Obscure Quotes

374 Obscure quotes by 323 unique authors

You cannot have your news instantly and have it done well. You cannot have your news reduced to 140 characters or less without losing large… — Ryan Holiday
The truth of the matter is that for all the drive-in movie references, what Weston Ochse has really created in Multiplex Fandango is a travelogue.… — Jeff Mariotte
The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials by persons whose… — Amos Bronson Alcott
And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light… — Thomas Jefferson
In labouring to be brief, I become obscure. — Horace
The best ideas aren't hidden in shadowy recesses. They're right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or… — Richard Farson
For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we… — Thomas Hobbes
The "Kumulipo" is an old Hawaiian prayer chant that poetically describes the creation of the world. The word literally means "beginning-in-deep-darkness." Here darkness doesn't connote… — Rob Brezsny
In a small Swiss city sits an international organization so obscure and secretive....Control of the institution, the Bank for International Settlements, lies with some of… — Unknown Author
The past is certain, the future obscure. — Thales
You can be so dignified that you obscure the reality of what is going on. — Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully.… — Eckhart Tolle
Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to obscure or quite… — Franz Kafka
I would rather die in the adventure of noble achievements than live in obscure and sluggish security. — Margaret Cavendish
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer. — Ted Cruz
I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ; One only is… — Giordano Bruno
I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional… — Steve Wozniak
If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear. — David Seabury
The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some… — George Berkeley
The pain of loneliness is one way in which he wants to get our attention. We may be earnestly desiring to be obedient and holy.… — Elisabeth Elliot
But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite… — Samuel Johnson
That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled his speech, were… — Edward Coke
Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for evil,… — Charles Dickens

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