Obscuring Quotes
18 quotes by 15 authors
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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it…
— Angela Carter
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The frenetic pace of modern life can lead to an obscuring or even a loss of what is truly human... Perhaps more than in other…
— Pope John Paul II
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Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing…
— Herman Melville
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December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.
— John M. Geddes
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It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at…
— Edward E. Barnard
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The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.
— Frantz Fanon
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'Tell me one last thing,' said Harry. 'Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?' Dumbledore beamed at him, and his voice…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas…
— Edward E. Barnard
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The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in…
— Charles Dickens
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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both.
— Marshall McLuhan
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Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring…
— John Piper
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On one hand the eternal attraction of man towards femininity (cf. Gn. 2:23) frees in him-or perhaps it should free-a gamut of spiritual-corporal desires of…
— Pope John Paul II
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The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgusting as war propaganda. Like war propaganda, it concentrates on…
— George Orwell
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He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we…
— Orhan Pamuk
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Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision, obscuring reality and…
— Jane Leavy
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You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come…
— Jayson Blair
Who Wrote These Obscuring Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 18 Obscuring Quotes as follows: