The worst thing for me would be going back to where I was - relative obscurity. — Jordan Burroughs 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
Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity. — Ryan North Copy Share Image
Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
For the most part, executions happen in obscurity. If people did hear about executions, if they were publicized, even televised, I fear… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
“You are a lamp to give light to people; you must mount the lamp stand and shine bright! Don't hide your gifts;… — israelmore ayivor Copy Share Image
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In the 1930s, all the novelists had seemed to be people who came blazing up into stardom from out of total obscurity.… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
For though we very truly hear that the kingdom of God will be filled with splendor, joy, happiness and glory, yet when… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who perform great feats before friendly crowds. Greatness in major league sports is the… — George Allen Copy Share Image
Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions… — Cyrus the Great Copy Share Image
Public opinion, - a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity; deriving power no one… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I mean, you hear the word 'globalization' over and over and over again. Globalization, globalization, globalization. Rarely has a word gone so… — Robert Reich 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
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
“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
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
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
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
There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Our social and professional demands keep our mind highly active, absorbing most of our attention. Cluttering of mind obscures the higher Self.… — Dhruva Bhargava Copy Share Image
The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.” — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose. — George Chapman Copy Share Image
