Invisible Quotes - Page 38

• Word - that invisible dagger.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Daggers

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.

  Leon Foucault

  Unstoppable, Born, Grows

  "Pendulum: Léon Foucault and the Triumph of Science". Book by Amir D. Aczel, 2000.

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• 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 unseen and invisible world. Another window was brought from my father's side, those classic and Western books.

  Cai Guo-Qiang

  Mother, Father, Book

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• I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.

  Cindy Gallop

  Our Society, Members, Older Women

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• Conservatives may worship Adam Smith's 'invisible hand,' but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sector. To call this 'socialism' is to do violence to the word and to the concept. To call it 'un-American' is a smear.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Hands, Invisible Hand, May

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• When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Government, Political, President

  Charles Lindbergh (1913). “Banking and Currency and the Money Trust”, p.281, Lulu.com

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• All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is the invisible growth by the root; the second and much accelerated is the visible growth by the stem; but when root and stem have gathered their forces, there comes the third period, in which the plant quickly flashes into blossom and rushes into fruit.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Roots, Growth

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.31

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• Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there could be absolutely no point, in all that background, at which would not exist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids which our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Distance, Science

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.1325, Delphi Classics

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• Spiritual is hooked up to the invisible umbilical cord of my Lord, Kumbiya.

  Ludacris

  Spiritual, Religious, Religion

  Song: Mouthing Off

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• I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.

  Terry Gross

  Self, Pleasure, Conscious

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• I'd really like to show women my age - who've had children grow up or lost husbands or retired after working all their lives - that there are options. There are choices. We don't have to just sit around and be invisible.

  Katherine Helmond

  Children, Growing Up, Husband

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• I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.

  Tayari Jones

  Girl, Kind, Young

  "'Silver Sparrow,' Tayari Jones' Tale Of Secret Sisters". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. May 19, 2011.

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• What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people's houses. It's naive to think you won't carry anything into your life.

  Etgar Keret

  Army, Thinking, People

  "Life at a louder volume". Interview With Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2007.

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• All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.

  James Taylor

  Strong, Philosophy, Connections

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• I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and get where you're going much faster. But being invisible? You probably wouldn't use that for the good of man.

  Randy Johnson

  Men, Thinking, Flying

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• Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.

  Alex Kingston

  Shadow, Hollywood, Fame

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• Jesus' kingdom was not like the popular expectation. He used the phrase 'kingdom of God' with a different meaning. His kingdom was not of this world (John 18:36). It was not like the kingdoms of this world. It was the kingdom of God, a supernatural kingdom. It was invisible to most people (John 3:3)-it could not be understood or experienced without the Holy Spirit (v. 6). God is Spirit, and the kingdom of God is a spiritual kingdom.

  Tom Harpur

  Spiritual, Jesus, People

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• As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of God; though that be visible, yet it discovers an invisible God and his invisible properties.

  Anthony Burgess

  God, Glasses, World

  Anthony Burgess (1656). “CXLV Espository Sermons Upon the Whole 17th Chapter of the Gospel According to St. John: Or, Christ's Prayer Before His Passion Explicated and Both Practically and Polemically Improved”, p.159

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• When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Distance, Boys, Two

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• If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters.

  Lynda Barry

  Writing, Fate, Order

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• New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance and industry. This Invisible Government is reactionary, sinister, unscrupulous, mercenary, and sordid. It is wanting in national ideals and devoid of conscience... This kind of government must be scourged and destroyed.

  William Jennings Bryan

  New York, Cities, Government

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• Although a great restaurant experience must include great food, a bad restaurant experience can be achieved through bad service alone. Ideally, service is invisible. You notice it only when something goes wrong.

  Dana Spiotta

  Great Restaurants, Great Food, Bad Service

  "Control" by Dana Spiotta, www.newyorker.com. November 21, 2011.

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• What is essential is to draw the energy of love from your heart and bring it into your mind, as San Exubere said: "it is only with the heart that one sees rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye."

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Eye, Buddhism

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• There are many universes, countless universes, and many of them are invisible. We call these the astral planes, but they are as real as this world is and they're filled with beings that have life spans.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Buddhism, Other Worlds

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• Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the field of attention that we're in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reflection, Self

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