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Quotes About Obscuring

Even a light-colored shirt or blouse or clown makeup can cause a reflection on the monitor, obscuring some of the data displayed.
~ Randall Whitehead
It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty.
~ Joseph Sobran
I guess I do a really good job at covering.
~ Michelle Pfeiffer
To help others achieve that we must first remove what is obscuring our own mind. Then, like the doctor, our capacity to help is very much greater.
~ David Michie
Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.
~ John Piper
Error handling is important, but if it obscures logic, it's wrong.
~ Robert C. Martin
The important function of an American white sauce was not to enhance but to blanket.
~ Laura Shapiro
a wild submergence of soul, a dipping of all colors into an obscuring dye
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Feminism is still a subject which provokes passion and, it has to be said, unreason. 'Are you for it or against it?' is the most question. But such polarization is now unhelpful, obscuring an understanding of what feminism has achieved, what has changed, and what role gender now actually does play.
~ Rosalind Coward
Dafür! Gefühl ist alles; Name ist Schall und Rauch, Umnebelnd Himmelsglut.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hence there is   nothing that Satan so much endeavors to accomplish as to bring on mists   with the view of obscuring Christ, because he knows, that by this means   the way is opened up for every kind of falsehood.
~ John Calvin
Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.
~ John Piper
A whirl of thick flakes emerged from an irony-grey infinity, almost obscuring Granta House.
~ Jojo Moyes
We don't understand that the acute pain is an outgrowth of the deeper, chronic problem. And until we stop treating the symptoms and start treating the problem, our efforts will only bring counterproductive results. We will only be successful at obscuring the chronic pain even more.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Calvin: I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! Want to see my book report? Hobbes: (Reading Calvin's paper) "The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Dick and Jane: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender modes." Calvin: Academia, here I come!
~ Bill Watterson
But in the man and his presidency Dowd had seen the tragic flaw. In the political back-and-forth, the evasions, the denials, the tweeting, the obscuring, crying "Fake News," the indignation, Trump had one overriding problem that Dowd knew but could not bring himself to say to the president: "You're a fucking liar.
~ Bob Woodward
The mosquitoes were a formidable enemy, coming in thick clouds so dense as to be almost palpable, obscuring each man's vision of those near him. The insects buzzed and whined around them, clinging to every part of their bodies, getting into ears and nose and mouth.
~ Michael Crichton
The subprime mortgage market had a special talent for obscuring what needed to be clarified.
~ Michael Lewis
Handling these plants and animals, taking back the production and the preparation of even just some part of our food, has the salutary effect of making visible again many of the lines of connection that the supermarket and the home-meal replacement have succeeded in obscuring. yet of course never actually eliminated. To do so is to take back a measure of responsibility, too, to become, at the very least, a little less glib in one's pronouncements.
~ Michael Pollan
The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder.
~ Frantz Fanon
A lamp can be covered with dust and dirt to the point of obscuring its light completely. The problem life poses for the human self is to cleanse the dross of its being to the point where its infinite center can shine forth in full display. p22
~ Huston Smith
I flexed my wrist, popped a silver needle into my palm, and offered it to him. 'What's this?' 'A needle.' 'What should I do with it?' He'd walked right into it. Too easy. 'Please use it to pop your head. It's obscuring my view of the room.' - Kate & Saiman
~ Ilona Andrews
What's this " "A needle." "What should I do with it " He'd walked right into it. Too easy. "Please use it to pop your head. It's obscuring my view of the room.
~ Ilona Andrews
The hours dragged by and the black shadow of calamity brooded over the town, obscuring the hot sun until people looked up startled into the sky as if incredulous that it was clear and blue instead of murky and heavy with scudding clouds.
~ Mitchell Margaret