Quotes and Sayings About Obscure
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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.
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No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.
-- Alfred AustinSource : "The Bridling of Pegasus: Prose Papers on Poetry". Book by Alfred Austin, 1910.
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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 -
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Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.
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The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.
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If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one,
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.
-- Arthur MachenSource : Arthur Machen (2016). “The Great Return: Machen's Collection”, p.1, VM eBooks
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
-- Barbara Walters -
I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.
-- Billy Collins -
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
-- Blaise PascalSource : Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.307, Cosimo, Inc.
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You can be so dignified that you obscure the reality of what is going on.
-- Cathy McMorris RodgersSource : "Sex And Power And The Law" by Charles Bierbauer, www.cnn.com.
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Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.
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To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
-- Dennis Potter -
I am never needlessly obscure I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.
-- Donald Barthelme -
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
-- E. B. White -
The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer.
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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.
-- Ferdinand de Saussure -
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Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.
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When the situation is obscure, attack
-- Heinz GuderianSource : "Waging Business Warfare". Book by David J. Rogers, p. 236, 1988.
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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel -
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Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.
-- Horace -
In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]
-- Horace -
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A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.
-- Hugh Kingsmill