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
Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy,… — Scott Aukerman Copy Share Image
Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity. — Bill Vaughan 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
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
“What kind of ministry is that, just talking to people?" Criticism directed at Francis Schaeffer's plan to open an obscure spot in… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“When the work is done, and one's name is becoming distinguished, to withdraw into obscurity is the way of Heaven.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
I do not whisper obscurities in some dark corner. I would not have told the people of Israel to seek me if… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Energy and curiosity are the lifeblood of universities; the desire to find out, to uncover, to dig deeper, to puzzle out obscurities,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
"Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not… — David Hume Copy Share Image
However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud, in that pure empyrean where… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of… — C. D. Darlington 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
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 did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
There's nothing more horrifying than the possibility or the idea that you will just fade away into obscurity. — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I honestly feel like I've been mostly toiling in obscurity until a little bit after 'Day Of the Dog' came out. — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else. — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor. — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff. — William McFee Copy Share Image
“A method involving apparent obscurity is surely justified when it is the clearest, the simplest, the only method possible of saying in… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
I have gone from local obscurity to national obscurity to international obscurity. Once I learn how to monetize obscurity, I will be… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
