Visible Quotes
821 Visible quotes by 629 unique authors
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The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them…
— Don Tapscott
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Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.
— Francis Parker Yockey
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Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand the principle of…
— Maximus the Confessor
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True success does not always come in forms that are visible or measurable.
— Mike Hernacki
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In these gaudy times, we think we will shortly reach the point where everything is known, but the fact is we are ignoring the essential,…
— Georges Rouault
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For the most part, of course, the presence of the great spiritual universe surrounding us is no more noticed by us than the pressure of…
— Evelyn Underhill
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Hope always draws the soul from the beauty which is seen to what is beyond, always kindles the desire for the hidden through what is…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our…
— Anne Lamott
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Let us be satisfied simply with what sustains our present life, not with what pampers it. Let us pray to God for this, as we…
— Maximus the Confessor
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Before His visible advent in the flesh the Logos of God dwelt among the patriarchs and prophets in a spiritual manner, prefiguring the mysteries of…
— Maximus the Confessor
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This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.
— Thomas Traherne
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Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity…
— Gerhard Richter
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To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and the…
— Gerhard Richter
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Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature can be seen in her visible…
— Paracelsus
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Supply does not come through prayer. It comes as a result of an attitude of faith, a condition of mind and heart, in which the…
— Henry Thomas Hamblin
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Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the Academy). All that…
— Gerhard Richter
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Everybody in New York, including police horses, dresses fashionably, and whenever I'm there, even in my sharpest funeral-quality suit with no visible ketchup stains, I…
— Dave Barry
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A sexual athlete is not likely to find sufficient energy for work of another athletic kind, and the acting of great parts most definitely was…
— Laurence Olivier
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Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and…
— Gloria Steinem
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I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when…
— Mark Twain
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Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields…
— Milton Avery
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I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy,…
— Ellen Barkin
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There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.
— David Korten
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I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without.
— Helena Christensen
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I think all of us who kind of live within the sport recognize that Davis Cup certainly could be a little more visible if perhaps…
— Jim Courier
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