Red Veil Quotes

#1. There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

John Updike

#2. His eyes kindled and a slight flush sprang into his thin cheeks. For an instant the veil had lifted upon his keen, intense nature, but for an instant only. When I glanced again his face had resumed that red-Indian composure which had made so many regard him as a machine rather than a man.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#3. My father realizes that he did okay with me. He did the best he could.

Sage Stallone

#4. It made you wonder: How much of our lives was just luck or good timing, and how much was actually choice? How could it be that tiny serendipitous events could change everything? And if lucky events could change everything, could minor mishaps have the same power?

Aditi Khorana

#5. Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

Garson Kanin

#6. The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure,

Philip Yancey

#7. Be content with no degree of sanctification. Be always crying out, "Lord, let me know more of myself and of thee."

George Whitefield

#8. The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes connected with the fortunes of the self, it forthwith becomes an interesting thing.

William James

#9. I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write.

Philippe Petit

#10. So much has been said between them that is is needless to add a marginal note. It is not for him now to gloss the text of their dealings, nor append a moral.

Hilary Mantel

#11. Sex is a sideshow in the world of the animal, for the dominant color of that world is fear.

Robert Ardrey

#12. There's nothing I really wanted to do in life that I wasn't able to get good at. That's my skill. I'm not really specifically talented at anything except for the ability to learn. That's what I do. That's what I'm here for.

Kanye West

#13. I look at his bloodshot eyes and wonder if it affects what he sees, everything covered by a veil of red lace that his hands can't ever lift.

Yannick Murphy

#14. I definitely spend the most money on shoes, partly because vintage footwear can be a little funky - in a bad way. I like to keep things pretty simple up top and then go weird with the shoes.

Chloe Sevigny

#15. We've got priests and prostitutes and a gay girl from Biloxi. Yep, just your average Christmas morning.

Lisa Desrochers

#16. They get a glimpse of red lips under a short veil, and exquisite little feet.

Leo Tolstoy

#17. There was such a thing as luck, but to acknowledge its existence was to hold two fingers up to fate.

Alistair MacLean