Quotes About Concealing

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Our excesses are the best clue we have to our own poverty, and our best way of concealing it from ourselves.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth …We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully.

Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or denying real emotions.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

Fancy as many Rules as you will of modeling the moral Behaviour of Man, they all do nothing, because they leave Nature still alive, and therefore can only help a Man to a feigned, hypocritical Art of concealing his own inward Evil, and seeming to be not under its Power.

I guess I do a really good job at covering.

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

All of us have ways in which we mask and cover our pain.

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

When aren't we acting?' he asked in his diary. 'When aren't we concealing? Would you like me to have been a fly on your wall yesterday? Did you do nothing shameful? Of course you did. The version of ourselves that we present to the world bears no resemblence to the truth. If we knew the truth about each other we could take noone seriously. There isn't one of us who could afford to be caught. That's all life is. Trying not to be found out.

In the bed of the truck lay a blanketed lump in the shape of an assault rifle, concealing—of course—an assault rifle, fully loaded with laser sight and silencer for catching the deer by surprise.

You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened. Your co-workers ask if everything's okay and you tell them you're just tired. And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile.

It is contrary to our customs to permit scientific knowledge to be held as a monopoly for the few. When concealing such knowledge strikes at life itself, the action becomes treason to the race.

Only the land remained, the silent order of the mountains, the ground covered in fallen dead leaves in the enormous space, a boundless expanse - disguising, concealing, hiding, covering all that lies below the burning earth.

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

that what we term sanity is only a measure of success in concealing underlying madness

I'm just very good at pretending.

I waive the quantum o' the sin,The hazard of concealing:But, och! it hardens a' within,And petrifies the feeling!

The important function of an American white sauce was not to enhance but to blanket.

That was the thing about polish. It might be pretty, but it was fundamentally obstructive, deflecting scrutiny, masking honest emotion. If she