Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't… — James Vance Copy Share Image
...every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Teenagers also sometimes think, 'What's the use? The world will soon be blown all apart and come to an end.' That feeling… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
What I am skeptical about is the idea that whatever wonderful revelation does come in the science of the future, it will… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in school? Where else… — Gene Fowler Copy Share Image
I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record,… — Susannah McCorkle Copy Share Image
Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect. That would be the revelation of… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless. — Greg L. Bahnsen Copy Share Image
The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
… it wasn’t pretend, I wasn’t in a fairytale or a fable. I shut my eyes and absorbed the silent whoomp that… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away… — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
[James] Baldwin was a revelation for me, the kind of revelation that follows you all your life because you can go back… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after,… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“There’s no much I didn’t know until I was 30 years old. It’s a bitter sweet truth because I wasn’t exposed to… — Niedria Kenny Copy Share Image
When we become incorruptible and immortal, and attain to the blessed state of conformity with Christ, we will be ever with the… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
I could not deprive you of the revelation of all that you could accomplish together, of a friendship that will define you… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
To discover that you can paint without special talent is a great revelation. An endless stream runs through you, enough to paint… — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
“Personal ignorance should be admitted, but it should not be allowed to place limits and bounds on the ways 'and means of… — Jeffrey Lang Copy Share Image
No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the… — John Herschel Copy Share Image