Quotes About Revealing

Most revealing is how the letter ends—with Jack portraying himself and Fanny as common victims of Pierpont.

Similarity breeds attraction. When you delay revealing your similarity, or let them discover it, it has much more punch.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Sport doesn't build character, it shows it.

Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.

Makeup peeled off her like plaster from an old Moscow building.

What would be my power over you, when revealing my secrets towards you, especially when discovering yours?

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.

Winning teaches you nothing," said Tunny. "You see what a man really is when he loses.

I am, to be sure, afraid that if you knew me that you wouldn't love me. But this must be faced…I fear it in any relationship. Thus I am perhaps afraid to reveal facts about things…or to say too much for fear if I make too much noise you'll drift away, pull down the shade of your ivory tower…and after that. Afraid, I guess, that I'll loose you…I keep losing people.

I'm very protective of how much I let people see.

Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching.

One of the least appealing aspects of modern presidential candidates is that, to avoid saying anything that might prove to be an embarrassing, costly blunder, they cling to a rigid set of talking points that reveal as little as possible about what they really think and who they really are.

I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.

Quando si ride ci si lascia andare, si è nudi, ci si scopre. Quando uno ride, vedi un po' la sua anima. E poi quando si ride ci si muove, ci si scuote, come un albero, e si lascia per terra le cose che gli altri possono vedere e magari cogliere. Gli avari e coloro che non hanno niente da offrire, infatti, non ridono.

What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible.... Be very chary of revealing your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged. Be even more careful of sharing your secrets lest you find yourself a puppet dancing on someone else's strings.

maybe writing doesn't require sacrifice. Maybe it's a gift to experience emotions through our brushes, ink, and paper. I wrote out sorrow, fear, and hate. You wrote desire, joy, and love. We paid a heavy price for speaking our minds, for revealing our hearts, for trying to create, but it was worth it, wasn't it, daughter?

It was a box of tissues.

Io sono una strega e, un giorno, il mio travestimento cadrà e voi mi vedrete quale sono realmente: vecchia, brutta, cattiva e perduta. Guardatevi da me, finché siete in tempo. Vi ho avvertito. Ora amatemi a vostro rischio e pericolo.

Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader's eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.

You don't know what people are really like until they're under a lot of stress.

Success builds character, failure reveals it.

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.