#reveals

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs. ↗

— David Friedman

#i #itself #me #part #person

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#fiction #obscures #reality #reveals #truths

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#assignment #develops #every #great #increasingly

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#reveals #travel #unknown #you #yourself

I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#change #firsthand #i #president #reveals

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#astonishing #continue #epic #hears #his

The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#already #check #claim #competition #degree

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other. ↗

— Edward Hall

#desire #dominate #each #human #human nature

When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor. ↗

— Cedric Hardwicke

#audience #dramatist #fine #not talking #reveals

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#brings #conversation #dearly #essentials #how