Obscur'd Quotes

#1. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

John Milton

#2. Philosophy does not have to be only an intellectual exercise but can be used to understand everyday living.

Skye Cleary

#3. When there is a spirit of controversy in the church or in the land, a revival is needful. The spirit of religion is not the spirit of controversy. There can be no prosperity in religion, where the spirit of controversy prevails.

Charles Grandison Finney

#4. Fear flickered in her eyes for a beat but she continued to stare up at me, right into my eyes, trying to be brave. I liked it. I liked it a lot. Yeah, I'm a sick fucker. And the only thing scarier than a sick fucker is a sick fucker with power.

D.D. Prince

#5. I'd think, 'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person.

George Clooney

#6. I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.

Elfriede Jelinek

#7. But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.

Stephen King

#8. I will tease you, bite you, and spank you.

Lisa Renee Jones

#9. Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that seem the most mysterious.

Marvin Minsky

#10. Do you really think that I don't have anything better to do than to spend my time thinking about you? Digging up a little of the goods on Luc Martineau?"
Fine lines appeared at the corners of his eyes and he laughed. "Sweetheart, there is nothing little about Luc's goods.

Rachel Gibson

#11. Light the incense! You have to burn to be fragrant.

Rumi

#12. In the light of His example, we can prove that suffering is to God's child the token of the Father's love and the channel of His richest blessing.

Andrew Murray

#13. Your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.

Charles Bukowski

#14. I've learned over the years that geography is not that important, except that I seem to work better in the country than the city. I get more done. There's just less happening around me, and I have more time and concentration to work on music.

Steve Reich

#15. Our confidence ... is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.

Lesslie Newbigin

#16. It feels like forever since I've been "here" without being "there" and "there too" and "what about there.

Huntley Fitzpatrick