Quotes About Veil

There is a shadow on every page.

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How can any child resist the tooth fair? That single shining example of selfless generosity in this slimy veil of greed. When I was broke, I pulled out my brother's teeth. Naturally, it was too good to last. Just one more nonrenewable resource on a diminishing planet.

Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.

In this set of prescriptions, the beard enjoys a privileged position. It is indeed the symbol of virility, just as the veil is the symbol of feminity. But whereas the veil, as is normal, must conceal femi­ninity, the beard is intended on the contrary to draw attention to itself and in some sense exhibit virility. The beard is a form of masculinity. There is therefore a canonical duty to wear a beard.

Fireworks in the background like an incongruous soundtrack, either celebratory or ominous, a veil of smoke behind a neighbor's house, the air askew with booms.

Ultimate truth is very simple and easy to assimilate, but evil hands try hard to veil it with clouds of suspicions, they often hide in media markets.

She had to possess the courage to enter, through language, states which most people deny or veil with silence.

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

Mi decisión es una máscara y, tras ella, reina el desorden, el apeiron .

Like my heart's pain that has long missed its meaning, the sun's rays robed in dark hide themselves under the ground. Like my heart's pain at love's sudden touch, they change their veil at the spring's call and come out in the carnival of colors, in flowers and leaves.

La sombra, cubierta por un velo, sigue a la luz en secreta mansedumbre, con pasos silenciosos de amor.

And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may be an engineer or a diplomat or a doctor. Or she may be an unbelievable babe with bleached hair down to her waist.

He seemed to hasten the retreat of departing light by his very presence; the setting sun dipped sharply, as though fleeing before our nigger; a black mist emanated from him; a subtle and dismal influence; a something cold and gloomy that floated out and settled on all the faces like a mourning veil. The circle broke up. The joy of laughter died on stiffened lips.

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We must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light.

veil that hides the future from us is woven by an angel of mercy. Unfortunately, there's no veil that can shield us from our past. It's filled with ghosts. The ghosts of loved ones. The ghosts of enemies. They're with us always. They're here with us now.

The night that hides things from us.

In our humanness we can't handle all His holiness; so God, in mercy, raises the veil and dwells in mystery.

I cannot forget that I have forgotten. I may have used the veil so successfully that I have made my performance believable to myself.

The issue here is not whether self-veiling can be avoided, or even should be avoided. Indeed, no finite play is possible without it. The issue is whether we are ever willing to drop the veil and openly acknowledge, if only to ourselves, that we have freely chosen to face the world through a mask.

The issue is whether we are ever willing to drop the veil and openly acknowledge, if only to ourselves, that we have freely chosen to face the world through a mask.

Si tenemos un alma lo bastante fuerte, podemos arrancarnos el velo y contemplar cara a cara la desnuda y terrible belleza; dejar que el dios nos consuma, nos devore, nos quiebre los huesos. Y luego nos escupa renacidos.

enough to show the black