Transparent Quotes

264 quotes by 241 authors

The two-way street of Total Information Awareness is the road that leads to a more transparent and complete picture of ourselves, our governments, and our… — Newton Lee
The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent. — Thomas Carlyle
In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family. — Timothy Keller
All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea… — Maurice Maeterlinck
The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the… — Juan Ramon Jimenez
How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating… — Gerard De Nerval
We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent. There can be no whitewash at the White… — Richard M. Nixon
Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and moon, night and… — Thomas Merton
If I am transparent enough to myself, then I can become less afraid of those hidden selves that my transparency may reveal to others. If… — Sheldon B. Kopp
On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent. — Bob Barr
Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body. — Georg Buchner
If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that… — Anatoly Chubais
As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think… — Gavyn Davies
I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces. — Vicente Fox
New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression. — Daniel Gillies
As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes. — Justin Amash
To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is… — Eike Batista
When we share our personal data with business, its use should be transparent and secure. — Anna Eshoo
There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't. — John M. Ford

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