Obscure Quotes - page 13

The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions. (Billy Joel)
Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer. View quote
Ted Cruz
I understand that the word ‘occult' means hidden, but surely that is not meant to be the final state of all this information, hidden forever. I don't see why there is any need to further obscure things that are actually lucid and bright. View quote
Alan Moore
The literary opposers of Christianity, from Herbert to Hume, have been seldom read. They made some stir in their day: during their span of existence they were noisy and noxious; but like the locusts of the east, which for a while obscure the air, and destroy the verdure, they were soon swept away and forgotten. View quote
William Wilberforce
The essence of our God is obscure. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
I can't let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her. View quote
Anaïs Nin
The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none. View quote
Patrick Modiano
Rock & roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting. View quote
Grace Slick
I guess I try and learn all the time from every experience in life, so my thinking is a hybrid of everything. I'd have to attribute some of that to my work in the fashion industry - in some obscure way. View quote
Lily Cole
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I know, that obscure as I am, my name is making a considerable deal of fuss in the world. (Davy Crockett)
Our choice is apparently most free, and we are least obviously driven to determine our course, in those cases where the future is most obscure, that is, when the balance of advantage appears most doubtful. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Different cultures may translate these principles into different practices and over time may even totally obscure these principles through the wrongful use of freedom. Nevertheless, they are present. Like the law of gravity, they operate constantly. View quote
Stephen Covey
Occasionally, light added to itself may give obscure surfaces on a body that has already received light. View quote
Francesco Maria Grimaldi
I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions. View quote
Henry Rollins
The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best. View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
[On protests against going to war with Iraq] One woman bore a picture of some female genitalia – possibly hers, the provenance was obscure – over the caption 'This Bush Is For Peace.' Another waxed eloquent: 'Trim Bush.' Out in Marin County somewhere, other bushes for peace disrobed, lay down on a hillside, and formed the words 'No War.' I wonder if there are any conflicted nudists, with a bush for Iraq and a rack for Bush. View quote
Mark Steyn
The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not to follow their thoughts beyond that point. View quote
George Orwell
Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity. View quote
Bill Watterson
The past is certain, the future obscure. (Thales)
Blind error, avaricious time, adverse fortune, Deaf envy, vile madness, jealous iniquity, Crude heart, perverse spirit, insane audacity, Will not be sufficient to obscure the air for me, Will not place the veil before my eyes, Will never bring it about that I shall not Contemplate my beautiful Sun. View quote
Giordano Bruno
An old Russian lady who has for some obscure reason begged me not to divulge her name, happened to show me in Paris the diary she had kept in the past. .... I cannot see any real necessity of complying with her anonymity. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to his friends. What these tales lack in artfulness they make up for in passion and authenticity. For a writer of fiction, they are solid gold. I have stolen so much from memoirs it's ridiculous. View quote
Steven Pressfield
The whole is a riddle, an aenigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject. But such is the frailty of human reason, and such the irresistible contagion of opinion, that even this deliberate doubt could scarcely be upheld; did we not enlarge our view, and opposing one species of superstition to another, set them a quarrelling; while we ourselves, during their fury and contention, happily make our escape, into the calm, though obscure, regions of philosophy. View quote
David Hume