Quotes with reveal

  • Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
  • Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.
  • The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
  • I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.
  • Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
  • Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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  • Henry David Thoreau How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • James Allen Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • R. Brooke Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
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  • John Wooden Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Solomon Ibn Gabirol Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
    Solomon Ibn Gabirol
    Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher (1021 - 1058)
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  • George F. Will A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel America is, therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's history shall reveal itself. It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of Old Europe.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstanding and reveal themselves in exceptional achievements, their possessor is called a 'genius'.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Aldous Huxley At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as ''nymphets.''
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Anne Hutchinson But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Carlos Fuentes Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Leonard Cohen Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • George Washington Carver I didn't make these discoveries... God has only worked through me to reveal to His children some of His wonderful providence.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Bruce Greenwood I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.
    Bruce Greenwood
    Canadian actor and producer (1956 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran If you reveal your secret to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Ovid In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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