Veiled Quotes
71 quotes by 66 authors
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I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for…
— Dan Brown
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I know that The Other Side, and the spirits who live there, are as real as this earth we live on, and that the only…
— Sylvia Browne
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The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little which it needs…
— James Madison
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Heaven for me is hidden in a little Host Where Jesus, my Spouse, is veiled for love. I go to that Divine Furnace to draw…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon…
— Myrtle Reed
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One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign…
— Joseph Conrad
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When I hear music, it seems to me that all the sins of my life pass slowly by me with veiled faces, lay their hands…
— Sidney Lanier
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It is unlikely that we will ever see a star being born. Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the very young,…
— Heinz Pagels
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The year that Rutherford died (1938 [sic]) there disappeared forever the happy days of free scientific work which gave us such delight in our youth.…
— Pyotr Kapitsa
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Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.
— Maya Angelou
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The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.
— Yasunari Kawabata
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Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.
— Bertrand Russell
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I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho[ugh] popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it;…
— Richard Rumbold
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Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.
— Heinz Pagels
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And with each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me. And then I would remember I…
— Denis Johnson
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I believe that the levels of taxation advocated by liberals render those taxes a veiled form of theft. 'Give me more than half of your…
— Dennis Prager
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Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled…
— Laurie Lee
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Personalizatio n wasn't supposed to be a cleverly veiled way to chase prospects around the web, showing them the same spammy ad for the same…
— Seth Godin
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Freemasonry is 'veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols' because these are the surest way by which moral and ethical truths may be taught. It…
— Carl H. Claudy
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Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the service and convenience…
— William Howard Taft
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