Unseen Quotes

420 Unseen quotes by 340 unique authors

It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our… — George Santayana
Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of… — Matthew Simpson
Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end. — Hafez
People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people -… — Neil Postman
In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions… — Charles Alexander Eastman
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that… — Henry Ward Beecher
Apparently, a great deal of dark, unseen material exists, whose gravitational pull is responsible for the motions of the stars and galaxies that we see. — John D. Barrow
Life is a game of whist. From unseen sources The cards are shuffled, and the hands are dealt. I do not like the way the… — Eugene Fitch Ware
Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may… — Eugenie Clark
Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our relative good fortune,… — Julian Baggini
What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my… — Stanley Donen
My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy. — Cai Guo-Qiang
Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother and grandmother, the… — Cai Guo-Qiang
We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling… — William Herschel
Time washes clean, love's wounds unseen. — Linda Ronstadt
There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career. — Lesley Garrett
I want every image to be the beginning of an unseen image. — Khalil Gibran
We were sent into the world alive with beauty. As soon as we choose Beauty, unseen forces conspire to guide and encourage us towards unexpected… — John O'Donohue
Even when we are frustrated by our inability to understand a circumstance or event, there are unseen angels bringing comfort and protection as directed by… — Mary C. Neal
Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment, when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen. — Martial
Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale. — John Milton
Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray. — Abraham Cowley
Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen. — Joshua Reynolds
Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are… — Cennino Cennini

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