Obscure Quotes - Page 24

• The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what’s closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.

  Alistair Begg

  Teacher, Tasks

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• The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.

  Gregory Maguire

  Elements, World, Juxtaposition

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• Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri.

  Parley P. Pratt

  Midnight, Dungeons, Village

  Parley P. Pratt (2008). “Spirituality: The Key to the Science of Theology”, p.11, Cedar Fort

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• What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?

  Gustave Flaubert

  Book, Wind, Ideas

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• I feel the need... the need for speed.

  Tom Cruise

  Movie, Gun, Great Year

  FaceBook post by Tom Cruise from Jan 24, 2013

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• I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath in the courts of England; I have witnessed a congress in solemn session to give laws to nations;...but dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains at midnight, in a dungeon, in an obscure village of Missouri.

  Parley P. Pratt

  Law, Giving, Justice

  Parley P. Pratt (2008). “Spirituality: The Key to the Science of Theology”, p.11, Cedar Fort

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