Obscure Quotes

374 quotes by 330 authors

I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure… — Bjork
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. — William Blake
A Constitution should be short and obscure. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see… — Constantin Brancusi
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God. — Robert Browning
A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as… — James Buchan
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need… — Tom Clancy
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. — Henri Frederic Amiel
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. — Maya Angelou
There is nothing obscure about the objectives of educational exchange. Its purpose is to acquaint Americans with the world as it is and to acquaint… — J. William Fulbright
I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children… — Henry Ward Beecher
Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly… — Vaclav Havel
I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul. — Therese of Lisieux
Never be so brief as to become obscure. — Tryon Edwards
Hardship makes the world obscure. — Don DeLillo
Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes. — Martin Short
There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary… — Samuel Johnson

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