Obscure Quotes

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

The past is certain, the future obscure.

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

When the situation is obscure, attack

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

I am Me, You are You, I'm just living my life, you should just live your own life, so take back those obscure preaching and do what you are supposed to do

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.

Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.

At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are driven to make decisions which prove with hindsight to be loaded with meaning. (225)

Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own... INYM - I'm Not Your Momma.

As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.

The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what’s closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.

People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the music.

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.

There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.