Quotes About Concealment

Pack all of your desires away, lock them up, and throw out the key.

What was one more skeleton in an already crowded closet?

And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there.

You can disappear here without knowing it.

Later, as she's putting the dress back on, I notice a bruise on the side of her torso that I had'nt seen before. Who did that to you I ask. Oh that She says? You did

And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel my flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense that our lifestyles are probably comparable - I simply am not there.

point is that we have some ugly skeletons in our closet that we don't acknowledge

Do you know what they say about the deep, deep snow?" "What?" "It hides every secret. It covers every sin.

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

We are animals, yet are expected to be so much more. Although honor requires us to make altruistic decisions, even acting for the benefit of other people keeps coming back to self-interest, no matter how much one attempts to conceal it.

The successful executive is like a poker player, either concealing his emotions or showing false ones, so that others cannot use them against him. —AURELIUS VENPORT, The Legacy of Business

The haughty do but build castle walls behind which they try to hide their doubts and fears.

Humans are survivors. They do things for themselves and then attempt to conceal their motivations through elaborate subterfuges. Gift-giving is a prime example of behavior that is secretly selfish. -Erasmus

Consider human life: We are animals, yet are expected to be so much more. Although honor requires us to make altruistic decisions, even acting for the benefit of other people keeps coming back to self interest, no matter how much one attempts to conceal it. —REVEREND MOTHER RAQUELLA BERTO-ANIRUL

Traditionally, Guild Navigators masked their appearance, keeping themselves hidden in thick clouds of spice gas. It was generally believed that the process of becoming a Navigator transformed a person into something other than human, something more evolved. The Guild said nothing to confirm or deny the speculations.

Sometimes it is easier when you can't see your hands or your arms. Sometimes it's easier when you don't try. Because it's too hard to talk when you are trying . . too hard to say what you feel inside.

My dad believes that bad disguises itself - that danger hides. I think it's the opposite. The truly horrible things about the world are always reaching out for you.

Most of us think we can hide our weaknesses from the world, and sometimes, we're right. But only if we're very very strong.

What we do not wish to remember we sometimes hide. That which we hide long enough is sometimes forgotten altogether, even if it never forgets itself.

Mediocrity is the best camouflage known to man.

As a small child I had discovered that only two places are available to those who wish to remain concealed. The choices are to be a nonentity or an exception. You either disappear into a plebeian background or move forward to where most others fear to follow.

A firm's income statement may be likened to a bikini—what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.

This was one of those situations in which the whole is not enough. Perhaps because there were other wholes, or because the whole made up by the speaker and his personal world rotates like a planet, and the combined effect of rotation and orbital movement is to keep certain sides of certain planets permanently hidden.

All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all of the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known.