Behind The Veil Quotes

#1. Congress' dynastic politics has shattered the hopes & aspirations of people. Congress hides behind the veil of secularism whenever its governance falters and its misconduct is exposed. This will no longer go unchallenged. The younger generation will not accept these actions of Congress!

Narendra Modi

#2. Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

Paul Gauguin

#3. Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.

Radhanath Swami

#4. All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.

Rumi

#5. What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

Sri Aurobindo

#6. While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.

John Taylor

#7. What the scholars discovered behind the veil was a Jesus created in their own images according to their own prejudices.

R.C. Sproul

#8. The new world is as yet
behind the veil of destiny
In my eyes, however
its dawn has been unveiled

Muhammad Iqbal

#9. The wonderful thing is that the soul already knows to some extent that there is something behind the veil, the veil of perplexity, that there is something to be sought for in the highest spheres of life, that there is some beauty to be seen, that there is Someone to be known who is knowable.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#10. For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.

Richard Bach

#11. A life hidden behind the veil of excuses leaves behind a blank page, but a life with the brilliant light of purpose shone upon it fills every page with wisdom.

Farshad Asl

#12. Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil.

Loreena McKennitt

#13. Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.

Hafez

#14. Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance ... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.

Franz Marc

#15. Then I reached the second building and saw the conflagration. A bonfire twenty feet high. The wreck of a Hummer, its carcass barely visible behind the veil of flame.

Joseph Finder

#16. Unfortunately most magicians are immune to their own magic. We see behind the veil, we live inside the nuts and bolts, the element of surprise is lost on us. But we can help each other.

Menna Van Praag

#17. MADNESS Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity." The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means. SP-ST-62

Kahlil Gibran

#18. For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

Noam Chomsky

#19. Nazi ideologies continue to the present day behind the veil of supposedly free societies and governments.

James Morcan

#20. Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn.

Kahlil Gibran

#21. As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

Juliana Hatfield

#22. SPRING In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a smiling dawn. SP-ST-57

Kahlil Gibran

#23. He looked at me intently, from what seemed behind the veil of a grave experience. Then slowly and prophetically, he said the scariest thing I'd ever heard: Because the answer to a heartfelt question, Jack, will always break your heart.

Thomas H. Cook

#24. The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

John Rawls

#25. Executives can no longer hide behind the corporate veil. They need to be accountable for what their companies do, because entities are responsible for socially irresponsible behavior.

Simon Mainwaring

#26. The human being who would not harm you on an individual, face-to-face basis, who is charitable, civic-minded, loving and devout, will wound or kill you from behind the corporate veil.

Morton Mintz

#27. .. and I began to think that the strictures of Islam would quickly make me a fancier of the margins of anatomy, thrilling at especially trim ankles, seeking a wink behind a veil, or watching for a response in the shoulders of one of those shrouded forms.

Paul Theroux

#28. Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.

Jean Racine

#29. Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.

Connie Sellecca

#30. Franny looked at them up on the porch, everyone softened by the veil of the screen, by the light that was slanting in behind them, by the bank of yellow lilies that separated them from her. It was not unlike seeing tigers at the zoo.

Ann Patchett

#31. In the way our world is, everybody shoulder to shoulder, people knowing everything about you at first glance, a good veil is your tinted limousine window. The unlisted number for your face. Behind a good veil, you could be anyone.

Chuck Palahniuk

#32. I wanted to show that the fables and mythic tales which the ancients have handed down to us and in which painters and sculptors never cease to find mindless pleasure are the hieroglyphics of a secret, inexhaustible wisdom. I sometimes thought I felt its breath, as though coming from behind a veil.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#33. The face of Truth is hidden behind the golden veil of maya, says the Upanishad.

Mahatma Gandhi

#34. As soon as we are born
we hide God in ourselves.
We then spend our lives looking for Him
when all along, He has been concealed behind
the veil of 'I'.

Kamand Kojouri

#35. [Nabokov's] language is made visible ... like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind.

Jerzy Kosinski

#36. Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an uncertain chimera shimmering from behind a veil. You must not wait, loiter, dilly-dally. You must force your way painfully through.

Cynthia Ozick

#37. Finally, please remember this. If you EVER need something that you can stand behind, something to help you to take on and deflect all of the hatred of this often cruel world, you will ALWAYS have Black Veil Brides.

Andy Biersack

#38. Frodo heard a sweet singing running in his mind: a song that seemed to come like a pale light behind a grey rain-curtain, and growing stronger to turn the veil all to glass and silver, until at last it was rolled back, and a far green country opened before him under a swift sunrise.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#39. Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.

Bridget Riley

#40. Thorne's voice pitched high in imitation of the queen. The impostor of my beloved niece is vanquished ... Let us put this messiness behind us while we go forward with the coronations ... I am a psychotic, power-hungry nut basket and my breath smells really bad under this veil.

Marissa Meyer

#41. Eve took a bite from the apple, chaos ensued... earth became hell as heaven retreated behind an impenetrable veil.

Hamilton Stone