Quotes and Sayings About Veils
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Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion
-- Aamir Khan -
Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.
-- Aaron Hill -
The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind veils of corporate secrecy.
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
-- Alexander Pope -
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
-- Alexander Pope -
We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.
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Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!
-- Alexander Smith -
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
-- Alfred Nobel -
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The sovereigns of the earth do not always grant audience readily; on the contrary, the King of Heaven, hidden under the eucharistic veils, is ready to receive anyone...
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
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You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.
-- Andrew SolomonSource : Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.129, Simon and Schuster
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You are at home when you're at a Black Veil Brides concert.
-- Andy Biersack -
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UNNATURAL CAUSES tears back the veil to show the socio-economic and racial inequities in health as well as the public policies that underpin them. Should be required viewing.
-- Andy Stern -
Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.
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Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits
-- Antonio MachadoSource : Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press
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Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another thing, he sees through the veil of his preconception, he criticizes before he has apprehended, he condemns without allowing his instinct the chance of asserting itself.
-- Arthur SymonsSource : Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”
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The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.
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All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.
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The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
-- Bill Vaughan -
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind
-- Bridget Riley -
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The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The reality is we live in a world of scarce resources in this veil of tears, as Tony Abbott often describes the world, we have to be real, we have to accept that we can't spend as much money on everything as we would like and so we have chosen to re prioritise, to change spending.
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We are spirits clad in veils.
-- Christopher Pearse CranchSource : Christopher Pearse Cranch, “Gnosis”
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We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.
-- Christopher Pearse CranchSource : Christopher Pearse Cranch (1844). “Poems”, p.51
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We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.
-- Conor McPherson -
Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.
-- David IckeSource : David Icke (1998). “The Biggest Secret”, David Icke Books
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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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Sherrill On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.
-- Douglas Horton -
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
-- E. B. White -
The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.
-- Edgar Allan Poe