Visible Quotes - Page 22

• At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks, spines of granite, a twisted tree are sculpted in this atmosphere basted with reflections. All that remains: a countryside of imperishable contours.

  Mohammed Dib

  Nature, Reflection, Sky

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• This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.

  Thomas Traherne

  Theatre, World, Kingdoms

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.145, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature may be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature may become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her invisible light.

  Paracelsus

  Nature, Light, Invisible

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• Everybody in New York, including police horses, dresses fashionably, and whenever I'm there, even in my sharpest funeral-quality suit with no visible ketchup stains, I feel as though I'm wearing a Hefty trash bag. And it's last year's Hefty trash bag.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Horse, New York

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.143, Crown Archetype

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• A sexual athlete is not likely to find sufficient energy for work of another athletic kind, and the acting of great parts most definitely was and always will be athletic, depending on inner if not on visible energy. Members of other professions that depend on the expenditure of physical energy must, I believe, find similar difficulties when attempting to double up on their energies. One has often heard that the most magnificent specimens of boxers, wrestlers and champions in almost every branch of athletic sport prove to be disappointing upon the removal of that revered jockstrap.

  Laurence Olivier

  Sports, Sex, Believe

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• I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

  Mark Twain

  Media, Talking, Community

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890”

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• Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

  Milton Avery

  Nature, Drama, Wind Blowing

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• I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without.

  Helena Christensen

  Taken, Lines, My Friends

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think all of us who kind of live within the sport recognize that Davis Cup certainly could be a little more visible if perhaps there were some adjustments made to it, and it was made a little bit more easy to understand for the fans, if there's a little bit more of a start and finish line.

  Jim Courier

  Sports, Thinking, Fans

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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, Invisible, Members

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• I've managed to keep my career going in a way that suits me. I'll perform, and then I'll go home to my actual life, and I've never been so visible.

  Debbie Gibson

  Home, Careers, Way

  "Debbie Gibson: Out of the Blue and on Celebrity Apprentice". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.

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• Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits, organised in some part according to social conventions, but also formed by personal inclinations and dispositions. Regimes are of central importance to self-identity precisely because they connect habits with aspects of the visible appearance of the body.

  Anthony Giddens

  Self, Discipline, Identity

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• Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice.

  Anna Godbersen

  Heart, Race, Deflation

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• Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Dream, Home, Motherhood

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• Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.

  Caroline Knapp

  Self, Culture, Labels

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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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• Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.

  Ron Suskind

  War, Troops

  "The President Knows more than He Lets on". Interview with Matthias Gebauer and Georg Mascolo, www.spiegel.de. October 27, 2006.

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• The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields.

  Don Tapscott

  Fields, Losing, Reason

  "Discovery Learning Is the New Higher Learning" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2012.

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• We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the poetry of the Bible, and in all the ordinariness of the lives we live.

  Luci Shaw

  Dream, Vision, Invisible

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• In these gaudy times, we think we will shortly reach the point where everything is known, but the fact is we are ignoring the essential, which is love of all living things, of all beauty both visible and hidden.

  Georges Rouault

  Thinking, Essentials, Facts

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• Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord's people.

  J. C. Ryle

  Real, People, Acting

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• I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Sirens, Body, Tangible

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited

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• Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Clay, Purpose, Territory

  E. L. Doctorow (1994). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, Perennial

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• As the world attracts us with its appearance, and abundance and variety, it is not easy to turn away from it unless in the beauty of things visible the Creator rather than the creature is loved; for, when He says, 'you shall love the Lord your God from all your heart, and from all your mind, and from all your strength' (Mt. 22:37), He wishes us in nothing to loosen ourselves from the bonds of His love. And when He links the love of our neighbor also to this command, He enjoins on us the imitation of His own goodness, that we should love what He loves and do what He does.

  Pope Leo I

  Christian, Heart, Mind

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• It is not enough to know the Son of God in the Father's nature only, unless we acknowledge Him in what is ours without withdrawal of what is His own. For that self-emptying, which He underwent for man's restoration, was the dispensation of compassion, not the loss of power. For, though by the eternal purpose of God there was 'no other name under heaven given to men whereby they must be saved' (Acts 4:12), the Invisible made His substance visible, the Intemporal temporal, the Impassable passable: not that power might sink into weakness, but that weakness might pass into indestructible power.

  Pope Leo I

  Christian, Father, Loss

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