Quotes of Vague - somelinesforyou

“ Oh, what a blamed uncertain thing This pesky weather is; It blew and snew and then it thew, And now, by jing, it's friz. ”

- Philander Johnson

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

- Horace

“ Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Money, which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no value at all and even less. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ I was unrecognizable to myself; I saw my reflection in a window; I didn't know my own face. ”

- Bruce Springsteen

“ Be obscure clearly. ”

- E.B. White

“ Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real. ”

- Tennessee Williams

“ A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day. ”

- Unknown

“ Butterflies… not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures. ”

- Elizabeth Goudge

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

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Never be so brief as to become obscure. ”

- Tryon Edwards

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

- Ambrose Bierce

“ 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

“ The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. ”

- Theodore Hesburgh

“ Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. ”

- James Klass

“ The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places. ”

- Sam Keen

“ When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. ”

- John Updike

“ There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing. ”

- Scotty Bowman

“ Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary. ”

- Margaret Mead

“ The higher a man stands, the more the word "vulgar" becomes unintelligible to him. ”

- John Ruskin

“ My mind is led astray by every faint rustle. ”

- Mason Cooley

“ Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. ”

- Arthur Conan Doyle

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

- Horace

“ It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. ”

- Horace

“ For, it is Nora, again, who will observe the "terrible blurred cloudy look" on the face of Father Stone and will not be able to decide if this is senility or mere fatigue and indigestion. ”

- Unknown

“ There is nothing certain, but the uncertain. ”

- Unknown

“ It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure. ”

- James K. Feibleman

“ The palpable obscure. ”

- John Milton

“ The past is certain, the future obscure. ”

- Thales

“ Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except for heaven and hell, and I have only a vague curiosity as concerns one of those. ”

- Mark Twain
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