Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacques Maritain

Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.

Margaret Atwood

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

Elizabeth Bowen

...though one can be callous in Ireland one cannot be wholly opaque or material. An unearthly disturbance works in the spirit; reason can never reconcile one to life; nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.

Suzanne Fields

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.