Hiding Quotes - Page 23

• You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct.

  Betty Wright

  Tired, Thinking, People

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• One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well. You mustn't be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Life, Player, Games

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• [On her morphine addiction:] I was meant to 'taper off.' At times I felt such pains as must afflict a creature while a bigger beast eats and claws at its middle. God-awful things were hiding underneath my bed, and it was no use telling me they were not there - I knew they were, and felt their dreadful ever-changing shapes.

  Evalyn Walsh McLean

  Pain, Addiction, Shapes

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• Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

  E. B. White

  Book, Happy Times, People

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• When a woman veils her body in modest clothing, she is not hiding herself from men. On the contrary, she is revealing her dignity to them.

  Jason Evert

  Men, Veils, Body

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• An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative prose, A Bit of Difference bristles with penknife-sharp dialogue, but its truths are more subtle, hiding in the unspoken. Ultimately, A Bit of Difference explores – with a hint of mischief–the problem of how to look like you have no problems when you have abundant problems–the universal problem of the socially-motivated classes.

  Nii Parkes

  Class, Differences, Despair

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• You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Religion, Trying

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• Dad is always hiding in his book.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Dad, Book

  "EL Doctorow, author of Ragtime and Billy Bathgate, dies in New York aged 84" by Nancy Groves, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2015.

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• Let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, who knew everything, even before the beginning of time.

  Saint Patrick

  Years, Laughing, Wish

  "The Confession". Translated by John Skinner, www.ccel.org.

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• I’ve never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still,/ If the dragon hiding in his tower dares/ To face me

  Burton Raffel

  Fighting, Dragons, Battle

  Burton Raffel, Robert Payson Creed (1963). “Beowulf: A New Translation with an Introduction”

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• Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Water, Dying, Malaria

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• 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.

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Darkness, Faces, Chance

  "My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941". Book by Mary Pope Osborne, 2000.

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• The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Running, People, Needs

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• It's not what people do that scares me. It's what they hide. It's the secrets that keep us from bonding and create distrust. If we were more willing to accept each other's depravity we'd be more united, we'd be more honest. If you hide two things from me, I'll assume you're hiding a million. And I'll keep you at a distance. I'm not afraid of the evil in you. It's in me too.

  Donald Miller

  Distance, Two, People

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• US special forces are closing in on Saddam Hussain but they're afraid to go in. He's hiding out in Tony Martin's farmhouse.

  Patrick Kielty

  America, Special, Hussain

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• Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.

  Italo Calvino

  Truth, Writing, Mean

  Italo Calvino (2012). “If on a winter's night a traveler”, p.205, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively--which means to live authentically--is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding--from others and also from themselves.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mean, Thinking, Self

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of 'Save the Earth' bumper stickers. You do it by articulating a vision for the future and pursuing it with all the ingenuity humanity can muster.

  Alex Steffen

  Inspirational, Hair, Humanity

  "The Next Green Revolution" by Alex Steffen, www.wired.com. May 1, 2006.

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• Mt. Sinai says, 'You must do. Mt. Calvary says, 'Because you couldn't, Jesus did.' Don't run to the wrong mountain for your hiding place

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Friday, Running, Jesus

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• In public, I hardly ever show feelings. That's what happens when everything you do is put under a magnifying glass. But if you've spent some time hiding behind your public mask, and you're back in your own environment, then all that suppressed emotions still has to be set loose. As a result you are going to behave like a nutcase. I think thats why so many people who are famous go nuts.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Glasses, Nuts

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• Hiding my migraines on the set may have been my toughest challenge as an actor. There were times when the pain from migraine headaches was so severe that I literally had to crawl across my dressing room floor. But I couldnt let anyone know. If they thought I might slow production, I figured that would end my career.

  Morgan Fairchild

  Pain, Careers, Challenges

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• There are too many over-fed, under-motivated Christians hiding behind the excuse that God has not spoken to them. They are waiting to hear voices or see dreams - all the while living to make money, to provide for their future, to dress well and have fun.

  Floyd McClung

  Christian, Dream, Fun

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• Freedom, peace, and inner joy will continue to elude us until we become aware of our real truth, without hiding ourselves or being ashamed of what we are.

  Lynn Grabhorn

  Real, Elude Us, Joy

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• Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.

  Lyle Lovett

  Love, Beautiful, Sweet

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• Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Men, Talking

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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