Unseen Quotes - Page 19

• You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here

  Walt Whitman

  Believe, Looks, I Believe

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• His throne is the pulpit. He stands in Christ's stead. His message is the Word of God. Around him are immortal souls. The Savior, unseen, is beside him. The Holy Spirit broods over the congregation. Angels gaze upon the scene, and heaven and hell await the issue. What associations and what vast responsibility!

  Matthew Simpson

  Responsibility, Angel, Issues

  Matthew Simpson (1879). “Lectures on Preaching: Delivered to the Students of Yale College in 1879”

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• A man can be beautiful physically, mentally, or personality wise. True beauty, though, is in the spirit. A genuine man who understands right and wrong, with a strong sense of self is beautiful. A man who can be compassionate and caring, but firm and wise. Someone who can do the right thing no matter who's around to see it. Even if the deed is unseen and unrecognized. That is a beautiful man. One today is worth two tomorrows.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Beautiful, Wise, Strong

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• I listen to the tick of an unseen clock marking moments of time long passed.

  James Frey

  Long, Moments, Tick

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.261, Anchor

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• Life is the path. Can the path be seen? Observe the path and you are far from it. Without observation how can one know they are on the path? The path cannot be seen, nor can it not be unseen. Perception is delusion; abstraction is nonsensical. Your path is freedom. Name it and it vanishes.

  Eric S. Nylund

  Names, Perception, Path

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• Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.

  John H Aughey

  Beautiful, Climbing, Sublime

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• Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother and grandmother, the unseen and invisible world. Another window was brought from my father's side, those classic and Western books.

  Cai Guo-Qiang

  Mother, Father, Book

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• Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.

  Hafez

  Journey, Grieving, Life And Death

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• In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Prayer, Recognition, Devotion

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• What started as a whisper
  Slowly turned into a scream
  Searching for an answer
  Where the question is unseen
  I don't know where you came from
  And I don't know where you've gone
  Old friends become old strangers
  Between the darkness and the dawn

  Ben Harper

  Old Friends, Darkness, Dawn

  Song: Amen Omen, Album: Diamonds on the Inside, 2003

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• Apparently, a great deal of dark, unseen material exists, whose gravitational pull is responsible for the motions of the stars and galaxies that we see.

  John D. Barrow

  Stars, Dark, Responsible

  John D Barrow (2014). “The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series”, p.70, Basic Books

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• Life is a game of whist. From unseen sources The cards are shuffled, and the hands are dealt. I do not like the way the cards are shuffled, But yet I like the game and want to play.

  Eugene Fitch Ware

  Life, Hands, Games

  Eugene Fitch Ware (1899). “Some of the Rhymes of Ironquill [pseud.]: (A Book of Moods.) ...”

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• Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our relative good fortune, should we have it. This is, I think, a pretty worthwhile practice and it is not something you can only do if you believe you are talking to an unseen creator.

  Julian Baggini

  Prayer, Believe, Responsibility

  "You don't have to be religious to pray ... but it helps" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2012.

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• What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen.

  Stanley Donen

  Looks, Want, Opinion

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• Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment, when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Destiny, Hands, Delay

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• We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.

  William Herschel

  Science, America, Spain

  The Living Age ..., Volume 169, p. 460, 1886.

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• For many of us, the computer is the means by which we earn a living. To give it a nod, then, is a way of thanking the tool for what it provides in life. It helps put bread on the table and a roof overhead. It gives us work and pleasure, exercises our minds, brings us information, connects us with other people. It is a partner helping us achieve our goals. Nodding also thanks the unseen hands and minds who helped create our machine.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Gratitude, Mean, Exercise

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• Time washes clean, love's wounds unseen.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Clean, Adages, Wounds

  Song: Long Long Time

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• People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people - a conversation with no one and yet with everyone. What could be stranger than the silence one encounters when addressing a question to a text? What could be more metaphysically puzzling than addressing an unseen audience, as every writer of books must do? And correcting oneself because one knows that an unknown reader will disapprove or misunderstand?

  Neil Postman

  Book, Writing, People

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.13, Penguin

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• I want every image to be the beginning of an unseen image.

  Khalil Gibran

  Want

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• Even when we are frustrated by our inability to understand a circumstance or event, there are unseen angels bringing comfort and protection as directed by the wisdom of God.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Religious

  Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.103, WaterBrook

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• Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.

  John Milton

  Echoes, Nymphs, Shells

  'Comus' (1637) l. 230

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• Fantasy stories open our eyes to an unseen world and train our minds to see beyond the visible. In the New Testament context, this is where our real battles are fought. Good fantasy will reveal the hidden powers of evil that threaten the hero's life and upset his journey. Good fantasy focuses on how a hero finds victory when he learns that he can't win by himself, so he submits to the higher power in faith and obedience.

  Bryan Davis

  Real, Hero, Eye

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• Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

  Abraham Cowley

  Lying, Night, Jewels

  Abraham Cowley (1806). “The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806”, p.261

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• The specter of color is apparent even when it goes unmentioned, and it is all too often the unseen force that influences public policy as well as private relationships. There is nothing more remarkable than the ingenuity that the various demarcations of the color line reflect. If only the same creative energy could be used to eradicate the color line; then its days would indeed be numbered.

  Dr. John

  Color, Creative, Energy

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