Top 70 Under The Rug Quotes
#1. I remember one thing that marred this time for me; the movie "Gone with the Wind." When it played in Mason [MI], I was the only Negro in the theater, and when Butterfly McQueen went into her act, I felt like crawling under the rug.
Malcolm X
#2. Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.
Neal Shusterman
#3. Bipolar disorder is so swept under the rug as a nation and, I think especially, by black people. It's not our culture to go get therapy. 'Give them medicine for what?' We put people in court, put them in court again, versus really paying attention to what it is they are going through.
Trai Byers
#4. Sometimes a moment of clarity shines so brightly, you have no choice but to walk into the light - or hide under the rug.
Cathryn Louis
#5. Don't brush anything under the rug. Don't point fingers or do the blame game. A team is a family, and we're in this together.
Erik Spoelstra
#6. Nobody would be riding a racist Wilhelmina golden coach today in The Hague if the Dutch hadn't swept unpleasant aspects of their history under the rug.
Dauglas Dauglas
#7. With Snorri troubles were always put front and centre and dealt with. My style was more to shove them under the rug until the floor got too uneven to navigate, and then to move house.
Mark Lawrence
#8. Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that science is everywhere; science is not something you can step around or sweep under the rug.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#9. Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
Bill Condon
#10. Theres a lot of churches that hide their dirty laundry under the rug, and I know about that from being in the church 27 years. Oh, yeah.
Al Green
#11. When honor and glory get your squad killed and your brothers-in-arms shoved under the rug, you stop believing in the terms.
Katherine McIntyre
#12. It's up to comedians to shine the light on what's wrong in the world, and we don't want things swept under the rug.
Jeff Ross
#13. The immiseration of the majority is an integral part of the Free World package for the Third World, the unsavory aspects of the package - the terror, the direct spoilation of people and resources, and western complicity - must be rationalized and, as far as possible, kept under the rug.
Edward S. Herman
#14. If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.
Garet Garrett
#15. I feel like we are so much more comfortable sweeping things under the rug and putting on a brave face, and to me, sweeping under the rug is a coward move, not a brave move at all. I want to get out there and have a conversation.
AnnaLynne McCord
#16. So yeah, maybe this will be the rest of our lives. Pot roast and Diet Cokes and my parents making eyes at each other. As for those slaps and punches and hateful words, we'll just sweep those under the rug or wherever they can go.
Travis Thrasher
#17. In many instances, we are much better at fixing our mistakes after we've made them. In some situations, it is easier to sweep things under the rug and forget about them.
Dave Matthews
#18. For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.
Potter Stewart
#19. I'm trying to show you how much I care, that your dreams mean something to me! They're not things to be swept under the rug or given lip service. They fucking matter, Libby. You matter.
Kristen Callihan
#20. There comes a point when you can only sweep so much under the rug, 'til you feel lumps under your feet and your path seems to become less ccomfortable.
Stuart J. Scesney
#21. The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.
Russell Simmons
#22. I do my best to allow myself to really feel it [emotional pain]. Cry. Get all in it. Really experience my experience so that I may move through it. And talk about it. I try not to let anything get brushed over and swept under the rug.
Dash Mihok
#23. As life progresses, baggage can accumulate. For a while, things can be swept under the rug, but the wait of unfinished business eventually catches up.
Paul Gibbons
#24. Some of the things I'm talking about are very taboo and swept under the rug. As far as suicide and depression and alcoholism and stuff like that. Our community doesn't believe in therapy, they believe in dealing with it.
Stacy Barthe
#25. The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug.
Jim Garrison
#26. Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.
James P. Hoffa
#27. I think honesty is the ultimate liberation in life. People want to shy away from the truth and keep sweeping it under the rug. But after a while, you pick up the rug and there's just way too much dirt, so you might as well
just be up front about it.
Rihanna
#28. Giving more to women will, to some extent, come at the expense of men. People sometimes try to sweep that under the rug by saying you will create so much additional resources that everyone will be better off. I don't think that's true.
Esther Duflo
#29. Lets not push it under the rug, or push it to the side because, no matter what, it's going to keep coming up. You know, if you never deal with that dirt up under the carpet, it's going to get larger and larger, and it's going to keep coming up.
Herschel Walker
#30. Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.
Max Lucado
#31. I guess I have no choice
But to toss all novels under the rug
Nothing can compete with the poetry bug
Maddy Kobar
#32. There's a lot of glorification of startups and being a founder. People brush the failures under the rug, but that's the worst thing you can do. You kind of have to face it head on.
Christopher Poole
#33. It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.
Nate Parker
#34. I've been sleepwalking again, my dear. / The plants are moving under the rug.
Stephen King
#35. I'm from a fancy, well-raised background. We were very well-behaved and not allowed to swear. It's the kind of place where people hide their problems under the rug and pretend it's all perfect. Eventually, you get sick of that.
