Visible Quotes

821 Visible quotes by 629 unique authors

As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make… — Michel de Montaigne
The essential commitment and, above all, the visible grace and source of supernatural strength for the Church as the People of God is to persevere… — Pope John Paul II
Allah made the illusion look real and the real an illusion. He concealed the sea and made the foam visible, the wind invisible, and the… — Unknown Author
There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom,… — Thomas Merton
The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the… — H. L. Mencken
Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to yellow, to yellow-green,… — Ernest Hemingway
Above all we need, particularly as children, the reassuring presence of a visible community, an intimate group that enfolds us with understanding and love, and… — Lewis Mumford
Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use. — Jean Aitchison
Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are… — Elizabeth Bowen
Good writers are visible just behind their words. — William Zinsser
Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it… — Leo Tolstoy
The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye.… — Wynn Bullock
To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography. — Friedrich Durrenmatt
Nature is the living, visible garment of God. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In your body, there exists a subtle current of electricity, very subtle. But the subtler it is, the deeper it goes. It is not very… — Rajneesh
It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what's keeping things… — Anne Lamott
In order to keep our balance, we need to hold the interior and exterior, visible and invisible, known and unknown, temporal and eternal, ancient and… — John O'Donohue
To make the sign of the cross is to pronounce a visible and public yes to him who died for us and who is risen,… — Pope Benedict XVI
The body in its masculinity and femininity has been called "from the beginning" to become the manifestation of the spirit. The body, in fact, and… — Pope John Paul II
The visible world is the invisible organization of energy. — Heinz Pagels
One is left with the thought that given the way we now abuse the ocean and abuse the climate that we are heading towards our… — Paul Keating
The effort of the economist is to "see," to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear in his vision,… — Irving Fisher
The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation. — Giacomo Leopardi
He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he… — Dante Alighieri
The New Capitalism (arising from the global economic downturn)...those running our biggest commercial businesses will have to be more visible. They'll have to manifest a… — Robert Preston

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