Quotes About Concealment

I am convinced none of us shows the world a true face. We keep that safely tucked away.

He was likely the only one who realized there was a will of iron under the porcelain.

There are two classes of people who hide themselves: the criminal who flees punishment, and the saint who through humility wishes to remain unknown.

The greatest things often lie concealed in the most insignificant, as in a mustard seed, or in the tiny trickle which is the beginning of a mighty river.

8th Juror: Did you ever see a woman who had to wear glasses and didn't want to because she thinks they spoil her looks? 6th Juror: My wife. Listen, I'm telling ya, as soon as we walk outa the house... 8th Juror: Maybe the district attorney didn't know either. 6th Juror: Yeah, that's what I was just gonna say. 3rd Juror: Ok. She had marks on her nose. I'm givin' ya that. From glasses. Right? She never worn 'em out of the house so people think'd she was gorgeous.

To live well, one must live unseen.

to live well you must live unseen

Imitation becomes intensified at the heart of the hostility, but the rivals do all they can to conceal from each other and from themselves the cause of this intensification. Unfortunately, concealment doesn't work. In imitating my rival's desire I give him the impression that he has good reasons to desire what he desires, to possess what he possesses, and so the intensity of his desire keeps increasing.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.

We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all.

Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible.

Only last week, the Bureau announced that one of those fugitive girls might be "feigning pregnancy." It struck me as a strange idea of what constitutes disguise. Whiskers, I would have thought, yes. Sunglasses even, a wig; but pregnancy, no. Jim says I misunderstood what the Bureau meant. The "feigned pregnancy" was considered, not as a disguise, but as a means of getting people not to shoot. I don't know.

He who hid well, lived well.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well....

Y'all carried secrets because that's what I taught you, but secrets . . . just . . . fester

Wolfe fluttered a hand. "It was distasteful to me, having to offer to take the money direct from you instead of through Mr. Helmar, but I felt you merited that consideration. I'm glad you contemn it as blackmail, since I like to pretend that I earn at least a fraction of what I collect; but the offer stands until ten in the morning, should you decide that you prefer it to this hide-and-seek.

the Anglo-Saxon theory of the treatment of emotions and desserts: freeze them and hide them in your belly. She

She saw a roach pass by her foot, and she instantly lifted it up and brought it down on the roach. She didn't want anyone to see her shame. Not even roaches.

Some spit fire out of their mouths and others juggled balls or pins, their faces painted to look like clowns. Juana wondered if they did that to hide their real faces and not feel ashamed.

Narrar es jugar al póquer con un rival que puede mirarte las cartas.

que nadie sepa que el niño interior no es la inocencia que guardamos como un cofre sino la orfandad que negamos como un crimen.

My eyebrows went past my hairline. In fact, I have not located them since. I think they are hiding behind my ears.

I know you are laughing in your sleeve.

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.