Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way. — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy. — Richard B. Garnett Copy Share Image
In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill. — Francis Thompson Copy Share Image
In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed. — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
The human mind is like Salome at the beginning of dance, hidden from the outside world by seven veils. Veils of reserve,… — Muriel Box Copy Share Image
When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through… — Thomas Southerne Copy Share Image
People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
In this age of electronic money, investors are no longer seduced by a financial 'dance of a thousand veils.' Only hard and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount… — Mark E. Petersen Copy Share Image
Across the land a faint blue veil of mist Seems hung; the woods wear yet arrayment sober Till frost shall make them… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
I never took drug to escape. I know some people take drugs to escape, but I took drugs because I was an… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First… — Connie Sellecca Copy Share Image
Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage-and give exceedingly thanks for the mystery which remains… — Robert Nathan Copy Share Image
Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon then from… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
The U.S. is telling the Northern Alliance to kill Taliban prisoners. It's totally a breach of all the known conventions of war.… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
I'd always thought that my awkwardness was a thin veil disguising the real me. The me that was funny and could write… — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
