Quotes About Camouflage

Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies.

Hide in the mirror. No one will look for you there.

It's the angle. You can't see me from where you're standing.

That mask of Wilder's

but I managed to masquerade as a person having a good time.

Florida's the perfect camouflage," said Serge. "Up in Middle America, even one of our low-profile whack jobs would stick out like Pamela Anderson bronco-riding a UFO.

America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.

I'm allergic to a lot of fruit and veg, but if I hide them in a drink, somehow my body doesn't notice.

It's in the nature of defence that you rarely notice it.

I really do miss being able to go through life a little less noticed.

Then why does every sentence beginning 'We need to talk' end in disaster? Our whole evolutionary history has been about trying to stop information from getting communicated—camouflage, protective coloration, that ink that squids squirt, encrypted passwords, corporate secrets, lying. Especially lying. If people really wanted to communicate, they'd tell the truth, but they don't.

Oh, it'll definitely fool the Germans, Cess said. There's no clearer proof that there's an army in the area than beer bottles and used condoms.

There are other good guys. You said so. Yes. So where are they? They're hiding. Who are they hiding from? From each other.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Where do you hide a leaf? In a forest.

You're comin' with me, you gotta be invisible. You walk by a hatch and you see the enemy, you become the hatch.

this point I could not show myself, of course, or all would

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

Perhaps you are one of us too, investigating your life and thinking about the world, always feeling native to nowhere. We put on disguises sometimes, to pose as people we are not, to hide, or to blend in, or just to see what will happen, hoping that our secrets will never be found out.

When someone is in disguise, and the disguise is not very good, one can describe it as a transparent disguise. This does not mean that the person is wearing plastic wrap or glass or anything else transparent. It merely means that people can see through his disguise - that is, the disguise doesn't fool them for a minute.

There is a lizard called the chameleon that, as you probably know, can change color instantly to blend into its surroundings. Besides being slimy and clod-blooded, Captain Sham resembled the chameleon in that he was chameleonic, a word means 'able to blend in with any situation.

Varnish and gilding hide many stains.

Your camouflage and your world is created by conscious focusing and unconscious concentration. Only by turning your head away for a moment can you see what is beneath the seemingly solid pattern. By plunging into our ocean of value climate you can dive beneath your camouflage system and look up to see it, relatively foundationless, floating above you, moved, formed and directed by the shifting illusions caused by the wind of will, and the force of subconscious concentration and demand.

We do not have one simple, cozy universe in which to hide. We are still alert to other quite alien systems of reality that flash on the very outskirts of consciousness as we know it. There are far more various kinds of consciousness than there are physical forms, each with its own patterns of perception, dwelling within its own camouflage system. Yet all of these have inner knowledge of the reality that exists within all camouflage and that composes any reality, by whatever name it is called.