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  • Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea of nature demands that the giver of life should die at the moment of giving.

    Sex   Ideas   Giving  
    Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Life of the Bee: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.97, 谷月社
  • My soul Is Naked. It wears The Transparent Garment Of Love.

    Soul   Naked   Garments  
  • Clear writing is universal. People talk about writing down to an audience or writing up to an audience; I think that's nonsense. If you write in a way that is clear, transparent, and elegant, it will reach everyone.

    Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. December, 2008.
  • The self identity of Man is transcultural, and thus cannot have any single point of reference. Pluralism is not synonymous with tolerance of a variety of opinions. Pluralism amounts to the recognition of the unthinkable, the absurd, and up to a limit, intolerable. Reality in itself does not need to be transparent intelligible.

    Reality   Men   Self  
  • Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I would hope is true for all adults, thought I know from bitter experience that such is not often the case. To act in a manner designed to catapult you into heaven would seem transparent to a god, any god,for if ones heart is not in allignment with the creator of that heaven, then... what is the point?

  • Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

    Life   Halos   Lamps  
    1919 'Modern Fiction'.
  • We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent. There can be no whitewash at the White House.

    Integrity   Real   White  
    Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.332, Best Books on
  • I am transparent An open book; There's no choice in the matter But the breath from my mind Is living air, And the notes from my heart Are what I share. Words weren't made for cowards.

    Book   Heart   Air  
    Song: Words Weren't Made for Cowards, Album: Warpaint
  • And these are your reasons, my lord?" "Do you think I have others?" said Lord Vetinari. "My motives, as ever, are entirely transparent." Hughnon reflected that 'entirely transparent' meant either that you could see right through them or that you couldn't see them at all.

    Thinking   Reason   Lord  
    Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Truth: (Discworld Novel 25)”, p.48, Random House
  • I refuse to eat a fried egg if the white is still runny or transparent. I really can't be doing it. I always have to flip it over.

    Eggs   White   Flip  
    Source: www.mirror.co.uk
  • I want a counter-terrorism regime that is proportionate, focused and transparent.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.

    Country   World   Turns  
    "Reinvigorating Greece is an Olympian task for prime minister Papandreou" by Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2010.
  • The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found.

    Moon   Two   Perfect  
    Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.226, McClelland & Stewart
  • The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transparent medium like glass or water, it gets slowed down. It no longer travels with the fundamental velocity of light c. And that's the way to think of the generation of mass.

    "Meet Peter Higgs". CERN Video, July 2004.
  • I want to be transparent, so I don't leave room for too much thinking.

    Source: news.spotify.com
  • All these cries of having "abolished slavery," of having "saved the country," of having "preserved the union," of establishing a "government of consent," and of "maintaining the national honor," are all gross, shameless, transparent cheats - so transparent that they ought to deceive no one.

    Lysander Spooner (1972). “Let's Abolish Government”, Ayer Company Pub
  • It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.

  • The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry.

    Light   White   Poetry  
    Herbert Spencer (1871). “Essays: Moral, Political and Aesthetic”, p.31
  • I wonder what a soul…a person's soul…would look like,' said Priscilla dreamily. 'Like that, I should think,' answered Anne, pointing to a radiance of sifted sunlight streaming through a birch tree. 'Only with shape and features of course. I like to fancy souls as being made of light. And some are all shot through with rosy stains and quivers…and some have a soft glitter like moonlight on the sea…and some are pale and transparent like mist at dawn.

    Thinking   Light   Sea  
    Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more”, p.332, e-artnow
  • One of the ways to make sure policies are more transparent and to help restore people's confidence in politicians... is to ensure renewal at the highest level of office.

    People   Office   Levels  
  • Most sculptors make the mistake", he said, "of thinking of eyes as form and they therefore make them as spherical surfaces. Eyes are not forms, they are transparent, and what one really sees is the light of the soul in them - and that is what I try to give them

    Mistake   Eye   Thinking  
  • She shook her head. She was so pale under the diffuse lamp-light that she looked almost transparent, as if Simon could have looked right through her. The way, he supposed, he always had.

    Light   Lamps   Way  
    Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1678, Simon and Schuster
  • In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

    Time   Lying   Philosophy  
  • Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.

    Writing   Should   Reader  
    "'Getting things right'". www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2008.
  • Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.

  • In India nearly everybody spoke metaphorically except the English who spoke bluntly and could make their most transparent lies look honest as a consequence; whereas any truth contained in these metaphorical rigmaroles was so deviously presented that it looked devious itself.

    Lying   India   Looks  
    Paul Scott (2011). “The Raj Quartet, Volume 2: The Day of the Scorpion”, p.102, University of Chicago Press
  • In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on the other. The figures and the background were unrelated, and yet the figures, transparent and intangible, and the background, dim in the gathering darkness, melted into a sort of symbolic world not of this world. Particularly when a light out in the mountains shone in the center of the girl's face, Shimamura felt his chest rise at the inexpressible beauty of it.

    Girl   Mirrors   Light  
    "Snow Country". Book by Yasunari Kawabata, 1948.
  • In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.

    Honesty   Heart   Dark  
    "The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration: Old Wisdom for a New World". Book by Vera Nazarian, 2010.
  • I think they [Hillary and Bill Clinton] have been - they have shown over and over again that they're willing to be transparent and that they have gone beyond the letter of the law, to show that they're trying to make sure there are bright red, green, purple lines that will separate them from any type of conflict.

    Thinking   Purple   Law  
    "'This Week' Transcript: Gov. Chris Christie and DNC Chair Donna Brazile". abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.
  • The other great innovation are things like Transparent or One Mississippi on Amazon, Master of None on Netflix, and those half-hours. It's a lot easier to watch a load of those because it's far more palatable to go, "You know, I'm just going to do one more of these."

    Source: collider.com
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