Quotes About Concealed

When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left.

Secret and terrible things are hidden everywhere in this world.

His frustrations are concealed, his raw lust for colonies moderated by the knowledge that he must depend on subterfuge and flattery.

A great ox stands on my tongue.

I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.

Sometimes you could see the scars and sometimes you couldn't. But everybody had them.

They turned and found themselves facing a bullet head on an ICBM body lumpily stuffed into a black shirt and a brown suit. It was as though King Kong were making a break for it, hoping to smuggle himself back to his island disguised as a human being.

She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see.

Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.

just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing.

It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface.

The worst side effects are the ones we don't see.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. —OSCAR WILDE

I was thinking. What if the world was like one of those Russian nesting dolls? What if we only saw one surface of it, the outside, but there was all kinds of other stuff going on, too? All the time. Underneath. But we just don't see it, even if we're part of it? Even if we're in it? And what if you had a chance to see a different layer, like flipping a channel or something? Would you want to look? Even if what you saw looked like hell? Or worse?

Amongst the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest?

Buzz crouched between her feet and scrutinised as much as he could see of her perilous interior to find out if all was in order and there were no concealed fangs or guillotines inside her to ruin him.

Reality is merely one-tenth visible section of the iceberg that one sees above the surface of the ocean - art remaining nine-tenths of it that lies below the surface. That is why it is more near Truth than Reality itself. Art does not merely reflect Reality - it enlarges it.

Giant squid aren't rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sperm whales, it's thought that there are actually millions of them in the ocean, and yet, we haven't seen them.

Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.

The best thing about being a film producer is I get to spend 99 per cent of my time behind the scenes.

As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.