Concealment Mystery Quotes & Sayings

Bagel in the morning is the ultimate breakfast for me; they're just good. — Lee DeWyze

I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world. — Michael C. Hall

Only once did Lori glimpse such an entity, supine on a mattress in the corner of its boudoir. It was naked, corpulent and sexless, its sagging body a motley of dark, oily skin and larval eruptions that seeped phosphorescence, soaking its simple bed. — Clive Barker

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust. — Elton John

Open your eyes and live. — Rebecca Donovan

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests. — Samuel Gompers

I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars and bright-painted red-and-yellow streetcars and white buildings. — E.L. Doctorow

As a writer, the most important thing for me is to continue to write, no matter where I am. — Bei Dao

I do not want anyone to get close to me, I do not want anyone to see me, and this is the way things have developed: no one gets close and no one sees me. — Karl Ove Knausgard

misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. — Alexandre Dumas

To our three levels of complicating alienation we must add the fundamental distinction or break between God and humankind, between Creator and creature. That "division" is no tragedy, but part and parcel of our identity and God's grandeur. It must be accounted for in the mystery of God, who reveals himself to us as we can bear it: revelation invariably involves concealment, since God is God and we are not. The communion that he forges with us remains a tantalizing "mystery" that leads us to know more and more of him, but never in completion - and at this, we wonder! As Kallistos Ware puts it, where knowledge of God is concerned, "The eyes are closed - but they are also opened" (The Orthodox Way, p. 15). — Edith M. Humphrey

When you're young it's easy to confuse passion for love. — Lisa Unger

I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best promise of administering the government in the honest, simple, and plain manner which is consistent with its character and purposes. They have learned that mystery and concealment in the management of their affairs cover tricks and betrayal. The statesmanship they require consists in honesty and frugality, a prompt response to the needs of the people as they arise, and a vigilant protection of all their varied interests. — Grover Cleveland

By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never. — Jean De La Fontaine

That may have been how they survived, Kira realizes: thanks to their ability not to fall apart at the same time. — Fredrik Backman