Revealing Quotes

301 quotes by 271 authors

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very… — Douglas Adams
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. — Samuel Butler
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do. — A. S. Byatt
I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as… — Nick Cave
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed… — Agatha Christie
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. — Jean Cocteau
Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the spring… — Peter Mayle
I think on this issue more than any other we're going to see sort of a bipartisan longing to get something done, and hopefully you're… — Charles Schumer
Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little,… — Marcel Proust
Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Take a look at yourself, the mirror's revealing. If yeen got it, yeen got it the theory is brilliant. — Drake
People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves. — Humphrey Bogart
Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing. — Ambrose Bierce
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness. — Paul Strand
Love is trusting, accepting, and believing, without guarantee. Love is patient and waits, but it's an active waiting, not a passive one. For it is… — Leo Buscaglia
Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening… — John Ruskin
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their… — Simon Schama
And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears… — Khalil Gibran
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing… — Edward Mills Purcell
If God has given graces to some good women, revealing to them something holy and good through His Holy Scriptures, should they, for the sake… — Marie Dentiere

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