Hiding Quotes - Page 20

• If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of hiding our heads in a prayer cloth and building walls against temptation, why not get better at fulfilling desire? Salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.

  Tom Robbins

  Prayer, Wall, Thinking

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.119, Bantam

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• ...the person who surrenders absolutely to God, with no reservations, is absolutely safe. From this safe hiding-place he can see the devil , but the devil cannot see him.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Devil, Safe

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• The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

  Vera Nazarian

  Ocean, Sea, Skins

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• You can't find intimacy - you can't find home - when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.

  Junot Diaz

  Running, Hurt, Home

  Interview with Matt Okie, www.identitytheory.com. September 2, 2008.

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• Goddamn it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!

  Henry Pierson Crowe

  Military, Heart, Marine

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• Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it's fun hiding behind characters that are so unlike who I am.

  Mark Hamill

  Fun, Character, Who I Am

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• You'll wake up on Easter morning, And you'll know that he was there, When you find those choc'late bunnies, That he's hiding ev'rywhere.

  Gene Autry

  Easter, Morning, Wake Up

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• All your personalities are absolute cover-ups, hiding your individuality.

  Rajneesh

  Personality, Individuality, Cover Ups

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• Life is only complete when your loved ones know you. When they know your true feelings, when they know who and how you love. Life is simple when your secret is gone. Gone is the pain that lurks in the stomach at work, the pain from avoiding questions, and at last the pain from hiding such a deep secret.

  Robbie Rogers

  Pain, Love Life, Gay

  "'My secret is gone': Former Leeds midfielder and US international comes out as gay" by Paul Cockerton, www.mirror.co.uk. February 15, 2013.

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• He can run, but he can't hide.

  Joe Louis

  Motivational, Sports, Running

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 20 June 1946.

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• We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.

  Kary Mullis

  Eyebrows, Childhood, Enemy

  Kary Mullis (2010). “Dancing Naked in the Mind Field”, p.27, Vintage

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• He tried to fool the United Nations, and did for 12 years, by hiding these weapons. And so, it's going to take time to find them. But we know he had them. And whether he destroyed them, moved them, or hid them, we're going to find out the truth.

  George W. Bush

  Years, Iraq, Fool

  George W. Bush's Remarks at Lima Army Tank Plant in Lima, Ohio, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. April 24, 2003.

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• The hours trip rapidly away, hiding their dreams in their skirts.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Dream, Skirts, Aging

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.94, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Rabbits, Juan, Toes

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• I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as a fan, but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he's actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about.

  Lana Del Rey

  Regret, Writing, Ambition

  "Lana Del Rey has a problem with our interview ... but why?" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2014.

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• I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Reality, Looks, Want

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• No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Islam, Labels

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• It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Helping Others, People

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• I feel that as long as you're honest, you have the opportunity to grow. It's when you shut down, go into denial, and try to start hiding things from yourself and others, that's when you lock in certain behaviors and attitudes that keep you stuck.

  Tracy McMillan

  Attitude, Opportunity, Long

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• This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves under the shadow of natural objects, and to fix them with the hand, presenting to plain sight what does not actually exist.

  Cennino Cennini

  Sight, Hands, Order

  Cennino Cennini (1954). “The Craftsman's Handbook”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide from the giant surveillance apparatus the government's been hiding.

  Stephen Colbert

  Government, Giants, Surveillance

  Twitter post from Jun 11, 2013

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• They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate?Misfortune?Is that what glued them down like that?Of course not.Let's not be stupid.It probably had more to do with the hurled bombs, thrown down by humans hiding in the clouds.

  Markus Zusak

  Stupid, Fate, Clouds

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• I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much dope, I was sitting on the couch, and just turning into a doughnut, and I really got irritated with myself.

  Brad Pitt

  Marijuana, Dope, Smoking

  "Brad Pitt spent decade smoking marijuana: Which '90s star came out on top?", www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2012.

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• There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.

  Roger Bacon

  Wisdom, Ignorance, Men

  "Teaching the pursuit of science". Book by John H. Woodburn and Ellsworth Scott Obourn, p. 70, 1965.

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• What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden - the passion for the revealed.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Love, Passion, Knowing

  "The House at Old Pimen". Essay by Marina Tsvetaeva, ch. 2, 1934.

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