Unseen Quotes - Page 14

• I did not survive everything. No one ever does. Little pieces of you - sometimes the best of you - get lost in a little lie here, a little joke there. And of course, the aftereffect is the tiny sob - unseen, unheard, deeply felt.

  Carol Grace

  Lying, Self, Doe

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• Guardian angels are perhaps the most popular kind, probably because we all know how fragile life can be. We desperately need protection from unexpected circumstances and unseen dangers. Just the thought of good angels hovering around us gives people a feeling of safety!

  Gary Kinnaman

  Angel, People, Safety

  Gary Kinnaman (1994). “Angels Dark and Light”

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• The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

  Henry James

  Judging, Pieces, May

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.12972, Delphi Classics

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• I'll dig in into my days, having come here to live, not to visit. Grey is the price of neighboring with eagles, of knowing a mountain's vast presence, seen or unseen.

  Denise Levertov

  Women, Home, Eagles

  Denise Levertov (1993). “Evening Train”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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• The dream Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark East, Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Dark, Men

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (2004). “Selected Poems”, p.142, Penguin UK

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• A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sweet, Cheer, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1908, Delphi Classics

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• Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

  William Hazlitt

  Family, Running, Blood

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2020, Delphi Classics

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• ... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish?

  Frances Wright

  Education, Wise, Religious

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• The nimble lie
  Is like the second-hand upon a clock;
  We see it fly; while the hour-hand of truth
  Seems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen,
  And wins, at last, for the clock will not strike
  Till it has reached the goal.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Truth, Lying, Moving

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.137, Wildside Press LLC

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• At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come.

  John Milton

  Stars, Heaven, Birth

  John Milton, Matthew S. Stallard (2011). “Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition”, p.471, Mercer University Press

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• God, who oft descends to visit men
  Unseen, and through their habitations walks
  To mark their doings.

  John Milton

  God, Men, Mark

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.522

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• Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen.

  Anne Douglas Sedgwick

  People, Rebel, Refuse

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

  H. A. Guerber

  Outcomes, Invisibility

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

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• Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

  Ian Mckellen

  Old Friends, Architecture, Love Your Life

  "Ian McKellen: 'I couldn't be a dad, I'm too selfish'". Mirror.co.uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 11, 2010.

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• But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete form of a man. In something that gives a focus to all the other things he knows to be real. Something that makes unseen things manifest and allows him to come to his hopes and dreams through his outer eye and through the touch and feel of his natural hand.

  Ralph Ellison

  Dream, Real, Believe

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• I think I am most fond of the unseen part. I mean that the various cultural experiences that I go through, and the behavioral aspects of getting the work done, are just as important as the installation and the photograph. So, for me, the relationship between the two is more about hybridism and the search for an ideal form that I'm never going to arrive at. The installation and the photograph are mere approximations of this ideal.

  Sandy Skoglund

  Mean, Thinking, Two

  Sandy Skoglund, Smith College. Museum of Art (1998). “Sandy Skoglund: reality under siege : a retrospective”, Harry N. Abrams

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• Gail Anderson-Dargatz has a noticing eye, a voice as unique as the countryside she writes about, and a heart large enough to love her entire cast of distinct and memorable characters. In The Cure for Death by Lightning she fashions an irresistible song out of the joys and dangers of growing up, the mysteries and wonders of life on a farm, the thrilling terror of trying to outrun the awful unseen force that pursues a growing girl. This novel opens a door to a shining, surprising world.

  Jack Hodgins

  Girl, Fashion, Song

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• All things are created twice. All things. Vision is the first creation. For a house it's called the blueprint. For a life it's called a mission. For a day it's called a goal and a plan. For a parent it's called a belief in the unseen potential of a child. For all, it is the mental creation which always precedes the physical, or second, creation.

  Stephen Covey

  Children, Goal, Parent

  Stephen R. Covey (2009). “Everyday Greatness: Inspiration for a Meaningful Life”, p.181, Thomas Nelson

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• For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.

  Charles Dickens

  Night, Doors, Hands

  Charles Dickens, Matty Groves (2004). “The Chimes”, p.2, Quiet River Press LLC

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• You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You'll know it when you hit a home run.

  Steve Wozniak

  Running, Home, Apples

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• A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Government, World, Form

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• The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting
  down every day and trying. Why is this important? Because when we sit down day after
  day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen. A process is set in
  motion by which, inevitably and infallibly, heaven comes to our aid. Unseen forces enlist
  in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Heaven, Serendipity

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.108, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen

  Rene Descartes

  Desire, Motto, Live Well

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• To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally assumed to be unable to depict that which is not visible to the eye and yet, the photographer who wields it well can depict what lies unseen in his memory.

  Eikoh Hosoe

  Photography, Memories, Lying

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• Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Men, Thinking

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.134

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