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Obstacles
Had
When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Art
Access
The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.
- Abbas Kiarostami
Nature
Myself
I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
- Ada Lovelace
Gun
Another
It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
- Adam Cohen
Dangerous
Populace
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
- Adam Johnson
Solution
Some
Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on 'MythBusters,' we're always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.
- Adam Savage
Always
Been
It's sort of fair to say that Amazons, both as reality and as a dream of equality, have always been with us; it's just that sometimes that fiery Amazon spirit is hidden from view or even suppressed.
- Adrienne Mayor
Play
Always
It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw, because there's going to be more to play with - more conflict, internally or in and around them - but it's probably the thing of finding the positive in there.
- Aidan Gillen
Like
Same Time
I'm not saying that being gay is what defines me, but at the same time, if you feel like you have to hide it, then it becomes what defines you. You keep it hidden, and the secret becomes you.
- Alan Ball
Going
Any
Messages hidden in the thickets of a story are the ones that burrow deepest because most of us don't realize that any burrowing is going on at all.
- Alex Tizon
Reveal
Other
Among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other, and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things.
- Alexander Grothendieck
Count
Perhaps
Hidden in a long text, there are perhaps three lines that count.
- Alexander Kluge
Romance
Agenda
There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.
- Alexander McQueen
Thoughts
Chain
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
- Alexander Pope
Mom
Gift
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
- Alice Walker
Level
Though
On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it.
- Alice Walker
Sometimes
Deceased
Sometimes the books most restrained about sex, even deeply scandalized by it, can whisper to us with the greatest hidden force. I am a huge admirer of the recently deceased, always underranked Evan S. Connell.
- Allan Gurganus
Explain
Figures
There was an email forwarded to me from a first-grade teacher, and she said she was teaching them civil rights for MLK weekend, and a little first-grader stood up, and he said, 'I can explain segregation,' and proceeded to explain all the scenes from 'Hidden Figures.' And I died because that's everything.
- Allison Schroeder
Practice
About
I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.
- Alvin Lee
Love
Everyone
I actually love shopping in vintage shops. What I do with the high street, I buy it, then keep it for a while and then wear it when everyone's not wearing it. So I do that: stock up, then keep it hidden!
- Amber Le Bon
Seed
Die
The most important in the history of nations and individuals was once the most trivial, and vice versa. The plebeian, who is called today the 'man in the street,' can never see and understand the significance of the hidden seed of things, which in time must develop or die.
- Ameen Rihani
Civility
1930s
While I began writing 'Rules of Civility' in 2006, the genesis of the book dates back to the early 1990s, when I happened upon a copy of 'Many Are Called,' the collection of portraits that Walker Evans took on the New York City subways in the late 1930s with a hidden camera.
- Amor Towles
Voice
Other
Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it tick and turn this way or that, and identifies them, like a signature, though it lurks far deeper than their style, or their voice or other telltale antics?
- Andre Aciman
Deep
About
A hidden nerve is what every writer is ultimately about. It's what all writers wish to uncover when writing about themselves in this age of the personal memoir. And yet it's also the first thing every writer learns to sidestep, to disguise, as though this nerve were a deep and shameful secret that needs to be swathed in many sheaths.
- Andre Aciman
Strength
Always
Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
- Andrei Sakharov
Beneath
Britain
In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children's literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the obvious cuteness.
- Andrew O'Hagan
Streets
Been
I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball.
- Andy Goldsworthy
Me
Dragons
Americans are hidden dragons to me.
- Ang Lee
Racism
Been
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
- Angela Davis
Reasons
Apply
I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply meaning to the hidden details.
- Anthony Browne
Like
Hints
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
- Anthony Hecht
How
Works
How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature!
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Explain
Whole
How little do we discover in comparison of those things which now are and forever will be hidden from our sight? The whole of which I am fully persuaded no one will ever be able to dive into, and to explain their causes and effects.
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Cruelty
Other
You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.
- Ariel Dorfman
Been
Shunned
There's so much in American history that has been hidden and shunned.
- Ashton Sanders
Dancing
Reveal
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
- Charles Baudelaire
Always
China
China, hidden and mysterious, has always interested me.
- Charles McCarry
Reveal
Angles
The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles.
- Charles Munch
Me
Depths
There are no hidden depths to me.
- Charles Saatchi
Away
Blogs
Fans write to us via our publisher and more than ever via the Internet, blogs and fan sites, and good writers should be actively seeking out that interaction. Gone are the days when writers are dead or hidden away in dusty attics; nowadays, you've got to get out there.
- Chris Riddell
Always
Some
There's always some kind of hidden logic.
- Christian Lacroix
Every Day
Teaching
In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
- Claude Bernard
Dangerous
Some
I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers.
- Cliff Stearns
Myself
Doing
I try to find my deepest, often hidden feelings about what's working and what's not. This is difficult because I do lie to myself without being aware that that's what I'm doing.
- Cynthia Kadohata
Have Fun
Old
I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.
- Cynthia Nixon
Paint
Remains
Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
- Dan Brown
Away
Skin
Horror is the future. And you cannot be afraid. You must push everything to the absolute limit, or else life will be boring. People will be boring. Horror is like a serpent: always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.
