Quotes About Revelation

Conscience, the power of conscience, can unearth all kinds of things.

The job of any artiste is to open the eyes of the public to their surroundings and make them aware of it.

Ron allowed us to see right away the private piece of a person about to become very public. I suspect we're going to see more of her very private world - Laura's private experience. I'm not sure yet how public she's going to be about the actions she's going to have to take.

According to my mother, positively no one, least of all herself, had even the faintest suspicion that she was heavy with child at the time of my birth.

I'm always suspicious of celebrities that write about their lives.

At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Periodically, my mind is blown and I'm swamped in feelings I can't deny.

Everybody is the way they are because of certain events that have happened in their life. Oftentimes you'll meet somebody who seems a certain way, and then you realize, 'Oh, that guy's actually the sweetest man I know. But I wouldn't have known that from the outset because that's hidden.'

Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

I guess I feel like somebody flipped a switch, and the whole world is in Technicolor now.

My brother was listening to his transistor radio. He kept switching the earpiece from one ear to the other, which I thought was his idea of a joke. 'You can't do that,' I said. 'You can only hear out of one ear.' 'No, I can hear out of both,' he answered. And that was how I discovered I was deaf in my right ear.

Calling yourself the 'Best Kept Secret' is a die on your own sword.

Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.

The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols.

I think when people see Pluto revealed by New Horizons, its satellite system, its complex surface, its atmosphere, I think they'll have a hard time saying 'That's not a planet' because it obviously will be, and I think most people are already coming to that opinion anyway, but I think that's really going to drive it home viscerally.

Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things God hath prepared for them that love him.

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.

And when the veil lifts, we can see the world as it really is, just for those few seconds before it settles down again. We see all the beauty, and cruelty, and sadness, and love.

It was hard to imagine him sneaking around and leaving a rose on anyone's doormat, but I guess boys will surprise you sometimes.

But sometimes our veils are pushed away for a few moments, like there's a wind blowing it from our faces. And when the veil lifts, we can see the world as it really is, just for those few seconds before it settles down again. We see all the beauty, and cruelty, and sadness, and love. But mostly we are happy not to. Some people learn to lift the veil themselves. Then they don't have to depend on the wind anymore.

I've thought a lot about those veils. I wonder if, every once in a while, someone is born without one.

I knew it. I just knew it." We had been robbed after all.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.