Quotes About Opacity

Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.

We cannot experience any entity in its totality, because we are not pure, disembodied minds, but are palpable bodies with our own opacities and limits.

When a style becomes opaque, when you look at it rather than looking through it, the schoolmarmly bell of reproach begins to ring.

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

Black and white is as if phoenix of colors has eloped into opacity.

La transparencia avanza pero la opacidad también.

Each message had thickened the fog more than cleared it.

Light enters through the window and opacity is vanished!" exclaimed the alien.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

Why, then, is it so crucial to have ethnographies of urban policing? The answer to this question certainly becomes clearer now. It is not simply that ethnography provides a sort of immersion in the world of law enforcement, allowing us to understand what happens when the police are in the field. It is perhaps more importantly that it produces a vision of a world that has been made either invisible or opaque to most of us.

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

It is not true that the more you love, the better you understand; all that the action of love obtains from me is merely this wisdom: that the other is not to be known; his opacity is not the screen around a secret, but. instead, a kind of evidence in which the game of reality and appearance' is done away with. I am then seized with that exaltation of loving someone unknown, someone who will re- main so forever: a mystic impulse: I know what I do not know.

Then turn around and I'll cuff you." "Not really necessary, either." "It's for your safety as well as mine," Davison said. Which Reacher figured had to come from a role play class. Maybe led by a psychologist. Maybe the task of the day was to find a line that could inhibit further resistance simply by stunning vital cortexes in the brain with its blatant opacity. How could putting him in handcuffs help his safety?

Note that the word 'mute' is regarded by linguists as an onomatopoeic formation referring not to silence but to a certain fundamental opacity of human being, which likes to show the truth by allowing to be seen hiding.

I myself am opaque, for some reason. Their eyes cannot see me. Yes, that's it: The world is autistic with respect to me.

Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.

Nothing important is completely explicable.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

L'amore è opaco come i vetri delle finestre dei cessi

Quand vous regardez le plafond de cette chambre, qu'est-ce que vous y voyez? -L'intérieur de ma tête. -C'est comment? -Opaque.

Conspiracy theories feed on opacity, and that's a longtime problem with short selling. Large long positions must be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission in public filings, but not large short positions.

They'd like to see through me, but nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

Even guppies have their opacities.