Quotes About Obscured

Il mondo è come un palloncino pieno di cose che non si vedono.

In truth, a good chunk of activity in derivative markets is driven by speculation. Part of it is obscured by semantics; the boundary between speculation and investment is always hazy. If you lost money you speculated. If you made money you were investing. Or was it the other way around?

Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.

To most people, Hans Hubermann was barely visible. An un-special person. Certainly, his painting skills were excellent. His musical ability was better than average. Somehow, though, and I'm sure you've met people like this, he was able to appear as merely part of the background, even if he was standing at the front of a line. He was always just there. Not noticeable.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Even the stars had been obscured, their light stolen by Dyson masks: dense orbiting habitat clouds, even solid spheres, asteroids and planets dismantled and made into traps for every stray photon. It was a depressing sight: an engineered sky, a sky full of scaffolding and ruins.

In most cases, the answer was no; success was driven by decisions the team had made in the past. None of its current initiatives were having any impact. But this was obscured because the company's gross metrics were all "up and to the right.

But you can't see me.

and the Creole houses were invisible behind the rain.

Fog obscured the distant towers of Manhattan, allowing only pale silhouettes of the World Trade Center to rise above gray and white opacity.

It's unreasonable and unjustified, of course, but it's always there, hiding in the long shadow thrown by envy.

again, again, unquestioned, not fully seen, not wanting to fully see.

The event of history is hidden in time.

concealed from view a face so face-like in its appearance as to be positively facial.

What are you afraid of then?" "Not being able to see, I think, [...] not seeing because you're obsessed by something that blots out the world. Some sort of mania or belief. Or passion. That awful kind of love that makes leaves and birds and cherry blossom invisible because it's not the face on some man.

Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.

When you get wet in a fog it is very difficult to dry yourself.

The best director is the one you don't see.

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured, but, like the sun, only for a time.

The truth sometimes reminds me of a city buried in sand. As time passes, the sand piles up even thicker, and occasionally it's blown away and what's below is revealed.

This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials.

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media.

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.