Revealing Quotes
301 quotes by 271 authors
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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
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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
— Samuel Butler
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
— A. S. Byatt
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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
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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
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
— Jean Cocteau
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Take a look at yourself, the mirror's revealing. If yeen got it, yeen got it the theory is brilliant.
— Drake
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People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.
— Humphrey Bogart
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Revealing Quotes
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