Obscured Quotes

63 Obscured quotes by 58 unique authors

When we have no goal, or when our vision of the goal is obscured, we may lose our sense of purpose. Even when we've prepared… — John Templeton
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there… — Miguel de Cervantes
[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely… — Oscar Wilde
My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him where he's on the porch, and his… — Mary-Louise Parker
People who have never had an ideal may hope to find one; they are in a better state than the people who allow the circumstances… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
On the periscope . . . . What a beautiful view. Cloud cover over Florida - three to four tenths near the eastern coast. Obscured… — Alan Shepard
Hell is to be contemplated strictly as a matter which concerns me alone. As part of the spiritual life it belongs behind the 'closed door'… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All over the earth Other stars. — Alfred the Great
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried. — Henry Louis Gates
I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man… — Zoe Saldana
Love is like light and there are two kinds, the bursting fireworks of the moment and the solid, fixed stars that sometimes become obscured in… — Ann Rinaldi
... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other"… — Edward Said
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins. — Tom Robbins
Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by… — Leo Tolstoy
It's tucked away in a quiet corner, shadowed and obscured, no part of the Nightside's usual bright gaudy neon noir. It doesn't advertise and it… — Simon R. Green
The medium obscured the message. — Christopher Moore
A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies,… — Virginia Woolf
Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality. — Wallace Stegner
Jack believed in something—he believed in white witches and sleighs pulled by wolves, and in the world the trees obscured. He believed that there were… — Anne Ursu
Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet,… — Neil Gaiman
Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy. — Ilchi Lee
I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media. — Sharon Stone
Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures. — Youssef Ziedan
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in… — Alexander Hamilton

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