Invisibility Quotes - Page 2

• What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Men, Unseen, Unbroken

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• Nowadays, 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.

  Emma Donoghue

  Way, Saws, Problem

  Emma Donoghue (1995). “Hood”

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• When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere

  Jodi Picoult

  Looks, Can Not, Elsewhere

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings -- Gyges' ring of invisibility. And they have left the American people more deeply baffled by their own country's politics than any people on earth. Our public realm lies steeped in twilight, and we call that twilight news.'

  Walter Karp

  Country, Lying, Twilight

  Walter Karp (1992). “Buried alive: essays on our endangered republic”, Franklin Square Pr

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• I go to a Catholic school and I'm telling you: invisibility = eternal damnation. You can take it to the bank.

  Patrick Carman

  School, Catholic, Damnation

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• If America is the land of opportunity, a country where perseverance and hard work is rewarded by recognition, then an illegal harbors the opposite ambitions. His greatest reward us anonymity, invisibility. Aided and abetted by market forces and the laws of supply and demand, he hones his skill to stand up but make sure he's never counted.

  Bella Pollen

  Country, Perseverance, Hard Work

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.256, Pan Macmillan

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• By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact, the modern Western man enforces Immanuel Kant's nineteenth-century theories: To be beautiful, women have to appear childish and brainless. When a woman looks mature and self-assertive, or allows her hips to expand, she is condemned ugly. Thus, the walls of the European harem separate youthful beauty from ugly maturity.

  Fatema Mernissi

  Beautiful, Children, Wall

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• It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Military, Reading

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.103, Routledge

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• Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this ridiculous invisibility for women between the ages of 40 and 60. Unless you're old enough to play a grandmother, there just aren't the roles.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Drama, Grandmother, Play

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• In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Land, League, Three

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Howl's Moving Castle”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you for all my days if you just this once provide me with an invisibility cloak, come on, come on, please please invisibility cloak now now now-. It's very possible that Jane is thinking the same thing, I have no idea, because she's not talking either, and I can't look at her on account of how I'm blinded by embarrassment.

  John Green

  Moving, Thinking, Invisibility Cloak

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• Institutional practices, it seems, perpetuate themselves mostly by their invisibility.

  James L. Farmer, Jr.

  Practice, Seems

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• What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men.

  Irving Kaufman

  Men, Law, History

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• I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Art, Procrastination, Apology

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.388

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• The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

  George Packer

  Age, Lines, Digital

  "Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.

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• what is seen must always be the outcome of much that is unseen.

  H. A. Guerber

  Unseen, Outcomes

  H. A. Guerber (1909). “Myths and Legends of the Middle Ages”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Passion, Years, Essence

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• Oh my God, can you see me? I thought I was wearing my invisibility cloak.

  Cate Tiernan

  Invisibility Cloak, Cloaks

  Cate Tiernan (2012). “Darkness Falls (Immortal Beloved Book Two): Immortal Beloved: Book Two”, p.450, Hachette UK

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• To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.

  Barbara Hurd

  Blessing, Ideas, Luxury

  Barbara Hurd (2003). “Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Selfishly I'd like to have invisibility because I've always wanted to go into other people's houses and see what they look like and just watch them interact.

  Rachel McAdams

  People, House, Watches

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• T-shirts and long pants make me easier to find in a crowd, but also easy to disappear in a crowd because if I am wearing this and suddenly I am not, it's like a Harry Potter invisibility cloak.

  Kevin Smith

  Invisibility Cloak, Long, Potters

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• To say God spake or appeared as he is in his own nature, is to deny his Infiniteness, Invisibility, Incomprehensibility.

  Thomas Hobbes

  God, Deny

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?

  Dick Francis

  Powerful, Science, Thinking

  Dick Francis (2004). “Twice Shy”, p.18, Penguin

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• I think that why the research and the data are so important is because you become so used to seeing the world one way that you don't even notice anymore. [Gender inequality] has this invisibility.

  Emma Watson

  Thinking, Data, Important

  Interview with Geena Davis, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• While the film [Hide and seek] is a work of fiction, I know many people, not just women, who have felt the way my character feels in the film, a certain kind of invisibility. I am grateful that my parents, Bev Umehara and Russell Chang, instilled a healthy sense of self-esteem in me from an early age.

  Garth Kravits

  Self Esteem, Grateful, Character

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