Conceal Quotes
308 Conceal quotes by 245 unique authors
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The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.
— Umberto Eco
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If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.
— Unknown Author
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Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far left.
— Sean Hannity
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As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about…
— Richard Posner
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Advice to Young Journal Keepers. Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations. Give yourself all…
— Rosamond Lehmann
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well…
— Sylvia Fraser
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And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express…
— Joanna Russ
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When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well,…
— Henry Morgenthau, Sr.
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The analysts try in vain to conceal the fact that they do not deduce: they combine, they compose ... when they do arrive at the…
— Evariste Galois
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For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes…
— Khalil Gibran
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Never hope to conceal any shameful thing which you have done; for even if you do conceal it from others, your own heart will know.…
— Isocrates
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Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.
— John Gierach
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It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
— Neil Postman
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When the truth is ugly, people try to keep it hidden, because they know if revealed, the damage it will do. So they conceal it…
— Mary Alice
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I try to conceal art with art.
— Jean-Philippe Rameau
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Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your…
— Fred Brooks
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For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because…
— Okakura Kakuzo
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought,…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against…
— Arno Gruen
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