#obscure

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#day #deal #effort #every #every day

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#glass #like #obscure #vision #words

I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles. ↗

— Bjork

#could #having #i #mind #nerd

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water. ↗

— James Buchan

#almost #call #century #commodity #existence

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#away #because #change #dream #duties

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#intense #obscures #often #too #truth

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#infinity #nature #obscure #permanent #shares

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#brief #i #obscure #strive

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God. ↗