Visible Quotes

821 Visible quotes by 629 unique authors

When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one way or another,… — Flannery O'Connor
I believe that God—if he exists at all—is what we want him to be. The true God is unknowable, and so we dress him up… — Michael Thomas Ford
In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in… — John Ortberg
My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other people how to live, powerful, visible creatures… — Craig Ferguson
Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the… — John Maynard Keynes
All right. Tell me what I'm looking at." From the improvised Rolling Stones T-shirt bag tied to my sash, Bob the Skull said, in his… — Jim Butcher
To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they… — Diane Setterfield
The visible becomes inevitable... — Garth Stein
If we are indeed contending for truth and righteousness, let us not tarry till we have talent, or wealth, or any other form of visible… — Charles Spurgeon
The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost… — George Orwell
She is close enough to me that I can see her, because even now there is the outward sign of visible light, even at night… — John Green
Right,” I said. “So the baboon, the crocodile…any other pets I should know about?” Amos thought for a moment. “Visible ones? No, I think that’s… — Rick Riordan
Amos stopped before the entrance, which was the size of a garage door—a dark heavy square of timber with no visible handle or lock. “Carter… — Rick Riordan
I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it means… — Anne Lamott
But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so… — J.R.R. Tolkien
As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the… — Yann Martel
Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from… — Miguel de Cervantes
This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace it, like those… — Georges Perec
butterflies were wind energy made visible. — Anne Lamott
People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty… — Oscar Wilde
You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is… — Edward de Bono
Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church.… — M. Scott Peck
When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And what is it to work… — Khalil Gibran
I shift on to my side and find myself looking directly into Gale's eyes. For an instant the world recedes and there is just his… — Suzanne Collins

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