Hiding Quotes - page 8

A person can perhaps succeed in hiding his sins from the world, he can perhaps be foolishly happy that he succeeds, or yet, a little more honest, admit that it is a deplorable weakness and cowardliness that he does not have the courage to become open-but a person cannot hide his sins from himself. P. 182. (Søren Kierkegaard)
The year is 2098", he said, "with 69 billion inhabitants legally registered and approximately another 26 billion in hiding. The average annual temperature has fallen four degrees. In fifteen or twenty years there will be glaciers here. We have no way of averting or halting their advance - we can only keep them secret." "I always thought there would be ice in hell," I said. "And so you paint the gates with pretty pictures? View quote
Stanisław Lem
If you want to be in with a gang then you have to go along with hiding people's things. View quote
Louise Burfitt-Dons
They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time. No need to hurry out here. They are seventeen miles from a town which has ninety miles between it and any other. Hiding places will be plentiful in the Convent, but there is time and the day has just begun. View quote
Toni Morrison
The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Language can be very adept at hiding the truth. View quote
Dan Brown
Sometimes the haunting hunger drove the little dog out of his woodlot hiding places by day. But only when hunger became bigger than fear. Only on days when he had not been able to find a dead rabbit or crow, or hadn't been able to catch a quick, scurrying field mouse. On such days he would emerge from his shadowy woodlots. By secret avenues of hedgerow and fencerow he would whip himself across the furtive fields to still another woodlot. In the hope of finding something dead there, or of catching a mouse there. In that hope. View quote
Meindert DeJong
If you meet with any one who is virtuous do not drive him from you; do him honour, so that he may not have to flee from you and be reduced to hiding in hermitages, or caves or other solitary places to escape from your treachery; if there is such an one among you do him honour, for these are our Saints upon earth; these are they who deserve statues from us, and images... View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Oh, who would have dared believe that half-crazed I, I, sick with grief for the buried past, I, smoldering on a slow fire, having lost everything and forgotten all, would be fated to commemorate a man so full of strength and will and bright inventions, who only yesterday it seems, chatted with me, hiding the tremor of his mortal pain. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis. View quote
Christopher Moore (author)
I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy. (Claire Danes)
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places. View quote
Franz Kafka
Toward dawn, he dreamed that he was in hiding, in one of the naves of the Clementine Library. What are you looking for? a librarian wearing dark glasses asked him. I'm looking for God, Hladik replied. God, the librarian said, is in one of the letters on one of the pages of one of the four hundred thousand volumes in the Clementine. My parents and my parents' parents searched for that letter; I myself have gone blind searching for it. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition. View quote
Nicholas D. Kristof
If you look like you're hiding something, we're more likely to swipe left. View quote
Matthew Hussey
You called me a natural con artist and asked me what other secrets I was hiding. I didn't answer because I already knew, in some deep, primal way, what furtive truth you were referring to: That I was destined to fall in love with you. View quote
Megan McCafferty
I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me. View quote
Mary Pope Osborne
I'm familiar with the Palestinian mentality, the culture, religion, and when I had information coming in on a daily basis: secrets about personal lives, politicians, what they are hiding from their society that most people don't see, I started to see the picture in a different way. View quote
Mosab Hassan Yousef
As always, work with your figure; draping, pleats, and proportion can work miracles when it comes to hiding flaws and enhancing assets. View quote
Nina Garcia
What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Yeah, okay. But, Nico, youchoose how to live your life. You want to trust somebody? Maybe take a risk that I'm really your friend and I'll accept you. It's better than hiding. (Rick Riordan)
See through their narrative and their shrewd attempts at distraction. They will often present themselves as holier-than-thou or as the victim of other people's malice. The louder they proclaim their convictions, the more certain you can be they're hiding something. View quote
Robert Greene
A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like a hedge around a secret garden, or a cover over a bird cage. View quote
Sebastian Barry
Hiding from the truth was worse than being lied to. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
The world doesn't need more people playing small. It's time to stop hiding out and start stepping out. It's time to stop needing and start leading. It's time to start sharing your gifts instead of hoarding them or pretending they don't exist. It's time you started playing the game of life in a "big” way. View quote
T. Harv Eker