Quotes About Hiding Things

#1. 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

#2. The Puget Sound is like a time machine, hiding things and then spewing them back onto its shores at the time and place of its choosing.

Sarah Jio

#3. Though we sometimes suspect that people are hiding things from us, it is not until we are in love that we feel an urgency to press our inquiries, and in seeking answers, we are apt to discover the extent to which people disguise and conceal their real lives.

Alain De Botton

#4. That was the trouble with hiding things. Sometimes, if you were in a hurry, you left them behind. Even important things.

Neil Gaiman

#5. We're all guilty of hiding things - it's the nature of the world today. We hide our feelings, we hide our pasts, we hide our true intentions. There's no way to know what's real anymore.

Suzanne Young

#6. I'm not a believer in hiding things from my kids because ultimately they are going to have questions - they feel things.

Kate Winslet

#7. If you hide information from people, don't want people to see the Ten Commandments or don't want people to hear about Darwin, aren't we hiding things that we know from our future generations? I just think that that's incorrect.

John Mellencamp

#8. 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

#9. I feel that as long as you're honest, you have the opportunity to grow. It's when you shut down, go into denial, and try to start hiding things from yourself and others, that's when you lock in certain behaviors and attitudes that keep you stuck.

Tracy McMillan

#10. I'm interested in really particular details, ideas, thoughts, and emotions, yet it's defused with performance, where you can play with hiding things, or be more confrontational about something shielded. There is this process of layering in performance.

Sue Tompkins

#11. When you start hiding things away, that's when the darkness creeps up. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Steve Kazee

#12. If you want something, get it. If you like someone, show it. If your sad, cry. Happy, smile. no point in hiding things and pretending to be one thing when your really another.

Marilyn Grey

#13. I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out.

Celia Cruz

#14. I hate hiding how much the stupid things he did hurt me, but I hated the idea of him finding out even more.

Leigh Bardugo

#15. I believe that there is luminosity hiding in the shadow of the mundane. And things that hover at the periphery of our vision. If that's magic, then I believe in it.

Natasha Mostert

#16. A pregnancy tore up our lives. It's going to tear up hers. There's no hiding from that. A pregnancy's one of those things that doesn't hide well. It's kind of like trying to ignore an elephant in the living room.

Jennifer Greene

#17. The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.

Roald Dahl

#18. Thinking about such things soothed the creature as it dug at the base of a tall oak tree, deep into the ground, covering itself with dirt and leaves and moss; hiding, healing, waiting.

Joe DeRouen

#19. Were all these castle folk in their ornate finery no more than confused souls hiding inside costumes, as the hard shells of snails protected the helpless, naked things that lived within them?

Tad Williams

#20. Ah, that is the miracle of the written word. It beckons our unconscious out of hiding. It tells us things we need to know, sometimes things we don't want to know.

Amy Gail Hansen

#21. There are people out there hiding all kinds of things. People who have all this success and all this fame and all this money, and yet there are secrets that they think if we found out about, it would be over for them. And it's a horrible way to live whether you're famous or not.

Ellen DeGeneres

#22. My hands begin to shake as I read the past due notice. The mortgage hasn't been paid in two months. I had no idea Doug hadn't been paying it. Add it to the long list of things my husband had been hiding from me.

Ren Monterrey

#23. Darkness does this. It finds all the places you are hiding in. It finds all the things you are holding onto tightly and makes you let go.

Deb Caletti

#24. Whatever these futilities of mine may be, I have no intention of hiding them any more than I would a bald and grizzled portrait of myself. These are my humours, my opinions, things which I believe, not to be believed. My aim is reveal myself which may well be different tomorrow.

Michel De Montaigne

#25. You can drive in your imaginations to make a tour to your future, visit it and see all kinds of good things hiding in there. But you have to take bold actions before you can truly relocate into what you see!

Israelmore Ayivor

#26. Real secrets mean more than hiding that card game from you daddy. Real secrets can be hurtful. Make people do bad things.

Augusta Scattergood

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

Louise Burfitt-Dons

#28. I just don't get it. I've spent my whole life hiding the things I can't do. Why run from the amazing things you can do?

Leigh Bardugo

#29. It feels strange to me to be living in a box, hiding from the steadying influence of the moon; wearing the hide of a cow, which is supposed to be dyed to match God-knows-what, on my feet; making promises over the telephone about things I will do at a precise hour next year.

Barbara Kingsolver

#30. Sometimes he reminded me of a turtle hiding inside its shell, in there thinking about things and not ever sticking his head out into the world.

Kate DiCamillo

#31. Things are never lost to you; you are lost to them. If ever in need of a Thing that has lost you, simply stop hiding from it.

Shannon Hale

#32. The important things usually prove to be very simple. They are also open secrets in the sense that no one is hiding the knowledge from us except ourselves.

Robert Moss

#33. For I, too, had a hiding place when things were bad. Jesus was this place, the Rock cleft for me.

Corrie Ten Boom

#34. If you say I hide things because I'm shy, that can't be right. I've finally realized it's for a different reason
that I don't want to see the darkness that lies in my heart

Natsuo Kirino

#35. As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities ... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place of stupidity I must attack: vain mortal, you are limited by nothing ...

Eugene Delacroix

#36. This is not pessimism but rather casting a cold eye on things. It is only one man's story, and I think that things will go better, but difficulties exist and nothing is served by hiding them under a poetic veil or under a lyricism of the past. I am against slogans.

Chinua Achebe

#37. You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.

