Laid Bare Quotes

#1. It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out to be an attack upon mind.

Richard M. Weaver

#2. Yeah. Art is a lot like sex. It's intimate and personal. It's about being laid bare. About pushing boundaries. It's about making our senses come alive.

Marie Sexton

#3. He'd thought there was no part of him that Ben hadn't laid bare, but there was his hope. There was his heart.

Lisa Henry

#4. This was his soul made flesh, the truth of him laid bare in the blazing sun, shorn of mystery and shadow. This was the truth behind the handsome face and the miraculous powers, the truth that was the dead and empty space between the stars, a wasteland peopled by frightened monsters.

Leigh Bardugo

#5. As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color.

Barack Obama

#6. Between the calendar and checkbook, ones priorities are laid bare.

L.R.W. Lee

#7. Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Guy De Maupassant

#8. I felt laid bare, a fruit split open to reveal a moldering inside.

Tosca Lee

#9. The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.

Clarence Darrow

#10. There is something magical about running; after a certain distance, it transcends the body. Then a bit further, it transcends the mind. A bit further yet, and what you have before you, laid bare, is the soul.

Kristin Armstrong

#11. The mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#12. Davey Jones: Do you fear... death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare, all your sins punished?

Davy Jones

#13. Divested of your clothing and women and guard, you're just a traitor with his crimes laid bare for the world to see.

Erika Johansen

#14. Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you ... an escape.

Davy Jones

#15. Julian Assange is certainly no hero. The man behind WikiLeaks issued threats as if he were Dr. No bent on ending civilization as we know it. We will find him, lock him up, and throw away the key. But give the man credit; for a week the truth was laid bare.

Martin Cruz Smith

#16. In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being.

Denis Johnson

#17. The striking thing about 'New Girl' is that under all the comedy, there's something about the emotions and reactions that feels very real - much more real than other sitcoms. Like - maybe everybody is sort of laid bare in different ways.

Elizabeth Meriwether

#18. With Peter, she was laid bare; he extracted her from herself.

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

#19. Ronan's smile cut his face, but he looked kinder than Blue had ever seen him, like the raven in his hand was his heart, finally laid bare.

Maggie Stiefvater

#20. [2 Pet. 3:10] But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.10

Anonymous

#21. Well, I looked my demons in the eyes
laid bare my chest, said 'Do your best, destroy me.
You see, I've been to hell and back so many times,
I must admit you kind of bore me.

Ray Lamontagne

#22. The storm laid bare an unmistakable truth. More and more Christians have decided that the only way to reconquer America is through service. The faith no longer travels by the word. It moves by the deed.

Philip Yancey

#23. In every life, there comes a day of reckoning - a time when unsettled scores demand retribution, and our own lies and transgressions are finally laid bare.

Emily Thorne

#24. Around the circle eyes began to glisten as Carol's awe of the Gospel laid bare the shame of those of us whose senses had been dulled to its wonder.

Barbara Hughes

#25. In the United States, we see these same faces, and our reflex is to pick up our pace and cross the street. And in this reflexive gesture, the dimensions of our tragedy are laid bare.

Wes Moore

#26. It was time laid bare, time in and of itself, time at its most basic and primal, and it forced me to call it by its true name (for now I was living pure time - pure, vacant time) so as not to forget it for a moment, keep it constantly before me, and feel its weight.

Milan Kundera

#27. You see that one man will give a reward for the recovery of his tup, while another will only give thanks for the rescue of his wife. I suggest to you that one need not read the articles in the newspaper at all, for here - in the humble notices - all humanity is laid bare.

Jane Harris

#28. All the wounds of society, the wounds of poverty, of vice, of ignorance - all will be laid bare. Is there not something re-assuring in this?

Leo Tolstoy

#29. On that night the sky laid bare its internal construction in many sections which, like quasi-anatomical exhibits, showed the spirals and whorls of light, the pale-green solids of darkness, the plasma of space, the tissue of dreams.

Bruno Schulz

#30. I forget if it was the Mathematician of Alexandria who said that geometry is beauty laid bare or the Father of Relativity who made the claim for physics," Darger said. "She is, in either case, ravishing.

Michael Swanwick

#31. She supposed she ought to feel exposed in some way, the privacy of her thoughts and dreams laid bare to him - but she trusted him with them. He would never use those things against her.

Diana Gabaldon

#32. A fire burned in his belly with Helen's words, her challenge laid bare. Are you a king worthy of great glory, or a pretender clamoring for attention at the edge of the world? One look to Menelaus was all the reminder Agamemnon needed of how much he detested that comparison.

Aria Cunningham

#33. The blades touched my abdomen. A cold shock ran through me, and my head began to spin. If he had pressed just a bit harder, the scissors might have pierced my soft belly. The skin would have peeled back, the fat beneath laid bare. Blood would have dripped on the bedspread.

Yoko Ogawa

#34. And the magnitude of his own folly was at last laid bare.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#35. Six years, Kerry. I followed the rules. In six years, I haven't touched you." He paused, staring at the beautiful face he knew as well as his own, and laid himself bare. "But I've wanted to.

Kelly Moran

#36. I've laid my friends bare.

J.K. Rowling

#37. On the backs of her lids,all she saw were the bare-naked breasts laid out before him,his dark head descending,his tongue flicking free of his mouth ... and then his eyes lifting and meeting hers.

J.R. Ward

#38. In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.

John Grisham

#39. The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on fields wide-eyed and watchful and entirely careless of what was done or thought by the beholders.

Virginia Woolf

#40. Don't do that," he says. "Don't ask me questions you already know the answers to. Twice I've laid myself bare to you and all it's gotten me was a bullet wound and a broken heart. Don't torture me," he says, meeting my eyes again.
"It's a cruel thing to do, even to someone like me.

Tahereh Mafi