Quotes About Hiding Behind Words

#1. I am. I'm rude because I don't conform to society's standards that white lies are inconsequential. I don't believe in hiding behind words that aren't truthful. I'm an impatient man. I don't beat around the bush. If you ask me something, I won't lie to you.

Whitney Barbetti

#2. I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.

Armistead Maupin

#3. I come from a long line of sportsmen.

Armin Zoggeler

#4. You are speaking to a cat. If you do not believe this is magic, what do you think it is? She

Mercedes Lackey

#5. What was attraction if not a form of telepathy? The wild luck of two people feeling the exact same thing at the exact same time. That word again: purpose.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#6. You can use your imagination to get exactly what you desire.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. I am so much more than the hint of rage you discern hiding behind my restraint. I am so much more than the words I use. I am bottled heartache and the lies I tell myself when everyone else is asleep.

Nessie Q.

#8. What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people? Sylvie said.

Kate Atkinson

#9. Business is not the aim of life; it's a game.

Suleyman Kerimov

#10. One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#11. I'm in self-imposed exile, cradled between split branches, in my favorite tree in the woods behind school. I've been coming here every day at lunch, hiding out until the bell rings, whittling words into the branches with my pen, allowing my heart to break in private.

Jandy Nelson

#12. At night these people put out food so the ghosts will have something to eat. They put out Vietnamese food for the ghosts of the dead Vietnamese soldiers. But many American GIs died, too, so they put out American food for the ghosts of the dead American soldiers.

Ralph Fletcher

#13. Hiding behind the mask of a quotation, using someone else's words to bolster our own softly blooming emotions.

Vicki Pettersson

#14. Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his or her own life can it flow to a future generation

Nhat Hanh

#15. While I was in school, trying to figure out how to write an essay that could both satisfy my nonfiction workshops and still pass as something hybrid-y enough for my poetry workshops, I was looking for models, for forebears.

John D'Agata