Quotes About Revelation

Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

We met a gentleman in a buggy, who, on minute examination, turned out to be Dr. Hall—and Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

For if my poems have always been about survival--and I believe they have been--then survival too keeps revealing itself as an art of the unexpected.

For years of our lives the days pass waywardly, featureless, without meaning, without particular happiness or unhappiness. Then, like turning over a tapestry when you have only known the back of it, there is spread the pattern.

It's about thinking that being blond & slim & perfect will automatically bring you happiness, & then discovering that life is as full of as many disappointments as there were before.

I wonder if they're shielding themselves from me, and not the icy wind. If they knew what I've done… what I'm capable of… what I'm planning to do… they'd do more than cover their necks with scarves. I scowl into the wind. I hate cowardice.

Mara and his daughters are familiar to anyone who practises meditation; the revelation of dark repressed fears, barely remembered fragments of memory, doubts, erotic fantasy and foremost, the desire to get back to familiar ground.

It's surprising what we allow ourselves to feel as 'living' and only later notice our suppression when we finally open up and tell ourselves the truth.

I want to tell you everything without saying anything." (118)

I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.

For Americans who believed that Italians subsisted on bread and macaroni, the edible delights available in the downtown restaurants came as a revelation.

Truth is, I think naked men are kind of strange looking what with their doodles and ding-dong hanging loose like they do. Nevertheless, there's the curiosity thing. I guess it's another one of those car crash experiences, where you feel compelled to look even if you know you'll be horrified.

Girls were born knowing how destructive the truth could be. They learned to hold it in, tamp it down, like gunpowder in an old fashioned gun. Then it exploded in your face on a November day in the rain.

Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

Kagan's law of first contact,'You'll surprise you more than they will.

And I have discovered that God had it all planned, even before I had caught on to it.

Vision is also a fickle creature. You can see an object a hundred times, a thousand times, and it remains unchanged. Then in one swift second you realize it has been changing all along and your eyes hid it from you.

takes a moment to change everything. Savannah glanced at Jane, then smiled at Hunter. "I see you found my car." "It's just the hot rod

Vision is also a fickle creature. You can see an object a hundred times, a thousand times, and it remains unchanged. Then in one swift second you realize it has been changing all along and your eyes hid it from you. Savannah

I had to wonder if the Lord above had flashed a heavenly spotlight over my head and whispered, "Preach this sermon just for her. She's not going to get the message otherwise.

My personal mindblower was "Desolation Row," but the song that cut the deepest was "Like a Rolling Stone." The song was about discovering what was actually going on around you, realizing that life isn't all that you've been told it is.

The key line is "You're invisible now, you've got no secrets to conceal

What is it?' said Moomintroll. Discoveries were his very favourite thing (after mysterious paths, swimming and secrets, that is).

You go through life thinking that there's a secret to life. And the secret to life is there is no secret to life.