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Quotes About Hidden

It was my first lesson. Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two.
~ Madeline Miller
Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two.
~ Madeline Miller
My uncles rubbed their hands and smiled back. They went away, bent over their hopes, thinking what they could not wait to do when Titans ruled again. It was my first lesson. Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two.
~ Madeline Miller
A look passed across her face. I might have called it rage, if it were not pointed so inward.
~ Madeline Miller
The spiral shell. Always another curve out of sight.
~ Madeline Miller
The world is full of damp rocks, with some very strange creatures hiding under them.
~ John D. MacDonald
Never leave anything which can be traced, when you do have a choice.
~ John D. MacDonald
Notice that the older brother can't receive the father's generosity; he's closed off, curtained off, by his attention to Self. This is the hidden danger I spoke of: the stubborn life of the Self. The Exalted Me, unsubmitted and unsurrendered to the rule of Christ in me.
~ John Eldredge
What had always attracted me in the opposite sex was what they tried to hide, what provoked all the metaphorical equivalents of seducing them out of their clothes into nakedness.
~ Unknown
that secret hostility natural between brothers, the roots of which --little nursery rivalries--sometimes toughen and deepen as life goes on, and, all hidden, support a plant capable of producing in season the bitterest fruits.
~ John Galsworthy
They don't advertise, and their names are never in the papers. I doubt if a member has been arrested in the past ten years. It's a small network, very tight and disciplined.
~ John Grisham
The unhappy little home was out in the country, some six miles south of Clanton on an old county road that went nowhere in particular. The house could not be seen from the
~ John Grisham
Liza wiped some tears and decided to keep things dark. No one knew she was there and lights would only attract attention.
~ John Grisham
Through a door concealed in the paneling, they entered Mary's bedroom on the floor above.
~ John Guy
It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.
~ John Irving
That Emma was a restless soul was obvious, but not even Jack (not even Emma) was aware that something was seriously wrong with her.
~ John Irving
You shouldn't guess about someone's past; if you don't see any evidence of it, a person's past remains unknown to you.)
~ John Irving
No one will even know.
~ John May
Outside the hospital, I squinted in the harsh morning sunlight. I could hear birds chirping in the tree, but even though I searched for them, they remained hidden from me.
~ Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.
~ Bruce Schneier
Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]
~ Horace
You must also realize that the stuff of excellence-truth, real scientific truth-can be elusive... It is too often covered by the heavy fog of fear and hidden by the darkness of your detractors.
~ Daniel Goldin
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.
~ Josemaria Escriva