Obscure Quotes - Page 18

• The pain of loneliness is one way in which he wants to get our attention. We may be earnestly desiring to be obedient and holy. But we may be missing the fact that it is here, where we happen to be at this moment and not in another place or another time, that we may learn to love Him - here where it seems He is not at work, where He seems obscure or frightening, where He is not doing what we expected Him to do, where He is most absent. Here and nowhere else is the appointed place. If faith does not got to work here, it will not work at all.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Pain, Loneliness, Missing

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• You can be so dignified that you obscure the reality of what is going on.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Reality

  "Sex And Power And The Law" by Charles Bierbauer, www.cnn.com.

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• In a small Swiss city sits an international organization so obscure and secretive... Control of the institution, the Bank for International Settlements, lies with some of the world's most powerful and least visible men: the heads of 32 central banks, officials able to shift billions of dollars and alter the course of economies at the stroke of a pen.

  Keith Bradsher

  Money, Powerful, Lying

  "INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS; Obscure Global Bank Moves Into the Light". www.nytimes.com. August 5, 1995.

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• It's only been in the past two generations that we truly understood the impact our civilization has had on the natural world. To our credit as a species, we have turned this obscure scientific fact about carbon cycles into one of the most important political issues of the 21st century.

  Annalee Newitz

  Past, Civilization, Carbon Cycle

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Whenever I'm giving talks, I always ask people to think of the most obscure questions because I enjoy those the most. I always get the same questions: Why does Pickwick say "plock" and will there be a movie? I like the really obscure questions because there's so much in the books. There are tons and tons of references and I like when people get the little ones and ask me about them. It's good for the audience [and also] they realize there's more there.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Thinking, People

  Interview with Simone Swink, www.januarymagazine.com. June, 2005.

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• The truth of the matter is that for all the drive-in movie references, what Weston Ochse has really created in Multiplex Fandango is a travelogue. Acting as narrator and guide, Weston takes you on a trip to places familiar and obscure-New Orleans, the Sonoran desert, Mexico's Pacific coast, and the dark, impenetrable reaches of the soul. He shows off sights that chill the blood, and as with any good trip, the things seen and experienced along the way will stay with you for a lifetime.

  Jeff Mariotte

  Dark, New Orleans, Sight

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• The passage of the mythological hero may be over ground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward--into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost, forgotten powers are revivified, to be made available for the transfiguration of the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Long, Overcoming

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.22, New World Library

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• The nations, and the sects, of the Roman world, admitted with equal credulity, and similar abhorrence, the reality of that infernal art [witchcraft], which was able to control the eternal order of the planets, and the voluntary operations of the human mind. . . . They believed, with the wildest inconsistency, that this preternatural dominion of the air, of earth, and of hell, was exercised, from the vilest motives of malice or gain, by some wrinkled hags and itinerant sorcerers, who passed their obscure lives in penury and contempt.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Reality, Air

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.253

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• As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.

  David Eddings

  Secret, Overwhelmed, Rage

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• If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure

  Trevor Dunn

  Eye, Want, Way

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• I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.

  Randall Munroe

  Jobs, Old Job, Virginia

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• The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.

  William S. Burroughs

  Islam, Atheism, Lines

  William S. Burroughs (1984). “Naked lunch”, Grove Pr

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• I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Want, Way, Not Afraid

  Isabelle Eberhardt (2003). “The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

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• That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.

  Ricky Jay

  Use, Way, Becoming

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2009.

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• My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.

  Casey Abrams

  Queens, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Understanding, Humanity, Strive

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1897.

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• And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than by disputes the public peace disturb; For points obscure are of small use to learn, But common quiet is mankind's concern.

  John Dryden

  Running, Church, Doctrine

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.300, Pearson Education

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• Penthouse' didn't seem to concentrate as much on the girls' faces, and I really wanted to see the girls' faces. It seems like through the 1980's, they almost went out of their way to obscure the girls' faces.

  Chester Brown

  Girl, Way, Faces

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• Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain.

  Eugenie Clark

  Appreciate, Unseen, Use

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• A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.

  John Ray

  Memories, Science, Ink

  John Ray (1744). “The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation”, p.278

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• The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and, in fact, there is nothing that is so apt to obscure God's face as a religion.

  Martin Buber

  Historical, Religion, Faces

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• There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.

  Sara Zarr

  Struggle, Awful, Hard

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• But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

  Francisco Goya

  Nature, Eye, Details

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• The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Lying, Opportunity, Night

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• Feuerbach ... recognizes ... "even love, in itself the truest, most inward sentiment, becomes an obscure, illusory one through religiousness, since religious love loves man only for God's sake, therefore loves man only apparently, but in truth God only." Is this different with moral love? Does it love the man, this man for this man's sake, or for morality's sake, for Man's sake, and so-for homo homini Deus-for God's sake?

  Max Stirner

  Religious, Men, Sake

  "The Ego and Its Own (1844)". Book by Max Stirner. Cambridge edition, p. 55, 1995.

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