Pastoral Resources

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Obscurity is the realm of error.

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity.

I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression.

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.