Covertly Quotes

#1. My debauchery I undertook solitarily, by night, covertly, fearfully, filthily, with a shame that would not abandon me ... I was then already bearing the underground in my soul.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

John Gunther

#3. In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring.

Rumi

#4. In every situation, there's never a shortage of people who will covertly promote their own best interest.. with diligence.

T. Rafael Cimino

#5. We are on alert 24/7. And everything that you report will be investigated. We do it in private. We do it covertly. This could be a problem, it could simply be your neighbor having a bad day. But better be safe than sorry.

Barack Obama

#6. August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#7. Covertly the hands of a great clock go round and round! Were they to move quickly and at once the whole secret would be out and the shuffling of all ants be done forever.

William Carlos Williams

#8. [The task is to] covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social structure, of America so that we can be merged with all other nations.

Horace Rowan Gaither

#9. Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.

George Herbert

#10. It was an isidious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it. It was hope, too, that prevented a person taking counsel from experience.

Kate Morton

#11. At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd

Walt Whitman

#12. If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advertisements are covertly pornographic.

Philip Slater

#13. There is thus little or no ability for an internet user to know when they are being covertly propagandized by their government, which is precisely what makes it so appealing to intelligence agencies, so powerful, and so dangerous.

Glenn Greenwald

#14. Covertly influencing decision processes such as that the resulting decision is aligned with higher-order desires may actually enhance autonomy.

Cass R. Sunstein

#15. The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to
ironically-fait h!

Ravi Zacharias

#16. Many quotes about Self Motivation are not succinct but long and directly or covertly narcissistic.

Me

#17. It is a myth that women are the more complicated sex. Men too, have their moods and whims. They too, respond to every gauntlet that is thrown at them, either overtly or covertly.

Sandhya Jane

#18. In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, even though it be covertly, and by snatches.

Herman Melville

#19. Looking away did not help. He was never less than half-hard, and the woods along their route had seen enough of his covertly spilled seed to establish a forest of Brandons, could babes grow as trees did.

Eli Easton

#20. Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it.

Kate Morton

#21. Well, we could tell them that we're here on an archeological expedition.

Edie Adams

#22. I was born looking older - and I've been aging since I was a teenager.

Charles Durning

#23. IF ONE COULD RUN WITHOUT GETTING tired, I don't think one would often want to do anything else.

C.S. Lewis

#24. I hate thinking about writer's block! I don't have writer's block much, knock on wood, but if I do, I think it's usually because I haven't done enough research and am therefore unable to create a fully realized world.

Cynthia Kadohata

#25. She was the opposite of cool; she held nothing back.

Jerry Spinelli

#26. Readiness is the best way of truly taking care of soldiers.

Richard A. Kidd

#27. I'm interested in generating work for myself. I have trouble with this waiting-for-the-phone-to-ring lifestyle, especially after drama school, which was so creatively fulfilling.

Lupita Nyong'o

#28. With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party.

Joe Bastianich

#29. I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I'm free, and yet I can't let it show.

Anne Frank

#30. Managers will work for a salary. Entrepreneurs create new businesses. Many people have capital, but instead of making money for business they build houses for rent. It's easy money to collect rental.

John Gokongwei

#31. I want to promise you that I will never do anything to hurt Evan, and I will not come between him and his family. I love him, but I would walk away before I'd ever let anything jeopardize his happiness.

Rebecca Donovan

#32. No one grows old by living - only by losing interest in living.

Marie Beynon Lyons Ray

#33. I didn't answer him and didn't open my eyes, and there was a moment of perfect vertigo, when I heard the whooshing of the surf again and felt I was part of it, swirling with it and also standing still, swept up an sewn into the sea and into the universe, but also very, very alone.

Paula McLain

#34. No matter what you have done to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day.

Brian Tracy

#35. I am a very lazy man, so, for me, the dream is to be at home on the chair with my family.

Andrea Bocelli