Quotes of Covered - somelinesforyou

“ Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ Hell is paved with good intentions. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law. ”

- Paul Martin

“ I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference… ”

- Andy Gibb

“ Hell is paved with priests' skulls. ”

- Cervantes

“ Mutants! Know now that you exist!They have hid you in citiesAnd clothed you in fools clothesKnow now that you are free. ”

- Unknown

“ And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. ”

- Bible

“ All God's angels come to us disguised. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god. ”

- Francis Picabia

“ Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos. ”

- Joyce Grenfell

“ Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience. ”

- John Stuart Mill

“ I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ Hell is paved with good Samaritans. ”

- William M. Holden

“ My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. ”

- Quentin Crisp

“ Love and a cough cannot be hidden. ”

- George Herbert

“ On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! ”

- Jules Verne

“ The Chinese have said they're (the crew) being protected, I don't know from what. ”

- Colin Powell

“ There's no TV in our rooms. And this morning somebody hid the coffee. ”

- Ray Brown

“ Hell is paved with infants' skulls. ”

- Richard Baxter

“ I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle. ”

- John Milton

“ Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child. ”

- James Agee

“ Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and masked. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. ”

- Walter Landor

“ Age is like love, it cannot be hid. ”

- Thomas Dekker

“ The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion. ”

- John Ruskin

“ Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out. ”

- Arthur Young

“ I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled. ”

- Bible

“ One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this. ”

- Cervantes
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