Quotes About What Lies Beneath

#1. Beware a calm surface - you never know what lies beneath.

Paula Hawkins

#2. The River', a poem from 'Profound Vers-A-Tales':
Your perception of my exterior may not match what lies beneath the surface.

Kamil Ali

#3. Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.

Tom Allen

#4. What lies beneath has pushed its way to the surface once again. Time to get away while there is still air left in our lungs.

Jeyn Roberts

#5. You can study a face all you want, but you never really know what lies beneath the mask.

Tess Gerritsen

#6. We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal and collective empowerment, personal growth, communion with this world, and the search for what lies beneath and above this world.

Peter London

#7. Truth be told, I've seen ye watching me, staring. Your eyes tell me what ye are thinking." When she stiffened, he leaned in closer. "I think ye wonder what lies beneath my kilt. If ye ask me nicely, mayhap I'll show ye. But ye'll have to say please.

Victoria Roberts

#8. The past is an immense area of stony ground that many people would like to drive across as if it were a motorway, while others move patiently from stone to stone, lifting each one because they need to know what lies beneath.

Jose Saramago

#9. Archaeologists only look at what lies beneath their feet. The sky and the heavens don't exist for them.

Agatha Christie

#10. It was then that I came to an important realization:as long as someone is beautiful,thin,wealthy,fun-loving or talented,we are happy to accept him or her at face value.We are not ever taught to look for-or care about-what lies beneath the surface.

Na'ima B. Robert

#11. When there wasn't a lot of work, I wrote a screenplay, 'What Lies Beneath,' which got noticed and got me more acting jobs. As I got more jobs, I was able to make my own films. That ethos of making my own work has provided me with a lot of opportunities.

Clark Gregg

#12. Whenever I find myself in an exceptionally beautiful environment, I can't help asking myself - what lies beneath? I'm fascinated by the idea of a perfect surface concealing a rotten core.

Sharon Bolton

#13. Look around! Everything's rigid, hard, dark, what lies beneath it all? Something we don't understand. God's gone. Everything's gone.

Georg Buchner

#14. I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.

Tom Waits

#15. One day I will know the face of love...it shall gaze back at me from a pool of water, undisturbed by what lies beneath.

Susan D. Taylor

#16. Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#17. Eli had learned long ago that you can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface.

Jodi Picoult

#18. But you see, the problem is that apologies are really just little weeds that grow over monuments and headstones. They keep coming back, but never stop ruining what lies beneath. If an apology is truly authentic, the pain is supposed to stop. Right?

Elizabeth L. Silver

#19. A man's face is the surface of a pond, reflecting the sky, reflecting the trees, reflecting whatever is the object of his gaze and his love, the reflection hiding his depths. But when the wave passes, in the swell, for an instant, you can see what lies beneath the waters.

Brent Weeks

#20. And taking her friend's hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman's heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it.

Guy De Maupassant

#21. Murky thoughts, like murky waters, can serve two purposes only: to hide what lies beneath, which is our ignorance, or to make the shallow seem deep

Giulio Tononi

#22. What lies beneath this envelope of flesh and blood, hmm? Is it something special? Perhaps, when I peel it open, I will be able to see. Perhaps your screams will tell me everything I need to know.

Julie Kagawa

#23. There is potential for boundless good in the boy I knew. Trust that the man you see now is a shadow of what lies beneath. If you would, give him the love that will enable him to see it for himself. To a lost soul, such a treasure is worth its weight in gold. Worth its weight in dreams.

Renee Ahdieh

#24. The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.

Andy Goldsworthy

#25. The symbologist made a cryptic sign. That remains to be seen, as the cat said who voided into the sugar bowl.

Jack Vance

#26. Life is about looking beneath the surface and seeing what lies beyond appearances. That

Connor Franta

#27. I understand what lies hidden beneath beguiling words. I understand the trap beneath extravagant words. I understand the deceit beneath depraved words. And I understand the weariness beneath evasive words.

Mencius

#28. What lies there. Hidden underneath. Beneath all the understanding, the goodwill. We do not disturb it.

Merethe Lindstrom

#29. Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look.

Christine Pelosi

#30. The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.

Meredith Hall

#31. Like" and "like" and "like"
but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

Virginia Woolf