Quotes About Concealment

There are people like that in the world—people with something wrong with them that can be disguised but won't be denied, and which dominates them.

merely bringing up facts that were well known in the scientific community, but perhaps best not discussed in public. A Papua New Guinea language has a term for this, Mokita. It means 'truth that we all know, but agree not to talk about.

The essence of control is to remain hidden from view, is it not?

The priest I didn't talk to at all, because I didn't want to have to hide his body afterward.

Ce n'est pas un des miens non plus, a dit Bancroft un peu trop vite. J'ai choisi cet exemple au hasard. Il y a des choses, des désirs en chacun de nous qu'il vaut mieux étouffer. Ou au moins, qu'il est impossible d'exprimer dans un contexte civilisé.

The priest I didn't talk to at all, because I didn't want to have to hide his body afterwards.

The essence of control is to remain hidden from view

Sometimes I have this feeling," Walter said, "that he operates on the philosophy that 'what Walter doesn't know won't hurt him.

What happened to the truth is not recorded.

Dovrebbe apparirci ovvio come il tempo per noi non agisca affatto da fissativo, ma piuttosto da solvente. Solo che credere questo non conviene, non serve; non aiuta a tirare avanti; perciò fingiamo di non saperlo.

From what I did and what I said Let them not seek to find who I was

Lies are so complicated, she thought. And not for the first time.

He composed himself inwardly. Sparing the world his awkwardness, hiding vulnerability. Preserving his pride.

Appearances and manners often cloak a black soul.

Her computer was still in the bag she was carrying, so it was safe. She rushed to her closet to check the cubby where she hid her backup drive. It was exactly where she'd left it.

But we never say, the pool. Because the pool is ours and ours alone. It's my own secret Valhalla.

Up there I'm just passing as me.

There's a difference between being afraid and letting people see that you are

For Cixi, what the Viceroy as done was best left unsaid.

I do not want any man to see me suffer.

Clinging to one's outward appearance interferes with living.

Lost in the crowd, it's all right to pretend for a moment to be no one.

I want to spy on all sorts of places, and the box is a portable hole that occurred to me under the circumstances, it being impossible to punch holes throughout the world.

I had a terribly bad aftertaste. Just making my face look as if it were new, with my memories and my habits unchanged, was quite like dipping up water with a bottomless dipper. Since I had put a mask over my face, I needed one that would fit my heart. If possible, I wanted to be so perfect in my inventions and my acting as to be undetectable even by a lie detector.