Quotes About Revelation

When they saw the host of chameleon butterflies and the way they both clothed the girl Ayesha and provided her with her only solid food, these visitors were amazed, and retreated with confounded expectations, that is to say with a hole in their pictures of the world that they could not paper over.

Fictions could be as powerful as histories, revealing the new people to themselves, allowing them to understand their own natures and the natures of those around them, and making them real.

unkept secrets always manage to escape, under a door, through a keyhole or an open window, until everyon knows everything and nobody knows how ... (...)

America's secret identity wasn't a superhero. Turns out it was a supervillain.

Aš iš tav?s padariau žmog?. Bet kok? žmog?? To t?vai niekada nežino. Bent jau iš anksto; o kai sužino, b?na per v?lu.

As we grow, we lose our belief in our progenitors's superhuman nature. They shrivel into more or less unimpressive men and women. Apollo turns out to be Oeagrus, god and Joseph the carpenter end up being one and the same. The gods we worship, we discover, are not different from ourselves.

I had learned that secrets were not always a bad thing.

Had he, as a child, intuited something and then, afraid of what he had guessed, buried the intuition so deep that he retained no memory of it? And could books, some books, gain access to those hidden chambers and use what they found there?

I see that under your old-goof act, beneath your sweet nutty disguise, you're maybe someone else entirely, and that part of you is locked away right now. It's like you've caged the beast.

Pandora, possessed by the unleashed contents of her box.

Saladin had been seized by the melancholy notion that the garden had been a better place before he knew its names, that something had been lost which he would never be able to regain.

In the grave I can tell you the truth. I am your own Dunia, but I am also a princess of the jinnias or jiniri. The slits in the world are reopening, so I can come back to see you

Medeniyet, gerçek doÄŸam?z? kendimizden gizleyen bir el çabukluÄŸudur.

You can't keep a devil locked up in the attic and expect to keep it to yourself forever.

These are the times we live in, in which men hide their truths, perhaps even from themselves, and live in lies, until the lies reveal those truths in ways impossible to foretell.

All novelists know that crisis reveals character.

The experience was not of love growing but of its being no longer obscured.

I also heard from readers whose parents had told the truth about Santa simply because they didn't want the inevitable unraveling of the Christmas myth to cast any doubt on the divinity of Jesus. I suppose some ironies are harder to detect than others.

These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.

If we did get a divorce, the only way my husband would find out about it is if they announced it on Wide World of Sports.

When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength.

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the "hero" within us is revealed.

As you study your Bible with the help of the Holy Spirit, and live out the truths that God reveals to you, you will discover new stability, strength, and confidence.

To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.