Reveal The Masked Quotes & Sayings

But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two. — Caitlin Thomas

Understand that religion, at least western versions of it, rests on a type of thinking called Revelation. This mode holds that truths concerning the workings of reality are hidden, masked by, through or behind a deity such that only a few privileged souls are able to see through the veil and "reveal" those truths. . . But (around 1600) revelation as a means of understanding began to be challenged by two other methods of differentiating truth from fallacy: Reason and Empiricism. — Thomas Daniel Nehrer

In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken.
[Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.] — Horace

I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow brain, could not bear much; he fancies that he has become a real man, and that I am his shadow. — Hans Christian Andersen

The businessman only wants two things said about his company-what he pays his public relations people to say and what he pays his advertising people to say. He doesn't like anybody ever to look above, beyond or over that. — Don Hewitt

Good authors worry about genres great authors don't. — Frank X. Gaspar

Language dazzles and deceives because it is masked by faces, because we see it emerging from the lips, because lips please and eyes beguile. But words on paper, black on white, reveal the naked soul. — Guy De Maupassant

You'd have to be kind of a bonehead not to feel pressure. — Caroline Polachek

Peter Rodrick was one of only around 4,000 men in the world qualified to land jets on a carrier after dark. — Stephen Rodrick

Everyone queue up!' Malfoy roared to the crowd. 'Harry Potter's giving out signed photos! — J.K. Rowling

We learn to create; we create to improve life and to teach. Creative ideas and creating are the essence of life. — Debasish Mridha

Now the Ariekei were learning to speak, and to think, and it hurt. — China Mieville

My roommate knocks on my door and I try not to move.
My heart is beating fast.
He knocks again and then leaves.
I win.
This is but one of the many victories I have exampled as a human among humans.
I have no equals.
My strength is unmatched. — Sam Pink

We will get thru this, together. You and I. Nothing will break us, ever. Not this. Do you hear me Jess? Nothing. We're Unbreakable. — Rebecca Shea