Quotes About Veiling

#1. With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter of the race is ended. Its summer has begun. Humanity has burst the chrysalis. The heavens are before it.

Edward Bellamy

#2. There was a Being whom my spirit oft
Met on its visioned wanderings far aloft.
A seraph of Heaven, too gentle to be human,
Veiling beneath that radiant form of woman ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#3. The portieres were drawn across the French windows now, veiling the stars outside - that were there nevertheless. ("Speak To Me Of Death")

Cornell Woolrich

#4. God will of necessity always be a hidden God. His loudest cry is silence. If he does not manifest himself to us, we will say that he hides himself. And if he manifests himself, we will accuse him of veiling himself. Ah! it is not easy for God to make himself known to us!

Louis Evely

#5. Diplomacy is not a veiling of the truth. It is the ability to be sensitive to the truth.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#6. Veiling truth in mystery.

Virgil

#7. Any unveiling is also veiling. No matter how transparent our governments want to be, governments will be selectively transparent.

Ivan Krastev

#8. To lessen or destroy sexual pleasure is to lessen temptation; a fallback in case the religious injunctions on veiling and seclusion somehow fail to do the job.

Geraldine Brooks

#9. The silence encompassing the feeling so juvenile, veiling everything but a sham smile.

Parul Agrawal

#10. Moving islands in the ocean of sky.
Beautiful white curtains in the sky,
Veiling and unveiling portions, as time passes by.
I watch clouds, when my mind feels clouded.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#11. The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#12. His pale eyes blazed with the power of what he felt for me. The reflected heat warmed me where I hadn't even known I was cold. Then his golden, spiky lashes swept down, veiling his thoughts.

Ann Aguirre

#13. In the Ummah, there was no tradition of veiling until around 627 C.E., when the so-called "verse of hijab" suddenly descended upon the community. That verse, however, was addressed not to women in general, but exclusively to Muhammad's wives:

Reza Aslan

#14. A peaceful mind is a powerful mind ... Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#15. Artists, curators, collectors: we're all part of a regime.

David Balzer

#16. St George won 11 premierships with one Raper, imagine how Canterbury will go with 13.

Darren Lockyer

#17. We live in such a consumer-based world. Everything we do, someone else has provided for us, so there is something really empowering about knowing that once I have found the right pieces of wood, I can start a fire and keep myself warm and skin an animal to eat and make its skin into leather.

Neil Jackson

#18. Sighing, she headed back to work. She braced herself to lift the heavy lid of yet another trunk. The sight inside curled a small smile onto her lips, as it had with every trunk she'd pried open this morning.
Books. More beautiful, precious books.

Catherine LaRoche

#19. If you constantly fret about timing things perfectly, they'll never happen.

Jason Fried

#20. I was yelling at a dame with a frontage that would have made a good bookshelf.

Rex Stout

#21. He was the sort of guy who took a lot without giving her anything back
The more he hurt her the more desperately she loved him. Life's strange. Sometimes things happen almost as if we're punishing ourselves for some fault that we can't really identify.

Guillaume Musso

#22. A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

Archibald MacLeish

#23. The way to real growth is not to become more powerful or more famous, but to become more human and more tolerant.

Helen Steiner Rice

#24. When I want to get anywhere, I usually do.

Agatha Christie

#25. I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood - we played kick-the-can and ring-a-levio.

Bonnie Bedelia

#26. I can be such a people pleaser, and so worried about what people are thinking or feeling insecure.

Ari Graynor

#27. There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.

Hosea Ballou

#28. Luggage and guests did not travel together ... in fact, luggage went by a different route, so suitcases could be distributed to guest rooms before they arrived

Estella M. Chung