Tove Lo
#36. Lift the rug of your subconscious and sweep all the dirt under. Good-bye.
Stephen King
#37. Aaahh. Home. My place, my smells, my familiar rug under my feet, my kitchen, my Curran in the kitchen chair ... Wait a damn minute.
Ilona Andrews
#38. Three factors
the belief that child care is female work, the failure of ex-husbands to support their children, and higher male wages at work
have taken the economic rug from under that half of married women who divorce.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#39. I think I've changed my business strategy every year since 2003. You have to be watching the horizon constantly. The rug has been pulled out from under our feet so many times.
John Allison
#40. Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on the shifting carpet.
Thomas Crum
#41. Under the night rug, the star rug, moon as lantern, man in the moon watching over us, dog star at his heels, we lay.
Jeanette Winterson
#42. The problem with taking your happy pills and puttering along as before is that it's no better than sweeping dirt under the carpet. I want you to take that rug out back and beat the hell out of it.
Julie Holland
#43. I didn't have a strong male figure in my life on a day-to-day basis. So I think that whole [marriage] situation, a lot of it stems from a place where I was out there alone as a really and I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me.
Mariah Carey
#44. So really, it was just as well that Godmother had caught up to me, in spite of my best efforts to avoid her. I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex. -Harry
Jim Butcher
#45. Even thinking about heading up there again made my heart thump harder; it took nothing for me to recall that sense of the world disappearing from beneath me, like a rug pulled from under my feet
Jojo Moyes
#46. The polished oak floors reflected the light of the overhead crystal chandelier and gleaned under the plush deep red Persian rug.
Robin R. Murphy
#47. You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.
Peter Berg
#48. The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.
Cal Thomas
#49. Stability is the number one thing you need to be successful in anything. I constantly had the rug pulled out from under me. I think people were jealous of me. I think people saw me as this guy who could conquer the world.
Mark Schultz
#51. I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.
Mariah Carey
#52. I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex.
Jim Butcher
#53. Tension fled from me. Tomorrow I would worry about Hugh d'Ambray and Andrea and
Roland, but now I was simply happy. Aaahh. Home. My place, my smells, my familiar rug under my feet, my kitchen, my Curran in the kitchen chair ... Wait a damn minute.
You!
Ilona Andrews
#54. Fight. Life had effectively pulled the rug, the flooring, and the fucking planet from under my feet.
Winters, Pepper (2014-03-06). Destroyed (p. 3). Pepper Winters. Kindle Edition.
Pepper Winters
#55. People would pull the rug out from under me. So I learnt how to dance on a moving carpet.
Wayne Dyer
#56. The Vajrayana is the path of the rug being pulled out from under your feet, so you need someone who knows how to do that.
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
#57. I felt like a rug had been pulled from under my feet, my head hit hard on the floor and the pain vibrated through my body.
Kavipriya Moorthy
#58. For every Aruna story we hear there are hundreds of thousands that will never be heard, swept under the great rug of shame societies have so eloquently woven. It is up to us to speak up, to lift this heavy rug and reveal the ugliness it conceals.
Aysha Taryam
#59. I'm very happy and being raised Catholic I assume it will end tomorrow. The rug will be pulled out from under me and someone will say, now go to your real job, shoveling poop somewhere.
Joel McHale
#60. Steve smiled, the rug not only pulled out from under him but rolled up and put away.
Heidi Cullinan
#61. Most spiritual experiences begin with suffering. They begin with groundlessness. They begin when the rug has been pulled out from under us.
Pema Chodron
#62. I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.
Trey Anastasio
#63. Love", I said, "is the rug they pull out from under you. Love is Lucy always lifting the football at the last second so that Charlie Brown falls on his ass. Love is something that every time you believe in it, it goes away. Love is for suckers, and I'm not going to be a sucker ever again.
Jennifer Weiner
#64. If your happiness depends on someone else, all they have to do is pull the rug out from under you and you're miserable.
Lawrence Crane
#65. Still laughing but with the same sorrow she had felt when a hitherto perfectly nice cabbie began to tell her that all the Jews in the first tower has been warned beforehand or that you can't trust Mexicans not to steal the rug from under your feet or that more roads were built under Stalin ...
Zadie Smith
#66. Nature is always pulling the rug out from under our pompous ideals.
Camille Paglia
#67. Kremlin political intrigues are comparable to a bulldog fight under a rug. An outsider only hears the growling, and when he sees the bones fly out from beneath it is obvious who won.
Winston S. Churchill
#68. The look in her eyes told me that under any other circumstances, I would either already be naked with her on top of me, or lying in a pool of my own blood on the rug.
Christina Lauren
#69. Having the rug pulled from under one, and flying magic carpets -- cousin events?
Leslie Miklosy
#70. It's the wrong time for us to be pulling the rug out from under American exporters.
Rob Portman
