Veil Quotes
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There, they tell me to wear the veil. Here, they are telling me to put my hips in a little girl's skirt, and I am this lovely full woman. You've got this Ph.D. and you're worrying, 'Am I skinny enough?'
Fatema Mernissi -
I am drawn to those parts; I like the tough girls because they are not tough. It's a veil; it's a disguise. It's defenses. At the core, everybody is human, everybody is fragile, everybody is terrified, and the fear is what propels you to be tough.
Tatiana Maslany
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Take that veil from off of your eyes, look into the future of realize.
Bob Marley -
Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.
Antonio Machado -
I thank the Lord that I may have passed some of the tests, but maybe there will have to be more before I shall have been polished to do all that the Lord would have me do. Sometimes when the veil has been very thin, I have thought that if the struggle had been still greater that maybe then there would have been no veil.
Harold B. Lee -
A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
Alexandre Dumas -
Says the girl dressed up in formal Goth mourning," Shane said. "Seriously, who buys a black lace veil? You keep that on hand for special occasions, like prom and kid's birthdays?
Rachel Caine -
We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.
Alexander Rodchenko
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Men, forever tempted to lift the veil of the future-with the aid of computers or horoscopes or the intestines of sacrificial animals-have a worse record to show in these sciences than in almost any scientific endeavor.
Hannah Arendt -
Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
George William Russell -
I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.
Marilyn Monroe -
Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind; Veil upon veil will lift but there must be Veil upon veil behind.
Edwin Arnold -
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
Plutarch
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Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.
Gabriela Mistral -
Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.
Oscar Wilde -
Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil, Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown Of one whose hate is mask'd but to assail.
Lord Byron -
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
Novalis
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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew....
Robert Frost -
The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.
Jonathan Swift -
It’s hot under my veil, I have a headache, and I’m so ashamed. … Am I strong enough to keep going?
Nujood Ali