Visible Quotes

821 Visible quotes by 629 unique authors

Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it… — Rowan Williams
Thus is Man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live, not onely like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided… — Thomas Browne
A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts. — Jeffrey Eugenides
[her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from a dropper could… — Steve Martin
I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and in roaming the… — H P Lovecraft
Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is… — Cormac McCarthy
If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves..." If the veil were rent today, and the great God who… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is… — Jeanette Winterson
I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom. — George Orwell
The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a… — Paulo Coelho
Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form--no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing... The… — Nicholas Sparks
A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that… — Michel Foucault
She saw herself riding in the passenger seat, Sam behind the wheel. Like two of those little peg people in a toy car. Husband peg,… — Anne Tyler
I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a… — Cornelia Funke
The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins… — James Allen
Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious. — Bill Bryson
…I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy… — William Faulkner
Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible. — Paul Klee
we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible. — John Milton
Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The… — Paulo Coelho
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret. — Michel Foucault
...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not… — Eve Ensler
The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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