Quotes About Revealing

I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.

It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.

Indeed, one of the gifts of genderqueer family making—and animal loving—is the revelation of caretaking as detachable from—and attachable to—any gender, any sentient being.

Each one of us is the custodian of an inner world that we carry around with us. Now, other people can glimpse it from [its outer expressions]. But no one but you knows what your inner world is actually like, and no one can force you to reveal it until you actually tell them about it. That's the whole mystery of writing and language and expression — that when you do say it, what others hear and what you intend and know are often totally different kinds of things.

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

He felt a desire to open his body for her inspection, so that she could see all the hidden things in him, even the things he did not know were there.

Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

The fact was, I had just heard her laugh. And her laugh at once suggested the rosy flesh, the fragrant portals between which it had just made its way, seeming also, as strong, sensual and revealing as the scent of geraniums, to carry with it some microscopic particles of their substance, irritant and secret.

Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones.

Once again I glimpsed the way in which departure ripped the veil from ordinary life, revealing things that were normally kept hidden.

Reality is a puzzle revealing itself one portion at a time, always where the deepest shroud falls. Wanting to piece the clues together, you are only losing yourself in the maze.

The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias.

War strips away the thin veneer applied slap-dash by the institutions of society and shows Man for exactly what he is.

Expositors take away the speech of their familiars, among other things, so they can't reveal any secrets. It goes back to the Hierarchs." Cohort Leader Ashem frowned. "But there's no point to that. She talks in sign." Ashem was too naive for this world if she thought people were only cruel when there was a point to it.

You only saw the side of people that they wanted you to show, learnt the details of their lives they were willing to reveal. Everyone kept secrets. - Pg. 222

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.

It is tantalising, to be this close to revealing your own truth, like holding a bird you are about to set free.

Call me Mac," he said. Mackadocious is more like it. "For the next month, I will be your writing instructor..." Lip Macking Good. "It was Alfred, Lord Tennyson, who said, 'Words, like Nature, half reveal and half conceal the Soul within...'" Big Mac Attack. "Here, in the next five weeks, I hope you do more revealing than concealing..." Oh, I'll reveal more than that if you want me to, Mac Daddy.

The chatterer reveals every corner of his shallow mind.

When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

Tous les hommes sont semblables par les paroles,ce n'est que les actions qui les découvrent différents