Quotes About Concealment

America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.

Our battles are first won or lost in the secret places of our will in God's presence, never in full view of the world.

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!

That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be

At five minutes to eleven on the morning named he was at the station, a false beard and spectacles shielding his identity from the public eye. If you had asked him he would have said that he was a Scotch business man. As a matter a fact, he looked far more like a motor-car coming through a haystack.

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

Muchas veces una mentira es una verdad mal contada, pero en este caso la gran mentira escondía las verdades.

The Agency's job is keeping secrets. You could ask about the weather, and they would neither confirm or deny that there IS weather.

There is a hierarchy, and these are the rules in my family: If you don't talk about a thing, it's not a problem. If you hide how deeply something hurt you, it didn't happen. If you pretend not to notice how deeply you hurt someone else, you don't have to feel bad about it.

when we live behind a wall, our inner darkness cannot be penetrated by the light that is in the world. In fact, all we can see "out there" is darkness, not realizing how much of it is of our own making! As a young man, the wall allowed me to cast my own darkness on others while remaining blissfully ignorant of how they saw me.

Il n'y avait que dans ses compositions qu'on découvrait la complexité et la délicatesse du monde qui était caché sous ce visage et derrière les gestes rares et rigides.

You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.

Somehow if she'd know the worst parts, she couldn't have gone on being a haven for him...Men said they didn't tell their women about France because they didn't want to worry them. but it was more than that. He needed her ignorance to hide in. Yet, at the same time, he wanted to know and be known as deeply as possible. And the two desires were irreconcilable.

There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language.

Wizards are a secretive lot.

Anna stabbed her with the dagger she'd concealed in Tom's jacket. Under the ribs and through the heart--just like her favorite forensic TV show had taught her.

If I were a vampire, I think I'd only wear black or dark brown—to hide the stains.

Then we'd be living a lie," Padmé told him gently. "And one we couldn't keep

You can't put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.

Truth doesn't stay hidden. Neither do secrets. One day, to a praying heart, they disclose themselves.

and they don't have to know about a lot of things that ordinary mortals just don't have to know about!

Imagination thrives on mystery

I knew I was lucky to go undetected and I was afraid my luck would run out. I feared that I would be caught, but the allure of a warm body, one that would not leave at the end of the night, stayed with me, and I constantly thought about killing again.

she said and gives me this look you'd think she was dying for a shite but was holding it in.