Dunkelheit / Obscurity Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Dunkelheit / Obscurity:

Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people. Sonia Sotomayor

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

Adrienne Rich

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Taylor Caldwell

I was flavour of the year for a couple of years, and then, like everyone else, I faded into obscurity. I didn't car;, I loved it.

Paul Hogan

As authors, we're all trying to fight against obscurity and outside distractions, but it's a tough battle.

Ryan Holiday

The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.

Meg Rosoff

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.

George Allen, Sr.

Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.

Sonia Sotomayor

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

Edward Gibbon

Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.

Wilhelm Wundt

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

James Thurber

But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.

Pierre Loti

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

Thomas Merton

Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.

John Clute

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.

Taylor Caldwell

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

Steven Soderbergh

You have to demand things and believe you're worth more. And once you do demand them, you're usually going to get them. The players who first came in were very humble because we came from obscurity. Today's players, on the other hand, have a sense of entitlement.

Sue Wicks

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

William Kingdon Clifford

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

Eric Clapton

Despite its obscurity, probably no element on the periodic table has as colorful a history as antimony. Money, madness, poison, linguistics, charlatanism, sex - pretty much every theme that runs through the periodic table can be found in Element 51.

Sam Kean

I was discovered, or mentored, by Norman Lear, who plucked me from the grinder of relative obscurity.

Alan Thicke

To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.

Benjamin F. Wade

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

Jim Carrey

I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up in the political maelstrom.

Samantha Power

I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig.

Joe Rogan

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

Charlotte Bronte

For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It's a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation, or region, or empire... only to later fall into obscurity and disrepair, never to regain their former glory.

Hanya Yanagihara

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

Elvis Costello

I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity.

Manoj Bhargava

Obscurity is the realm of error.

Luc de Clapiers

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Aldous Huxley

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

Tallulah Bankhead

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

Peabo Bryson

Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose from the opposite side a strain of the most delightful music he had ever heard.

Hugh Miller

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Joseph Addison

I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.

Robert Burns