Covered Quotes

• A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Political, Politics

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Soil, Moveable Feast

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.

  Saint Augustine

  Covered Up, Catholic, Scandal

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• She felt dirty all over and looking over Sebastian, sweat on his brow and his naked torso barely covered by the sheets, she had to swallow back bile at what she'd just done.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dirty, Sweat, Naked

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• At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

  Andre Gide

  Birthday, Real, Wrinkles

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.286, Routledge

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• It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Birthday, Real, Men

  Sartor Resartus ch. 4 (1838)

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• Satan never wastes a fiery dart on an area covered in armor.

  Beth Moore

  Christian Inspirational, Armor, Waste

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• That one man scorned and covered with scars
  Still strove with his last ounce of courage
  To reach the unreachable star.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Courage, Stars

  "Fictional character: Miguel de Cervantes". "Man of La Mancha", 1965.

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• The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Issues, Each Day, Labor

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.98, Vintage

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• I like crazy, childlike, candy bar-filled cakes with gooey caramel, chocolate-covered nuts, marshmallows, and the like.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Wedding, Crazy, Nuts

  "Wedding Cakes: Designer Ron Ben Israel Talks Money-Saving Tricks, Fresh Flavor Ideas, and More!" by Meredith Bodgas, www.glamour.com. July 19, 2010.

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• The media have literally no negative effect on Donald Trump. No matter what he says, no matter how he says what he says, no matter what he does, it gets covered.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, Matter, Negative

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.

  Ringo Starr

  Musical, Sound, Looks

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• I'm saying your name in the grocery store, I'm saying your name on the bridge at dawn. Your name like an animal covered with frost, your name like a music that's been transposed, a suit of fur, a coat of mud, a kick in the pants, a lungful of glass, the sails in wind and the slap of waves on the hull.

  Richard Siken

  Animal, Glasses, Wind

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• Suddenly his expression turned to alarm. He sprinted toward us. For a moment I had an absurd vision of myself on the cover of one of Gran’s old romance novels, where the damsel wilts into the arms of one half-dressed beefy guy while another stands by,casting her longing looks. Oh, the horrible choices a girl must make! I wished I’d had a moment to clean up. I was still covered in dried river muck, twine, and grass, like I’d been tarred and feathered. Then Anubis pushed past me and gripped Walt’s shoulders. Well…that was unexpected.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Past, Expression

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• You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far away. A place covered in blood-red earth and sleeping life. A place longing to come alive again. It's a place for disappearing, you'd said, a place for getting lost... and for getting found. I'll take you there, you'd said. And I could say that I agreed.

  Lucy Christopher

  Running, Sleep, Blood

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.253, Scholastic Inc.

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• In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized. They decay on their long journey down. Nothing will hit the black sand at the bottom of the world but algae-covered bones.

  China Mieville

  Crush, Fall, Dark

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• I've pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn't been covered yet.

  Andy Roddick

  Thinking, Who I Am, Style

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• The smile that covered a "multitude of pains" was no hypocritical mask. She was trying to hide her sufferings - even from God! - so as not to make others, especially the poor, suffer because of them. When she promised to do "a little extra praying & smiling" for one of her friends, she was alluding to an acutely painful and costly sacrifice: to pray when prayer was so difficult and to smile when her interior pain was agonizing.

  Brian Kolodiejchuk

  Prayer, Pain, Sacrifice

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• I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.

  Jessica Savitch

  Police, Literature, Crime

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you're covered and there's not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Simple, People, Needs

  "Arnold Schwarzenegger: Success and secrets". "60 minutes" with Lesley Stahl, mobile-feeds.cbsnews.com. September 30, 2012.

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• We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be filled with the person best suited for that role and together, every job and every strength is covered.

  Simon Sinek

  Jobs, Team, Together

  "Strength Building: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.

  Taylor Swift

  Wall, Framed, My Friends

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• It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, Doe, Way

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• I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.

  Helen Thomas

  Thinking, Two, People

  Phone interview on "The Majority Report" with Sam Seder, April 2, 2004.

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• You can't land on the moon and say, "Ooh, it's all sticky! It's covered in jam!

  Eddie Izzard

  Moon, Land, Jam

  Twitter post from Feb 17, 2015

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