Quotes About Hidden

Our cause is a secret within a secret, a secret that only another secret can explain; it is a secret about a secret that is veiled by a secret. —Jafar as-?diq, sixth Imam

Because if the Masters of the World exist, they can only be underground: this is a truth that all sense but few dare utter. Perhaps

A paradoxical consequence: hidden behind every false conspiracy there's perhaps a conspiracy by someone who stands to gain from presenting it as true.

No es que el incrédulo no deba creer en nada. No cree en todo. Cree en una cosa cada vez, y en una segunda cuando deriva de alguna manera de la primera. Avanza como un miope, es metódico, no aventura horizontes. Dos cosas no relacionadas entre sí, creer en las dos, y con la idea de que, en algún lugar, haya una tercera, oculta, que las vincula, esto es la credulidad.

It was like some horrible crime committed in a dungeon, all unseen and unheeded, buried out of sight and of memory.

The politicians and generals and kings lived in the limelight and enjoyed the glory, while the men of money stayed in the background and gave the orders, politely when possible, but making sure they would be obeyed.

And those that there are tend to be so deep in the closet you could mistake them for a clothes hanger.

finally to have a sex life, even if it was deeper in the closet than Narnia.

Sometimes the very thing you're looking for is the one thing you cannot see.

In jedem menschlichen Wesen auf dieser weiten, komplizierten Welt ruht eine erstaunliche Anlage zur Größe. Doch nur selten haben diese verborgenen Gaben die Gelegenheit, sich zu entfalten. Manchmal ist es allein der Zufall des Schicksals.

This story told me that there is no limit to one's ability—certainly not age—to accomplish in life what one must. Within each individual on this large and complicated world there lives an astounding potential of greatness. Yet it is rare that these hidden gifts are brought to life unless by the chance of fate.

a compliment is like a kiss through a veil.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

At the period of his most abject misery, he had observed that young girls turned round when he passed by, and he fled or hid, with death in his soul. He thought that they were staring at him because of his old clothes, and that they were laughing at them; the fact is, that they stared at him because of his grace, and that they dreamed of him.

This took place in the depths of a forest, at night, in winter, far from all human sight; she was a child of eight: no one but God saw that sad thing at the moment. And her mother, no doubt, alas! For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves.

Il n'y a rien de tel pour épier les actions des gens que ceux qu'elles ne regardent pas.

hidden from her. Still, the air is lighted and bright.

Let me tell you something else I know. When you hide things away, and keep them secret, they have a ... power.

If success were gold, lying in rivers, love was a diamond, buried hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the earth and unrecognizable in its natural form.

shame that was its silent twin.

She had slit a tiny opening in the lining and slipped the thick envelope inside of it.

Tonight, Mom painted a portrait of our family, and through her eyes I saw people I'd never imagined—a drunken, unfaithful husband and a depressed, overwhelmingly unhappy wife. How is it that I saw none of this? Are children so sublimely oblivious to their own world? She was right to hide this truth from me. Even now, I wish I didn't know it. Sometimes, knowing where we come from hurts more than we can stand.

Chérie, guardo scomparire le stelle», spiegò dopo un minuto. «Perché?» domando io. «Perché anche se non riesci a vederle sono sempre là» disse. «Si stanno solo nascondendo dietro il sole.» «E con questo?» replicai timidamente io. Lei mi lasciò andare e si chinò per guardarmi negli occhi. «Tesoro mio, è bello rammentare che non sempre hai bisogno di vedere qualcosa per sapere che c'è.»

But if anyone gets a hold of the names…" "They will not," Rémy said firmly. "Who would think to look in this boring, old religious text?" The corners of Père Clément's mouth twitched. "You think this is boring?" He held up the book. "You don't?" Rémy shot back with a grin. Père Clément laughed. "I don't think I should answer that.