Veils Quotes
342 Veils quotes by 272 unique authors
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Louis XVI started to die on June 21st 1791. For his flight tore away the veil of that false constitutional monarchy, and once more confronted…
— Unknown Author
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The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching…
— Douglas Coupland
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Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.
— William Gurnall
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You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that…
— James Mattis
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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
— Demosthenes
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Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
— Kabir
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No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either
— Shirin Ebadi
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But what about you? Have you prayed about your own ancestors’ work? Set aside those things in your life that don’t really matter. Decide to…
— Richard G. Scott
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In the gospel of Jesus Christ you have help from both sides of the veil, and you must never forget that. When disappointment and discouragement…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.
— Louis Pasteur
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Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.
— Paul Gauguin
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Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
— Sri Aurobindo
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I really didn't know what to think about the veil. Deep down I was very religious but as a family we were very modern and…
— Marjane Satrapi
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In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is ‘an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.’ Here…
— George Frederic Watts
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The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life, the way to find the essence of every place,…
— Phil Cousineau
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People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing…
— Khalil Gibran
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The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all fields…
— Iwan Bloch
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It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity…
— Cesare Lombroso
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