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Quotes About Hide

Her pretty feet, like snails, did creepA little out, and then,As if they played at bo-peep,Did soon draw in again.
~ Robert Herrick
for he was one of those glittering people whose every gesture looks like a miracle, whose every word sounds like a new philosophy. You've a bit of that yourself, valiantly as you seek to hide it.
~ Robin McKinley
However paradoxical it may seem, myth hides nothing: its function is to distort, not to make disappear.
~ Roland Barthes
The range had been exceptional. An apartment balcony fourteen hundred yards away had been identified as the rifleman's hide. Fourteen hundred yards is more than three-quarters of a mile. The French president had been at an open-air podium behind
~ Lee Child
I should rather take my chances with the lions of Rome's ancient Colosseum than endure another tea chat with the likes of them. At least the lions are honest about their desire to eat you and make no effort to hide it.
~ Libba Bray
I miss the closet. Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities.
~ Ron Paul
Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.
~ Jim Morrison
It feels unkind that they are shoving their emotions at him when his own sadness and fear are so vast that he has to hide from them.
~ Ann Napolitano
Natural language terms that express likelihoods, like "very likely" and "unlikely," are useful but blunt instruments. The drive to improve on your initial estimates is what motivates you to check your information and learn more. If you hide behind the safety of a general term, there's no reason to improve on it or calibrate
~ Annie Duke
My agents have me in the Actors' Protection Program. It seems to be working very well. Nobody can find me.
~ Teri Garr
Where do you lurk? I shall come down your burrow and ch-chivvy you out like an old st-t-toat.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Sudden revulsion seized Amory, disgust, loathing for the whole incident. He desired frantically to be away, never to see Myra again, never to kiss anyone; he became conscious of his face and hers, of their clinging hands, and he wanted to creep out of his body and hide somewhere safe out of sight, up in the corner of his mind.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
So, for the shoddiness of needs, are shoes made out of last year's hide.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
My parents called me the WB frog. Because when I was onstage, I would do this whole song and dance, but if my parents had a family friend over, I would just go hide in the bedroom.
~ Brie Larson
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
We all pretend, we all hide things, so why not take the concept to an extreme? That is the basic idea for the character of Dexter. Pretend to be human, while quietly and carefully living out the life of a monster on the side.
~ Jeff Lindsay
The terrorists hide behind Allah.
~ Linda Chavez
The word 'color' means at its origin to 'cover' or 'hide.' Matter eats up light and 'covers' it with a confusion of color.
~ Robert Smithson
I could write a treatise on the secret sources of Mexican sentimentalism. What twisted people we are. How simple we seem, or pretend to be in front of others, and how twisted we are deep down. How paltry we are and how spectacularly we contort ourselves before our own eyes and the eyes of others, we Mexicans. And all for what? To hide what? To make people believe what?
~ Roberto Bolano
But there was a cost to that surcease from pain, Fool. When you dull pain and hide it from yourself…" My words trickled away. I did not want to sound self-pitying. "You dull your joys as well." He said it simply." p. 510 Fitz to the Fool
~ Robin Hobb
The path will find you," he assured me, and smiled. "In darkness it cannot hide itself." p. 467 Prilkop to Fitz
~ Robin Hobb
Securing permission is not always this easy. I've been thrown out of homes. Had beer bottles tossed at my head, vicious threats spewed in my face. For some, rage is easier to handle. And many families do have secrets to hide.
~ Lisa Gardner
I mean—are some men just flawed by nature? Or do we enable their bad behavior, make it worse in a way because we hide it, and don't demand better from them?
~ Lisa Unger
Surely there is some redress for me, some safety in this land of law and liberty. I claim entire freedom from this man's persecution; I will hide no longer, here I shall remain and let him molest me at his peril.
~ Louisa May Alcott