Quotes About Revelation

I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all that exists, but not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.

My head had been shaved, I was wearing Indian cotton robes, and my skin had turned a deep, chocolate brown-red from the sun," he recalled. "So I'm sitting there and my parents walked past me about five times and finally my mother came up and said 'Steve?' and I said 'Hi!

So, you've uncovered the fact that I'm an asshole. Why is that news?

nobody knew, she said. He had called me right before he was going to be operated on for

That seemed a bit odd. I didn't yet know that taking a long walk was his preferred way

Jobs was blown away by bitmapping. "It was like a veil being lifted from my eyes," he recalled. "I could see what the future of computing was destined to be.

Lightning bolts went off in my head," according to Jobs. "I remember running into the house, crying.

One weekend Jobs was visiting Wayne at his apartment, engaging as they often did in philosophical discussions, when Wayne said that there was something he needed to tell him. "Yeah, I think I know what it is," Jobs replied. "I think you like men." Wayne said yes. "It was my first encounter with someone who I knew was gay," Jobs recalled.

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Once she calmed down, she told Jobs that he had a full sister, Mona Simpson, who was then an aspiring novelist

That seemed a bit odd. I didn't yet know that taking a long walk was his preferred way to have a serious conversation. It turned out

It is a glorious feeling to discover the unity of a set of phenomena that seem at first to be completely separate

is an amazing revelation for those who are interested in uncovering the fundamental secrets of life. It is the way that chemistry—the study of how atoms bond to create molecules—becomes biology.

Nature hides her secret because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.

Clark was bulging with lies when I saw him two weeks later. They danced out of his mouth as though they'd been cooped up there and were glad for a chance to stretch their legs.

Plot is the structure of revelation.

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

He made me question what was, when for a whole lifetime up till that moment, I accepted the world's excuses.

It's a continual revelation when you come to understand that the only thing you can expect in return for your own dignity is hatred in the eyes of others. "BLUE

The sun is out and the game's afoot

Jesus was doing cartwheels across the lawn in the porch light.

The gay world has been kept in hot water lately by the impudent publication of the celebrated Harriet Wilson, — — from earliest possibility, I suppose, who lived with half the gay world at hack and manger, and now obliges such as will not pay hushmoney with a history of whatever she

should these tales ever become public, whether you have not given us a page of talk for every single idea which two words might have communicated, while

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.