Quotes of Covert - somelinesforyou

“ The outhouse was so overmodestly masked with vines and lattice that it was not concealed at all. ”

- Sinclair Lewis

“ Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event. ”

- Heinz Pagels

“ Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event. ”

- Heinz R. Pagels

“ The future is hidden even from those who make it. ”

- Anatole France

“ Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt. ”

- James Baldwin

“ The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface. ”

- E. H. Chapin

“ We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets. ”

- Howard Barker

“ The secret of a happy life isn't buried in a treasure chest... it lies within your heart. ”

- Unknown

“ The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person.You know they're right if you love to be with them all of the time. ”

- Julia Child

“ A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper. ”

- Marcel Pagnol

“ Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire. ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. ”

- Mike Murdock

“ The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning. ”

- Lewis Thomas

“ People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take "no" with any sort of grace, a taste for go. ”

- Linda Ellerbee

“ Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough. ”

- George Washington Carver

“ Secret Instructions for Reaching Xanadu:Go eastward from the Bewildered-Dragon LakeUntil you see the Monastery of the WestTower straight and high above your head.Then take Those charms which, as I told you, in the breastOf your most inner robe you have hidden, and followTheir clear instruction. ”

- Arthur Davison Ficke

“ Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. ”

- Italo Calvino

“ The sad think about the Sixties was the weak-mindedness of the so-called radicals and the way that they managed to get co-opted. I think one of the things that helped that happen was LSD. It's the only chemical known to mankind that will covert a hippy to a yuppie. ”

- Frank Zappa

“ You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in. ”

- Arundhati Roy

“ To learn, a person must want to change, to be better, to do differently, and this resistance does not occur without resistance. Resistance may be slight, or it may be great, and it may take a variable number of overt and covert forms. ”

- Lloyd Allen Cook
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