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Quotes About Concealment

Win opened a leather-bound first-edition false front bookcase to reveal a refrigerator. He grabbed a Yoo-hoo chocolate drink and tossed it to Myron. Myron caught it, and reading the directions—"Shake It!"—did just that. Win opened the decanter and poured himself an exclusive cognac called, interestingly enough, The Last Drop. "I
~ Harlan Coben
Kat held back the sigh but allowed herself the eye roll.
~ Harlan Coben
Any video of the killer?" "I can't tell you more." "I would say, 'can't or won't,' but that's such a hoary cliché." She
~ Harlan Coben
Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around.
~ Emmanuelle Beart
Hiding behind a tougher outer image as a teenager feels cooler and safer compared to admitting, perhaps, that you're the very opposite.
~ Alex Lawther
Hiding my migraines on the set may have been my toughest challenge as an actor. There were times when the pain from migraine headaches was so severe that I literally had to crawl across my dressing room floor. But I couldn't let anyone know. If they thought I might slow production, I figured that would end my career.
~ Morgan Fairchild
When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'
~ Chuck Palahniuk
When I was 16, I knew I was gay. I loved a lot. But I lived as a straight guy, because there are people in my town who don't understand my story. I never told. I never wanted to show what was inside my heart.
~ Domenico Dolce
The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.
~ Alafair Burke
In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.
~ Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
Hide your gold, your faith and the reason of you journey.
~ Eduard Heine
Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and the leaf.
~ Rumi
Trees cover up a multitude of sins.
~ Bob Ross
Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?
~ Pablo Neruda
Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
~ Ice Cube
How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?
~ Curt Weldon
Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth
~ Leo Tolstoy
The truth hurts, but silence kills.
~ Mark Twain
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
People hide the truth because they're afraid.
~ Nicholas Sparks
People will tell you most of the story… and I've learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they're afraid.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
~ Alfred Nobel