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Quotes About Obscured

I cannot fight an enemy whose face is hidden.
~ Catherine Anderson
Lightning hides the colour of night
~ Munia Khan
Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or whether it be obscured or disfigured, as is the case with sinners; or whether it be clear and beautiful as is the case with the just.
~ Thomas Aquinas
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Plato said: 'He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration in the belief that craftsmanship alone suffices will remain a bungler and his presumptuous poetry will be obscured by the songs of the maniacs.'
~ Chuck Palahniuk
crucial part of the map was obscured, however: the part that showed a waterway extending through South America
~ Laurence Bergreen
Blind, blind, blind . . .
~ Charles Dickens
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
~ James Joyce
Somehow sleep allows us to see clearly those very things that are obscured by the light of day.
~ James Lee Burke
The romantic glorification of the Army of Northern Virginia by generations of Lost Cause writers has obscured this truth.
~ James M. McPherson
We live in a twilight sort of world where, unfortunately, the perception of the seriousness of abortion - has grown progressively obscured in the minds of many of our contemporaries.
~ Sean Brady
Flat or uninteresting writing often signals something deeper that is being covered up.
~ Kathi Appelt
I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
~ Zoe Saldana
It's the angle. You can't see me from where you're standing.
~ Susan Rieger, The Heirs
Friction thus caused delay and confusion. Action in war became like walking in water, and vision was regularly obscured. "All actions take place in something virtually akin to dusk, which in addition, like fog or moonlight, gives objects an exaggerated size and a grotesque view.
~ Lawrence Freedman
Well, damn," Lula said, "I can hear his little feet going, but I can't see him. He's lost in between all these cars.
~ Janet Evanovich
The view of the highway was so bad that you could not even see the next viaduct. Te moment it loomed out of the mist it disappeared again, as if the world created itself and was blotted out again.
~ Janet Fitch
Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.
~ Tom Stoppard
Guys don't go for me. Period. I don't distract them. They don't sneak glances in my direction. They don't think of me when I'm not standing right in front of them. I'm scenery. I'm background.
~ Dana Reinhardt
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
~ Henry Louis Gates
What I see is nothing - I want what it hides - that is not nothing.
~ Jean Rhys
Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.
~ Youssef Ziedan
The sun itself sees not till heaven clears.
~ William Shakespeare