Quotes About Revelation

To open your mouth in England is...to put your business in the street: You have confessed your parents, your youth, your school, your salary, your self-esteem, and, alas, your future.

An artist's) role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.

If you're an artist, you're guilty of a crime: not that you're aware, which is bad enough, but that you see things other people don't admit are there.

To tell everything is a very effective means of keeping secrets. Secrets hidden at the heart of midnight are simply waiting to be dragged to the light, as, on some unlucky high noon, they always are. But secrets shrouded in the glare of candor are bound to defeat even the most determined and agile inspector for the light is always changing and proves that the eye cannot be trusted.

a child's major attention has to be concentrated on how to fit into a world which, with every passing hour, reveals itself as merciless.

it was a little bit like being hit by a truck ... but it was the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me.

Credendo vides: by believing, one sees. Post nublia phoebus: after clouds, sun!

It was when Francis repeatedly failed in his response to the unchecked current of accusation and revelation — not just regarding priests as predators, but especially with bishops as enablers, and with bishops and Cardinals as predators, too — that I was forced to undertake a deeper and more comprehensive reckoning.

The subject of the chapter is not what we might expect from the title.

Remember, child," her father had drummed into her, "remember that advice, good advice, comes from unexpected places at unexpected times.

I loved men and was going mad with suppressed desire. It pushed me into a series of affairs with dubious jazz musicians. Sex was not what I imagined. It was tension, scent and prosaic misalliance. It was sweet and sad revelation, and all expectation dashed.

Language liberates as it offends. Confidential taught me that.

John Purvis joined his mother and lawyer on the Phil Donahue show.

There is one thing. One thing that haunts me from page one to page twenty-two. I have never spoken of it. I have never told another person

'Almost' is about uncertainty soon to be dismissed but not quite dispelled. 'Almost' is about revelation to come but not entirely promised.

A truth which comes to us from outside always bears the stamp of uncertainty. We can believe only what appears to each one of us in our own hearts as truth.

No one comes face to face with God and remains unchanged.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

You have to tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people.

Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.

People are always like, 'Did you purposely do something to make people uncomfortable?' And I say the reason why it's uncomfortable is because it's either something that we can't talk about or aren't supposed to talk about, and they're images that aren't ever seen.

Crime, horror, and satire each aim to reveal an ugly or uncomfortable truth: one that, after the reveal, will ensure we'll never be the same. The big difference between those genres being the effect they create.

You can't keep letting people live their happy little lives in oblivion. To move forward they have to be uncomfortable.

I love being uncomfortable. I love feeling very revealed. And when I watch a piece of work that I've done, I'm actually looking for that. How naked is this character? How truthful is this character? If it's truthful, there's automatically a separation.