He who reads the Bible in translation is like a man who kisses his bride through a veil. — Hayim Nahman Bialik Copy Share Image
Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled. — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
Take away, O Lord, the veil of my heart while I read the Scriptures. — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
“The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérèse despised them for confounding virtue… — François Mauriac Copy Share Image
What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day? — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
Still and pale Thou movest in thy silver veil, Queen of the night! the filmy shroud Of many a mild, transparent cloud… — Winthrop Mackworth Praed Copy Share Image
“Far from the maddening crowds, Love leaves a trail; If you take my name, I shall come Leaving behind all my veils!” — Neelam Saxena Chandra Copy Share Image
Executives can no longer hide behind the corporate veil. They need to be accountable for what their companies do, because entities are… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
I will prove that the world is wrong, by showing what God is...God himself was once as we are now and is… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
There are just too many opportunities - and an increasing number of them - to hide systemic, institutional wrongdoing behind legal veils,… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
This is the pathless path - returning to where you were initially before you got lost. The deepest truth in you is… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy.… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet,… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You are trying to pierce the veil, to break through the Frisbee so that it doesn't exist, to break through the football… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic overtones, soul orgies, wailings among the shadows, weird gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The loving and much loved wife is satisfied with the love of her husband; his smile is her joy, she cares little… — Robert E. Murray Copy Share Image
It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
No matter what is happening in the world of appearances, beyond the veil of illusion there is love and only Love. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When we get into the spirit world, and the veil is withdrawn, we shall then perhaps understand the whys and wherefores. — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think well draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous… — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