- Dario Argento
Hammer
Salem
I grew up on all sorts of horror - Hammer Horror and Vincent Price's 'Theatre Of Blood.' I loved the hidden, scary layers, but there wasn't that much around for youngsters in terms of horror books. I can remember reading Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot' and 'Cujo,' but I thought there should be more for teenaged horror fans.
- Darren Shan
Insurance
Burden
It puts the provider in a situation of looking for ways to have someone else pick up a piece of the cost. As a result, every customer who has insurance ends up paying a 'hidden premium.' It simply adds to the health care cost burden.
- Dave Obey
Asking
Sources
Take charge of hidden, sneaky sources of chronic inflammation that can trigger illness and disease by wearing comfortable shoes daily, getting an annual flu vaccine, and asking your doctor why you're not on a statin and baby aspirin if you're over the age of forty.
- David Agus
Everybody
Inquire
Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.
- David Guterson
Holy
Poetic
In the poetic tradition, the heart's affections are indeed holy, and if organizations are asking for people's hearts and minds, they are asking in a way for their holy and hidden affections at the same time.
- David Whyte
Which
Tries
Everything I do tries to do the same thing, which is to express things that are hard to express, hidden things.
- Jim Woodring
Go
Visiting
When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.
- Jo Nesbo
Dallas
Pretty
My home in Dallas is wonderful. I can walk everywhere. It's a pretty good hidden secret, Dallas. There are wonderful restaurants and a wonderful nightlife. It's just a beautiful city to be in.
- Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
Crowd
Took
These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd.
- Joe Henderson
Nature
Mind
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
- Johannes Kepler
Work
Behind
I don't display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home.
- John Cameron
Say
Hide
The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.
- John Galliano
Explain
Mostly
It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.
- John Muir
Change
Like
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
- John Steinbeck
Away
Generally
My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.
- John Updike
Artist
About
As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about packaging ideas that looked like they were crafted as artist ideas. In the distributed products, my artist credit was hidden inside the package of the artist or entertainment personality.
- John Van Hamersveld
Reach
Discover
Twentieth century man must boldly reach out... And purposefully strive to discover the hidden secrets of our universe.
- John Young
Sense Of Humor
It's how you define yourself. It's not Nirvana or Pearl Jam: it's, 'Do you watch 'Portlandia' or 'Amy Schumer'?' It relates to a specific sense of humor. And, 'Do you know the hidden gems?' Like, if you knew the Pixies in the '80s.
- Jonathan Krisel
Big
I Think
Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
Through
Veil
The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Love
Always
I love finding things. I love digging around in the dirt. It's part of my Virgo. It's like acting, really. You're always searching around for something and finding little hidden treasures.
- Julia Sawalha
Play
Explore
That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.
- Julie Kavner
Magic
Side
Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years, but it seems largely hidden from the world of commerce.
- Barry Schwartz
Distance
Other
Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.
- Barry Unsworth
Status
Never
I have never hidden my marital status.
- Barun Sobti
Alive
Sacrificing
I'd like to avoid the environmental apocalypse if I could. Zombies, robots - I don't know - I'd probably do alright hidden in the middle of the herd and sacrificing people to keep myself alive, but where you gonna hide when all the food is gone?
- Ben Peek
Beauty
Clearly
First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.
- Gustav Stickley
Love
Very
The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.
- Ben Whishaw
Thought
Worlds
Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.
- H. P. Lovecraft
Mountains
Very
In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And there's this strange thing: you're never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well.
- Hannah Kent
Find
Even
I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.
- Berry Gordy
Reports
Sharpened
The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.
- Bill Alexander
Lives
Stories
Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.
- Bill James
Comedy
Clear
I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.
- Bo Burnham
Better
Harmony
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
- Heraclitus
Find
Sort
I stay hidden. I'm sort of hard to find.
- Bob Ross
Learn
Aspects
A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
- Bob Woodward
Shame
Rather
In the 1980s, Vietnam emerged in our culture as a legitimate and compelling topic for discussion rather than something to be hidden in shame.
- Bobbie Ann Mason
Some
Beneath
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
- Herman Melville
Depth
Surface
Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Honor
Thy
Honor thy error as a hidden intention.
- Brian Eno
Some
Appliances
Computers and computing are all around us. Some computing is highly visible, like your laptop. But this is only part of a computing iceberg. A lot more lies hidden below the surface. We don't see and usually don't think about the computers inside appliances, cars, airplanes, cameras, smartphones, GPS navigators and games.
- Brian Kernighan
Flight
Excel
There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.
- Bruce Schneier
Game
Magic
The thing about 'Game of Thrones' is it doesn't pin too much of a focus on magic. It kind of paints it in the same way that mystical things are portrayed in our world, because you don't walk about Westeros and see wizards with staffs or magical wands. All the characters don't really believe in it. It's this mysterious hidden vein to Westeros.
- Isaac Hempstead Wright
Strength
Strong
We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.
- Isabel Allende
Strength
Strong
I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.
- Isabel Allende
Truth
Moon
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- Buddha
Big
Go
I don't have any hidden talents but if you dare me to do something I'll go after it big time.
- Izabel Goulart
Need
Texts
So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
- Caio Fonseca
Which
Built
To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
- J. M. G. Le Clezio
City
Secret
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Gun
Very
The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
- Jackson Katz
Middle Class
Very
With upper- and middle-class lawns, there's more hidden, whereas with working-class or poor lawns, there's more out to see. It just sits right out there. Very honest. Like the people.
- Carolyn Chute
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