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Quotes About Hide

he observed, the contemporary trend was "to treat mourning as morbid self-indulgence, and to give social admiration to the bereaved who hide their grief so fully that no one would guess anything had happened.
~ Joan Didion
What is needed is the imagination of the poet and the reasoning power of the mathematician. The thief of "The Purloined Letter" successfully hides the letter from the police because he is both a poet and a mathematician. Dupin is able to find it because he too meets both conditions.
~ Unknown
Referring to Jumper the spider, who needs to hide himself in human form, and he's learning to act like a human. I'm sure I can learn to walk faster than that, he said desperately. But you'll also need to learn the nuances of human behavior. Such as not going around naked. What's wrong with being natural? he demanded. Humans aren't natural. They are girt about by all manner of conventions. It will take time for you to catch up with them all.
~ Piers Anthony
So Tumpty tried hiding upside down, behind a pot plant, under a large cardboard box, with his eyes tightly closed.
~ Unknown
O, WHAT MAY MAN WITHIN HIM HIDE, THOUGH ANGEL ON THE OUTWARD SIDE! —William Shakespeare
~ Dean Koontz
the drawer contains a 9 mm Glock pistol. She stashes the gun here
~ Dean Koontz
The oiled hide that covered the window glowed golden in the dark, with the flame of the candle he had left burning in the hope of Claire's return. His sanctuary.
~ Diana Gabaldon
has by all reports got a character that would enable him to hide conveniently behind a spiral staircase.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I really think this is why people have faces, to hide their souls. Has to be, or every street… would be a passage through hell.
~ Unknown
Sallie said, "One: name the disease. Tell the truth about the prognosis. Two: reassure the children that they didn't cause it. Three: tell them everything the doctors are doing to help. Four: don't hide anything." After growing up on the wisdom "Don't tell
~ Unknown
let his wife see the White House servants. It's true. Whenever she walked into a room, they had to go hide in a closet.
~ Dan Gutman
But a child is a sensitive instrument. You can hide the factual truth from a child, but you can't blanket influence. Your agitation will out, and over time it will mod your child's temperament as surely as water wear at rock.
~ Daniel B. Smith
Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.
~ Calista Flockhart
In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.
~ Gijs de Vries
I'm a bit of a wuss. I'll even watch, like, a Tom Cruise 'Jack Reacher' movie where, I mean, there's a lot of action, but the violence is no real violence, but I still hide my face because there might be violence.
~ Adina Porter
My only surprise when I saw Thanos up on the screen was how violet he was. I always saw his exposed hide as being more grayish violet.
~ Jim Starlin
A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.
~ Louis J. Camuti
La misma energía que podría utilizarse para resolver el problema se disipa negando el problema, ocultando el problema y evitando el problema.
~ Unknown
Forgetting all the hurt inside you've learned to hide so well, pretending someone else can't come and save me from myself.
~ Unknown
She puts on a smile, and her tears have dried, but the silence breaks the heart inside, she gets all pretty and shows her face, and yet they see her as a disgrace, she tries to hide it for a little while, but she losses her should and her smile.
~ Unknown
I always feel like a woman designing for a woman. I know what you want to accentuate and what you want to hide.
~ Monique Lhuillier
It was a perfectly normal May Day, but Sophie was scared of that too. And when a young man in a fantastical blue-and-silver costume spotted Sophie and decided to accost her as well, Sophie shrank into a shop doorway and tried to hide. The young man looked at her in surprise. It's all right, you little gray mouse, he said laughing rather pityingly. I only want to buy you a drink. Don't look so scared.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Look at it! It's ginger! I shall have to hide until it's grown out! Despair! Anguish! Horror!
~ Diana Wynne Jones
the wealth they had accumulated from retail needed to hide its origins, for it is well known that the purity of gold increases the further removed it is from labor.
~ Diane Setterfield