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
Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles… — Iwan Bloch Copy Share Image
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This sentence alone would save mankind if all books and prophets… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is not pessimism but rather casting a cold eye on things. It is only one man's story, and I think that… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Sometimes my life has been Odyssean - landing on strange islands of consciousness and reality and meeting very curious monsters who turn… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Sometimes there's a sort of tear in the veil, and there are people who live in more than one dimension. — Kathryn Harrison Copy Share Image
If you come to France and you wear a veil, if you go to one of the administrative buildings, then that's not… — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
My heart is burning with love. All I can see is this flame. My heart is burning with passion, like waves on… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Then Jesus changed the situation. When he paid for our sins on the cross, the veil in the temple that symbolized our… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
In the past things were either in your head (subjective, imaginary, fantasy) or else they were part of the outside world -… — Elaine Equi 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
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
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
It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of… — Caroline Myss 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
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
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
