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Our whole life can go on in observation of the laws of nature, if we gain dominion over our desires from the beginning and if we do not kill, by various means of a perverse art, the human offspring, born according to the designs of divine providence; for these women who, in order to hide their immorality, use abortive drugs which expel the child completely dead, abort at the same time their own human feelings. (Clement of Alexandria)
He who loves is not ashamed before men of what he does for God, neither does he hide it through shame though the whole world should condemn it.
John of the Cross
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
Sri Aurobindo
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
Sri Aurobindo
The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.
Marshall McLuhan
New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.
Robert Graves
Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there?
Cesare Pavese
Brains are an asset to the woman in love who's smart enough to hide 'em.
Mae West
It has never occurred to me before, but this is truly how it is: all of us on earth walk constantly over a seething, scarlet sea of flame, hidden below, in the belly of the earth. We never think of it. But what if the thin crust under our feet should turn into glass and we should suddenly see. I became glass. I saw - within myself.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.
P. G. Wodehouse
The cosy glow which had been enveloping the Duke became shot through by a sudden chill. It was as if he had been luxuriating in a warm shower-bath, and some hidden hand had turned on the cold tap. (P. G. Wodehouse)
Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths.
Neil Gaiman
Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and "gives the whole show away.” The seducer and the politician, who live in the dialectic and have a feeling and instinct for it, try their best to keep it hidden.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything i felt. More than ever, i need that now.
Orson Scott Card
My problem was that I felt ashamed of feeling sad or angry. Now, I don't hide my vulnerability in my lyrics. There's no way I was going to get raped and not get something out of it. I learned about power and hope and forgiveness. I like who I am now and I wouldn't be who I am if that hadn't happened.
Fiona Apple
I try to say goodbye and I choke Try to walk away and I stumble Though I try to hide it, it's clear My world crumbles when you are not here.
Macy Gray
I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.
Djuna Barnes
The crow does not hide its prey, but calls for others to share it; So wealth will be with those of a like disposition.
Thiruvalluvar
I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.
Chuck Palahniuk
Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves. (Matthew Arnold)
And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well - but 'tis not true!
Matthew Arnold
Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires all turning into rust again. Out of everything nothing remains the same That's why I'm cloud hidden Cloud hidden Whereabouts unknown.
Van Morrison
He can run, but he can't hide.
Joe Louis
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.
François de La Rochefoucauld