… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
How about a new game show called 'Battle Begala?' Contestants would pick any obscure bad thing that happened anywhere in the world,… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages. — Isaac Mayer Wise Copy Share Image
The distinctions of personal merit and influence, so conspicuous in a republic, so feeble and obscure under a monarchy, were abolished by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Once you were just insentient cells, no more aware of anything than your liver is now. Today you are brimming with consciousness.… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is that for all the drive-in movie references, what Weston Ochse has really created in Multiplex Fandango… — Jeff Mariotte Copy Share Image
Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I find that life is easier when it is just a blur With no details to confuse who or what or where… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'. — Anna Chancellor Copy Share Image
If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Sometimes you don't really understand the characters you do. I don't need to. Most of the behavior is obscure and I don't… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and,… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
