Unseen Quotations

All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.

If you're a photographer, they give you a camera. If you're a writer, they give you a typewriter. If you're an umpire, they give you an unseen object and they call it a strike zone, and nobody seems to agree with you no matter what you call.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

Love comes unseen; we only see it go.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?

Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.

By fairy hands their knell is rung; / By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.

I firmly believe in prayer. It is possible to reach out and tap the unseen power which gives strength and anchor in time of need.

I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.

We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's birth canal, we begin to attract entire colonies of bacteria. By the time a child can crawl, he has been blanketed by an enormous, unseen cloud of microorganisms - a hundred trillion or more.

One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole world, seen and unseen, go to the making up of every human being?

Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to the activity of the astral body and its reaction on the physical; their ever-increasing frequency is merely the result of its evolution among educated people.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

unseen strength. New Yorkers came together in a way that no one imagined New Yorkers could or would. The generosity and compassion spread around the country and the world.

We are promoting the opportunity for healthy living in a manner and scale unseen before.

My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.

We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen.

A heart of faith is anchored in the unseen

The outcome of your Greater Serbian hegemonic policy is the unseen suffering of the people of this unfortunate country,

Security is especially relevant for government vendors. Governments are saying they'd rather use open-source technology because there aren't any unseen open doors into the system. But it's not only that. Linux offers better performance, more stability, and a lower cost. It's a threat to Microsoft, and there's no turning back.

She felt again that small shiver that occurred to her when events hinted at a destiny being played out, of unseen forces intervening.

Modern medicine uses imaging 'windows' such as magnetic resonance imaging scanners to bring into view otherwise unseen vital information that skilled physicians can use for the benefit of their patients.

If we get a normal winter, we'll probably have enough inventories, but if we get a very harsh winter, inventories could collapse to unseen levels. The oil market would be very jittery with any supply disruptions.

I am a sacrifice to my True Guru, who has led me to see my unseen Lord.

Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many areas, the main weapon in the struggle against the forces of evil.

Kind words, kind looks, kind acts and warm handshakes, these are means of grace when men in trouble are fighting their unseen battles

Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves; First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire and larger limbs assume; Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin and feet and wing.

Many girls intentionally perpetrate acts of aggression that go unseen by parents and teachers. Because they are so skilled at being subtle, girls can communicate a thousand words without saying anything. By rolling their eyes or turning their back on another girl, they can shut that other person out without being noticed by anyone else - even a concerned parent or teacher.

Marine mammals are providing early clues of our unseen impact on the sea.

That's the insurgent strategy, this pervasive insecurity. You can't fight against an unseen enemy.

We put on 17 witnesses. We put on 15 people who had seen Nina's injuries over the years. Some had seen her being hit, some of them heard screams coming from the house late at night begging that an unseen someone inside the house not do this, or stop doing that, and some had occasionally heard gun shots coming from inside the house.

The problem was, Katrina was on television 24 hours a day. It was in every paper. The homeless problem is kind of an unseen problem. People don't commonly bump into homeless people. They don't see the problem.

Nothing glows brighter than the heart awakened to the unseen light of love that lives within it.

We worked so hard and Gary Cochrane and Gordon Moffat got through a lot of unseen work in the middle of the park.

So I suppose I do not know how he really looked, and, in fact, I suppose I shall never know, now, for he was plainly an object created in the mode of fantasy. His image was already present somewhere in my head and I was seeking to discover it in actuality, looking at every face I met in case it was the right face - that is, the face which corresponded to my notion of the unseen face of the one I should love, a face created parthenogeneticallyby the rage to love which consumed me.

We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.

Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

I like mainly to be invisible, to sort of drift around unseen in the world.

There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.

When my father reached the age of fourteen or fifteen, he heard the unseen horizon's call, and felt an urge to seek greater goals.

This ring may be the telltale sign of an unseen belt of bodies a few feet to a few miles in size.

Be sure to pick up any debris left over from the winter. This may include fallen limbs, leaves and litter that went unseen under the snow.

The sea being so deep and so large, I'm sure other mysteries lurk out there, unseen and unsolved.

The size of the outlook revision, unseen in recent years, was a big surprise. Profit margins are dropping.

Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.

Sacraments, like the Incarnation itself, constitute physical points at which the eternal touches time, or the unseen touches the seen, or grace touches nature. It is the Gnostics and Manicheans who want a purely disembodied religion.

The Unseen and Inscrutable Lord is permeating and pervading everywhere. He cannot be obtained by any effort.

It is wholly unhealthy for us as a Parliament to give this government unseen powers over the citizen and over the way in which he conducts his or her life.

In the life of the Indian there was only one inevitable duty, - the duty of prayer - the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal.

We should daily feel a deeper union with Life, a greater sense of that Indwelling God - the God of the seen and of the unseen - within us.

The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.

Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.

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

Let the unseen days be. Today is more than enough.

Sin is a basilisk whose eyes are full of venom. If the eye of thy soul see her first, it reflects her own poison and kills her; if she see thy soul, unseen, or seen too late, with her poison, she kills thee: since therefore thou canst not escape thy sin, let not thy sin escape thy observation.

I feel I cannot touch humanity, even in thought, it is abhorrent to me. But a work of art is an act of faith, as Michael Angelo says, and one goes on writing, to the unseen witnesses.

Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.

The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.

I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.

A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.

To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.

The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi.

Good style, to me, is unseen style.

All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.

To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than a universe. It includes the seen as well as the unseen, the possible as well as the actual, Nature and Nature's God, mind and matter. I am lost in admiration of the effulgent blaze of ideas it calls forth.

The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path and now it beckoned to him once more and a new adventure was about to be opened to him.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

These films are a nice enhancement to what we usually do, which is to screen movies that would otherwise go unseen in the Lehigh Valley.

The EPA and ADEQ are serious about enforcing underground tank regulations. Leak prevention is critical. Unseen leaks can pollute precious groundwater supplies-- a vital resource in Arizona.

The Guru has shown me the unseen Mansion of the True Lord. His Mansion is eternal and unchanging; it is not a mere reflection of Maya.

For everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words.

The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.

And could you see when they shall become terrified, but (then) there shall be no escape and they shall be seized upon from a near place / And they shall say: We believe in it. And how shall the attaining (of faith) be possible to them from a distant place? / And they disbelieved in it before, and they utter conjectures with regard to the unseen from a distant place.

There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.

Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.

The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.

All habits gather by unseen degrees.

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.

Time washes clean, love's wounds unseen.

I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.

The traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude.

It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.

Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it…

And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.

New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts.

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen