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Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]? (Christine de Pizan)
We have peered into a new world and have seen that it is more mysterious and more complex than we had imagined. Still more mysteries of the universe remain hidden. Their discovery awaits the adventurous scientists of the future. I like it this way. View quote
Vera Rubin
All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying. View quote
Amy Tan
We are permitted to ride, providing we sit in a position ruinous to the horse; providing we wear a riding-habit long enough to hide the obscene human foot, weighed down by ten pounds of gravel to cheat the wind in its free blowing, so running the risk of disabling ourselves completely should accident throw us from the saddle. Think how we swim! We must even wear clothing in the water, and run the gauntlet of derision, if we dare battle in the surf minus stockings! View quote
Voltairine de Cleyre
It was hidden inside another book. One Valentine was unlikely to ever open." Magnus smiled crookedly. "Simple Recipes for Housewives. No one can say your mother didn't have a sense of humor. View quote
Cassandra Clare
It was sometimes inconvenient to have the gold-green, slit-pupilled eyes of a cat, but this was usually easily hidden with a small glamour, and if not, well, there were quite a few ladies-and men-who didn't find it a drawback. View quote
Cassandra Clare
He bent down to her; their mouths met again, and the shock of sensation was so strong, so overpowering, that she shut her eyes against it as if she could hide in the darkness. He murmured and gathered her against him. View quote
Cassandra Clare
They all have always loved you, Will Herondale, for you cannot hide what is good about yourself, however hard you try. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Will-," Tessa began but it was too late, Church made a yowling noise at being woken, and lashed out with his claws. Will began to swear. Tessa left, unable to hide the slightest of smiles as she went. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Hiding here, are you? That's awkward.” "Why?” "Because I had intended to hide here myself.” "You may hide here with me, if you wish. View quote
Cassandra Clare
The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is - to die. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look. View quote
Diana Wynne Jones
I am ashamed of the polished words, so I hide them throwing rough and crude notes like the Rondanini Pietà still raw with matter on the lines of crystal like the soul that sparkles in one's eyes. ... View quote
Caterina Davinio
let me have a look inside these eyes while I'm learning please don't hide them just because of tears. View quote
Natalie Merchant
When you're a charmer people respond they can't see the hidden agenda you got going on. View quote
Aimee Mann
I shall never rest until I am hidden and enclosed in that divine heart wherein all created forms are lost, and, so lost, remain thereafter all divine; nothing else can satisfy true, pure, and simple love. View quote
Catherine of Genoa
Sex is the dim echo of that original nakedness, primal, before anything else that is also human; later, isolated in an identity, hidden by it, in insensate because of it, one is a societal human being ruled by conformity and convention, not naked. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
We can prove through the testimony and documents that we will be presenting that this subject has been hidden from members of Congress and at least two administrations that we are aware of, two presidential administrations. View quote
Steven M. Greer
There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years. View quote
Richard Bach
The lapse of time uncovers hidden secrets. View quote
Muhammad al-Taqi
The essence of control is to remain hidden from view, is it not? (Richard Morgan)
The Nefertiti bust is one of the most popular art works in the world. It is printed on scarves and molded in necklace pendants and coffee-table miniatures. But never in my experience is the bust exactly reproduced. The copyist softens it, feminizes it and humanizes it. The actual bust is intolerably severe. It is too uncanny an object for domestic display. Even art books lie. The bust is usually posed in profile or at an angle, so that the missing left pupil is hidden or shadowed. What happened to the eye? View quote
Camille Paglia
Id have to say, for me, as a child, my favorite memories were always centered around Christmas time. It always seemed like no matter how much money my parents had or didnt have, we got completely spoiled rotten. There were always presents under the tree, and we always did special things, like hide elves around the house. View quote
Josie Bissett
When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it. View quote
Carly Fiorina
Why am I political? Because society's consistent and constant disregard and lack of respect for minorities, even the title minority, is too much to bear silently. Their insistence at our invisibility, whether subtle as noninclusion, or as loud and violent as hate crimes, is contagious, and can make me hide from myself. View quote
Margaret Cho