Quotes About Concealment

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

I hate it. I resent it. I refuse to tell anybody that I am a Medal of Honor recipient. I hate it.

We're like Iraq. We're hiding missiles. We've got two missiles in reserve.

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.

I did sing in a choir for a while, but if anybody was sick, I always whispered my songs to make sure nobody could pick out my voice.

Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

A sight game is that I am hurt, but I aim to make you believe I am not even hurt, and with this confidence appearing on my face, I don't panic, otherwise your opponent will know that you are hurt. That's the whole art game in boxing.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

One of the great things about the Fifties is there are so many secrets - people who've come back from the war and done these terrible things that they don't want to think about, or can't say what they did because they signed the Official Secrets Act.

There's a degree of deception in silence.

I continued to protect him with my silence.

When federal agents and prosecutors quietly open a criminal investigation, we are not concealing anything; we are simply following the longstanding policy that we refrain from publicizing non-public information. In that context, silence is not concealment.

With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner.

Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.

El-Masri lies under gravel and shingle, with no part of him visible aboveground except his left hand

So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like twin orbiting stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.

Instead of learning the rules, she'd learned to disappear.

I hid the fold of paper in my bra, where I knew it would remain undisturbed.

People think they know what you're feeling. What you must be feeling. And because it's easier not to expose yourself, what you're truly feeling, you don't disabuse them. You go through the motions for them.

I have one mind for the master to see. I have another mind for what I know is me.

I spoke the truth to my husband, but not all the truth.

No," I said, too quickly. I had an outstanding talent for committing deceit, but none for hiding it.

For what it's worth, charting one's passion in a small daybook kept hidden in a hatbox inside a wardrobe does not subdue passion in the least.