Quotes About Concealed

There are beauties that are more palpable and explicable, and there are hidden and secret beauties… These hidden beauties are commonly by far the greatest, because the more complex a beauty is, the more hidden it is.

The arrows of death fly unseen at noon-day; the sharpest sight cannot discern them.

A lie is an excuse guarded.

In their natural habitats some of these species may be, like the golden-fronted bowerbird, easy to locate and observe but may nevertheless trick the biologist into treating them as "common" when they are really just "obvious," an important distinction.

But you can't see me.

Eccentricity is one of those English traits that looks like frailty but masks a concealed strength; individuality disguised as oddity.

I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all. It was another thing that made me seem like a dick - my stomach could be all oiled eels, and you would get nothing from my face and less from my words. It was a constant problem: too much control or no control at all.

into trouble because what he keeps hidden under his skirt has a mind of its own.

the one true secret of the universe: there is always a darker shadow lurking beyond the one whose face you can see.

and the Creole houses were invisible behind the rain.

It is the bullet you don't hear that gets you.

I've sometimes wondered whether human beings are like the universe itself, where 95 percent of what surrounds us is dark matter, and cannot be seen. The only way black holes can be detected is by the behavior of what's around them—light and matter being distorted by immense forces within the collapsing star. Have I seen and yet not seen certain events that hint at deep

It's easy to forget that inside her cool and placid exterior is a human being. Not nice to think, I

With my pale eyes concealed behind dark sunglasses, I stared through the window and tried to lose myself in the spectacular view.

It's unreasonable and unjustified, of course, but it's always there, hiding in the long shadow thrown by envy.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

It is an odd thing about newspapers that they live by exposure, yet they keep their own worlds concealed.

It's always the crocodile you don't see you have to worry about.

But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's the ones you don't see.

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.

The itinerary of most antiquities from their source - tomb, temple, quarry - to the shelves of museums or private collectors is murky and often purposely concealed.

I've always got a sweet tooth. I have chocolate hidden in places that nobody knows about.

According to quantum mechanics, what we can observe about the world is only a tiny subset of what actually exists.

Something had been buried that was not yet dead.