Veil Quotes

322 Veil quotes by 260 unique authors

My mom used to make my costumes when I was little; she sews a lot. One year, I was a bride and I had a… — Sasha Pieterse
You are trying to pierce the veil, to break through the Frisbee so that it doesn't exist, to break through the football so it doesn't… — Frederick Lenz
Passing the veil does not alter a man; it certainly takes him from the eyes of flesh, but the capacity, the intelligence, the thinking powers,… — Parley P. Pratt
All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest. — Bayazid Bastami
Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below… — Mary Ritter Beard
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep. — Jeff Greenfield
Finally, please remember this. If you EVER need something that you can stand behind, something to help you to take on and deflect all of… — Andy Biersack
Nazi ideologies continue to the present day behind the veil of supposedly free societies and governments. — James Morcan
The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed.… — Edward Abbey
Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked. — Louis Kronenberger
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape… — Elwyn Brooks White
Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly. — Friedrich Schiller
The Church is the house of God. It is forbidden for men to enter with bare arms or in shorts. It is forbidden for women… — Pio of Pietrelcina
O King of glory, though you hide your beauty, yet the eye of my soul rends the veil. I see the angelic choirs giving you… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons… — Frederick Douglass
If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a… — Seneca the Younger
I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life… — Charles Kingsley
The reality is we live in a world of scarce resources in this veil of tears, as Tony Abbott often describes the world, we have… — Chris Bowen
The duende....Where is the duende? Through the empty archway a wind of the spirit enters, blowing insistently over the heads of the dead, in search… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent. — Alexander Pope
I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the… — Thomas Cole
Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever. — Sathya Sai Baba
Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with… — Nathanael Emmons
A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose… — Olive Schreiner
You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You… — Andrew Solomon

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