Hiding Quotes - Page 24

• Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. The strength of resolve, which afterward shapes life, and mixes itself with action, is the fruit of those sacred, solitary moments. There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Silence, Soul, Secret

  Frederick William Robertson (1857). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series”, p.54

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• suicide is absolute, and if you think you will survive by hiding who you really are, you are sadly misled: there is no such thing as partial or intermittent suicide. You can only survive if you - who you really are - do survive.

  June Jordan

  Suicide, Thinking, Survival

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.93, Basic Books

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• ... stop trying to get me to write about 'decent courageous people' -- read the Ladies' Home Journal for those! ... I believe in going through and facing the worst, not hiding from it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Believe, Home, Writing

  Sylvia Plath, Aurelia Schober Plath (1975). “Letters home: correspondence, 1950-1963”, HarperCollins Publishers

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  I'm not hiding from anyone. I am who I am, and I'm not perfect.

  Justin Bieber

  Who I Am, Perfect, I Am Who I Am

  "Interview: Justin Bieber Talks About His Top 5 Rappers, Selena Gomez, and Growing Up In The Game". Interview with Joe la Puma, www.complex.com. March 30, 2012.

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• All my life I've been hiding.

  Jerzy Kosinski

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• When riches begin to come they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Years, Riches

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.21, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.

  Karin Slaughter

  Wall, Twenties, Cockroaches

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• Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the power of the line, she writes, 'I think the plastics/and sink them' then 'Where is the sand/man hiding the dirt.' These terse, biting poems will make you look around and wonder.

  Rae Armantrout

  Spring, Writing, Men

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• What's going to happen is that county council and the county executive will be able to blame the judge. I think that's what's going to happen -- they want to blame the judge for reassessment. That's not leadership, that's hiding.

  Robert S. Strauss

  Thinking, Judging, Want

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• Find god - he isn't hiding from you, you're hiding from him.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Thinking

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• It's all right to make mistakes, you're only humanInside everybody's hiding something.

  Dido Armstrong

  Mistake, Hiding Something, Making Mistakes

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• The universe has its secrets. Extra dimensions of space might be one of them. If so, the universe has been hiding those dimensions, protecting them, keeping them coyly under wraps. From a casual glance, you would never suspect a thing.

  Lisa Randall

  Space, Secret, Might

  Lisa Randall (2005). “Warped passages: unravelling the universe's hidden dimensions”, Lane, Allen

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• If you want to be in with a gang then you have to go along with hiding people's things.

  Louise Burfitt-Dons

  People, Want, Gang

  "They Hide Things". Act Against Bullying, 2002.

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• Scripture paints men as they really are, hiding none of their blemishes or barbaric ways. The honesty of scripture is one of the reasons I knew that the Bible would be the place to go to learn what a real man should be and do.

  Dennis Rainey

  Honesty, Real, Men

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• Each time I think I've made a connection with someone... once they find out what I can do, whether it's hours or days later, everything changes. Invariably they freak. They get retroactively paranoid, wondering what else Clark Kent is hiding from them.

  Mark Waid

  Thinking, Connections, Freak

  "Superman: Birthright". Comic series by Mark Waid, 2003 - 2004.

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• The human soul doesn't want to be fixed, it simply wants to be seen and heard. The soul is like a wild animal - tough, resilient and shy. When we go crashing through the woods shouting for it to come out so we can help it, the soul will stay in hiding. But if we are willing to sit quietly and wait for a while, the soul may show itself.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Animal, Waiting, Soul

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• It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!'

  Lily James

  Cutting, Men, Curves

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• When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.

  Wallace Shawn

  Children, Reality, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hiding your hurt only intensifies it. Problems grow in the dark and only become bigger and bigger, but when exposed to the light of truth, they shrink. You are only as sick as your secrets. So take off your mask, stop pretending you're perfect and walk into freedom.

  Rick Warren

  Life, Hurt, Dark

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• When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling the elegant orgies at the court of Louis XV, will recite the glories of Portmarnock and Merion, of the Road Hole at St. Andrews, the sixth at Seminole, the eighteenth at Pebble Beach. They will take out this volume from its secret hiding place and they will say: "There is no question, son, that these were unholy places in an evil age. Unfortunately, I had a whale of a time."

  Alistair Cooke

  Beach, Son, Golf

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• I have a great career, and I have wonderful fans who really are supportive and loyal - because I'm not hiding anything from them.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Careers, Supportive, Fans

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• Lustful Desire (although 'twere rather fit To some brute creature to attribute it) Shall be presented in the second place, Because it shrouds a vile deformed face Beneath love's vizard, and assumes that name, Hiding its own fault with the other's blame.

  George Wither

  Names, Lust, Desire

  George Wither (1839). “Poems ...”, p.21

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• 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.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Culture Religion, People, Secret

  "Son of Hamas". GQ interview, www.gq.com. March 11, 2010.

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• We are not hiding things from the American people, but China everyday is conducting business in a way that hides things from their people.

  Chris Christie

  People, Everyday, Way

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• China need to be fought back on. And what we need to do is go at the things that they are most sensitive and most embarrassing to them; that they're hiding; get that information and put it out in public. Let the Chinese people start to digest how corrupt the Chinese government is; how they steal from the Chinese people; and how they're enriching oligarchs all throughout China.

  Chris Christie

  Government, People, Chinese

  "Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate". cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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