Quotes About Obscured

Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies.

We live in a world where words are as meaningless as a snowflake in a blizzard

Bosch now recognized it as an action of regret. The killer covered his victim's face so he would no longer have to see it.

On the wall behind was a row of chrome letters that said "We Make The Future," but the words were obscured by a tangle of vines.

Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it.

Some guys just slip under the radar.

The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes.

La meta che l'uomo persegue è sempre velata. La ragazza che desidera il matrimonio desidera qualcosa di cui non sa nulla. Il giovane che brama la gloria non ha alcuna idea di cosa sia questa gloria. Ciò che dà un senso al nostro comportamento è sempre qualcosa che ci è completamente sconosciuto.

Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.

Every journalism bromide - speaking truth to power, comforting the afflicted, afflicting the powerful - that otherwise would be hopelessly sappy to a journalist of any experience, has become a Twitter grail. The true business of journalism has become obscured because there is really no longer a journalism business.

What would be the good of being a marksman, when you cannot see the end of your own rifle, let alone the man you are firing at?

This salt mist blots out everything that comforts and speaks to the traveler: roads, bridges, towns, trees. There's no face I might see and know, only the mist whose insistent hand runs over our faces and flanks.

The trouble started one morning when there was a fog.

I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways.

The rumor is Chu Hing really wanted the 'Green Turtle' to be Chinese American, but the publisher didn't think that would sell. If you read those books, the hero almost always has his back facing the camera so you can't see his face. When he turns around, his face is obscured.

I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify those things in the past that are useful and those things that are not; and they ought to give nourishment.

She tried to stare hard past all this, down the road to the patch where this would end badly. But the view was obscured by hope and distance, and by the mist that always lies over the new.

It was too wet to see the sun go down, too grey to see the moon come up.

The threat of war hung on the air like a thick fog and it blinded him until he could see nothing beyond the haze. Even the stars grew faint.

The gorgeous breathlessness and thrilling pulse -- those are sensations that the years have layered on top of the initial emptiness, like sheet after sheet of silk covering a bare table. More than fifty years later I can only see the cloth; the table has been obscured.

They hid it obviously.

Obnubilated," according to Enoch Root—a word that had forced everyone to go to their dictionaries. It meant "hidden under clouds.

I can't see anything" he said in a muffled voice, hand over his eyes. "I'm blind.

She only ever saw him at a great distance, and doesn't even know what his true face looked like. She wishes she did. And