Quotes About Conceal

Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal.

42. And mix not truth with falsehood, nor conceal the truth [i.e. Muhammad Peace be upon him is Allaah's Messenger and his qualities are written in your Scriptures, the Tauraat (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel)] while you know (the truth) .

The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.

Nowhere do the words "slave" or "slavery" appear in the final document. "What will be said of this new principle of founding a right to govern Freemen on a power derived from slaves," Pennsylvania's John Dickinson wondered—correctly, as it would turn out. He predicted: "The omitting the Word will be regarded as an Endeavour to conceal a principle of which we are ashamed."49

Hard to hide a weapon after you've shot yourself in the head.

He wanted to leave his mom and her unseeing eyes. He was the invisible boy looking for the place where no one could find him, where he did not have to feel invisible anymore.

I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.

Art silent? But there is no use of silence in misfortunes; for the heart which desires to hear all things, is found eager also in the case of ills. It is not indeed right, my father, to conceal thy misfortunes from friends, and even more than friends.

Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. The bored haughty face that she turned to the world concealed something- most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning

Then it was something more. I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. The bored haughty face that she turned to the world concealed something—most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning—and

Toen ik mij wilde ontmaskeren Zat het masker vast aan mijn gezicht.

I hide behind the door, so that Reality won't see me when it enters.

The snow has thrown a crumpled cloth over the table of all things.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?

I could do as my father did: that is, lift my eyes and meet her gaze and let nothing of what I was thinking show in my face.

You gotta love New Englanders. We can take anything we don't want to face, whitewash it resiliently into a faint echo of itself, then simply lock it away.

I'm trying to make myself invisible. That's an odd thing to attempt.

Miles growled, and sat with his back to it. He quickly slid into the role of referee, controlling the flow of ideas while concealing his own dearth of hard factual information. He folded his arms, and said "Um," and "Hm," but only very occasionally "God help us," because it caused Elena to choke.

Story has a mind of its own and tells things sometimes it might have preferred us not to know. Stories operate like dreams; both veil what is to be uncovered, neither is capable of a coverup [Our Dream of the Good God, Out of the Garden ].

My mother always tells me, 'Nathan, you're very much a geek, but your strength is that you look mainstream. So no one can tell just by looking at you.' I think this is true.

Success hides problems...you don't need to address problems.