Tracy Chevalier

#38. Teresa handed Thomas a really long knife, almost a sword. He couldn't imagine where she'd been hiding these things, but she now held a short dagger in addition to her spear.

James Dashner

#39. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

Jodi Picoult

#40. I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Carlos Beltran

#41. Maybe Sam was right about things hiding inside of us. How many more things were hiding there?

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#42. What a shitty way to go through life, hiding your love for music so that people don't think the wrong things about you.

Ahmir Questlove Thompson

#43. You are hiding something from me, I say and Sidney Grice shakes his head. 'No,' he tells me quietly. 'I am hiding a great many things'.

M.R.C. Kasasian

#44. Most guys, Madoc, like something different. You know why you want to see me in "nice," skimpy things? Because the more I show, the less I'm hiding. I scare you.

Penelope Douglas

#45. 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

#46. [ ... ]after spending so long with someone [ ... ] they eventually begin to see through all of the things you think you're hiding from them so well.

J.A. Redmerski

#47. In my view, the greatest threat to America's future isn't hiding in a cave in Pakistan or Afghanistan; it's right here at home. Baby boomers like myself are on course to become the first generation of Americans who leave things in worse shape than they found them.

David Walker

#48. I confess to you guys, I confess to the church, I know I have backed away from certain things because of my arrogance. I thought I could attract more people to Jesus by hiding certain things about him.

Francis Chan

#49. We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.

Afrika Bambaataa

#50. 25At that time Jesus prayed this prayer: "O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, thank you for hiding these things from those who think themselves wise and clever, and for revealing them to the childlike. 26Yes, Father, it pleased you to do it this way!

Anonymous

#51. Clyde had a theory that women had a book, a homemade, photocopied three-ring binder called "Surprising Things to Do in a Relationship," which they passed around to one another, adding pages from time to time, hiding it under the bed. He figured that Desiree could run home tonight and add a new page.

Neal Stephenson

#52. I hid all the things I was feeling
and indeed I did not know what they were, except that all the peace of that autumnal journey was gone

C.S. Lewis

#53. I don't like hiding. I do like to keep certain things to myself, but at the end of the day, I'm eighteen, and I'm going to fall in love.

Selena Gomez

#54. There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.

Obert Skye

#55. OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There are possibly other systems in which this is possible, but I'm not aware of them.

Anonymous

#56. You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness.

Joy Page

#57. But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I'm becoming so sensible! ...

Anne Frank

#58. This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves under the shadow of natural objects, and to fix them with the hand, presenting to plain sight what does not actually exist.

Cennino Cennini

#59. :They spend a quarter of their lives writing things down, a quarter finding what other people have written down, a quarter hiding what was written down, and a quarter making sure if it should have been written down and wasn't, it is now.:

Mercedes Lackey

#60. But something older and wiser within her said, Some things are for hiding and for keeping.

Catherynne M Valente

#61. One of the things cops learn first is that everyone lies. Some people to hide things, some people just for the hell of it, but everyone lies. Assume that everyone is hiding something, it saves time.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#62. True awakening involves embracing every aspect of yourself with love and acceptance, including everything you have been denying, hiding or trying to fix. To deny these things is a judgment of them and judgment will keep you forever imprisoned within separation.

Leonard Jacobson

#63. After all, we humans are not just one thing, we are multiple things, all at once, and any man wearing a badge on his chest boasting one particular quality or value is a man who is hiding ten other qualities and values he didn't see fit to pin to his lapel.

Lenore Zion

#64. I hate the dark. It lets your mind imagine the scariest things hiding in it while in most cases there is nothing there.

Cameron Jace

#65. I liked to feel I had to do things perfectly; I felt I was earning my freedom. Though I was in hiding, and though I worked every day until midnight, I felt I was much more in charge of myself than I had ever been.

V.S. Naipaul

#66. How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.

Andrew Sean Greer

#67. The hiding place is believed to contain the Crown of All Things," said Lermont. "Sounds tempting, doesn't it? But somehow I think that the Crown of All Things is really the End of All Things." Semyon

Sergei Lukyanenko

#68. Fear thrives strongest; there is no telling how little we would be without having suffered fear. An intrinsic characteristic of humanity is the tendency to give in to fear. No fear is lost, but its hiding places are a riddle. Perhaps, of all things, fear is the one that changes least.

Elias Canetti

#69. Because the Beloved wants to know, unseen things become manifest. Hiding is the hidden purpose of creation.

Rumi

#70. And suddenly I realized that this too was a message, a last wordless communication among neighbors. For I, too, had a hiding place when things were bad. Jesus was this place, the Rock cleft for me. I pressed a finger to the tiny crevice.

Corrie Ten Boom

#71. A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.

Charles Caleb Colton

#72. You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and on things, not only from others but from ourselves.

Rajneesh

#73. I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, hiding her true face from my gaze. "Pray for me, if you like," he told his cousin. "I forgotten all the words.

George R R Martin

#74. Rest in your God-breathed worth. Stop holding your breath, hiding your gifts, ducking your head, dulling your roar, distracting your soul, stilling your hands, quieting your voice, and satiating your hunger with the lesser things of this world.

Sarah Bessey

#75. Amazing things happen when you stop hiding behind that hulking beast.

Gayle Forman

#76. Oh, fine.' Rochelle sprinkled some water over one of the glowstones and laid the object down in the center of their tiny camp. 'I didn't know you were afraid of the dark.'
'It isn't the dark I'm afraid of. It's the things hiding in the dark that I can't see.' Laura closed her eyes. 'Like ninjas.

J.S. Bailey

#77. But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.

Sarah Dessen