Quotes of Unclear - somelinesforyou

“ I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten, even by God. ”

- Robert Browning

“ I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. ”

- Michael Crichton

“ The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer. ”

- Edward R. Murrow

“ Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. ”

- Dan Quayle

“ I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. ”

- Horace

“ Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ The first sentence of every novel should be: ''Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.'' Meander if you want to get to town. ”

- Michael Ondaatje

“ The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it. ”

- George Berkeley

“ And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair. Wha does the utmost that he can Will whyles do mair. ”

- Robert Burns

“ Sometimes in our confusion, we see not the world as it is, but the world though eyes blurred by the mind. ”

- Unknown

“ It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back. ”

- Lao tzu

“ Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain. ”

- John Keble

“ And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave. - King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 3. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward,But then woos best when most his choice is froward. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common. ”

- Ernest Thompson Seton

“ Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles? ”

- Pablo Neruda

“ There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this… ”

- Roland Barthes

“ Travel is like a drug that permeates the mind with an indefinite but unusual tinge, stimulating and releasing, imparting a greater significance than they possess to the things that interest and amuse it. ”

- Osbert Sitwell

“ The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. ”

- Bill Cosby

“ Sin is whatever obscures the soul. ”

- Andre Gide

“ A constitution should be short and obscure. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. ”

- Jim Bishop

“ Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver. ”

- George Ade

“ In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ Faint heart never won fair lady. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. ”

- Ansel Adams

“ There are two kinds of light — the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. ”

- James Thurber

“ It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. ”

- Marcel Proust
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