Quotes and Sayings About Covering
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I learned everything I ever need to know about questioning artful dodgers by covering the most artful of them all, Ronald Reagan. For Reagan, performance was as much a part of governing as understanding the details of the federal budget.
-- Andrea Mitchell -
Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what looks like cunning.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.
-- Bob Lewis -
I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
-- Carey Lowell -
Agence France Presse says the Communist Party doesn't endorse Barack Obama, but that's just the media covering for him again. Because they do endorse Obama.
-- Charles Foster Johnson -
Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.
-- Chris Argyris -
As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.
-- Dan Rather -
In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles.
-- Dennis Banks -
Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.
-- Dougray Scott -
Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles
-- Du Fu -
I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
-- Ed Bradley -
There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
-- Elon Musk -
The seed, swollen with moisture, burst asunder its covering of soil and out peers the blade of wheat, full of symbols. So faith, whose bosom is filled with goodly fruits, is a blade of praise.
-- Ephrem the Syrian -
What I believe is that we have this extraordinary spirit inside ourselves, which for me is our Buddha nature. I believe we are in the process of opening and getting closer and closer to our Buddha nature and stripping away all that is covering it. I don't think I'm going to end up meeting this one being up there or out there.
-- Eve Ensler -
My tattoos are like a scrapbook of my life. Sometimes you don't feel comfortable in your own skin, so covering it up with pictures helps
-- Frank Iero -
I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a shelter under…which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection
-- Frederick Douglass -
Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.
-- Geoff Mulgan -
With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks
-- Geraldo Rivera -
Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.
-- Giovanni Giocondo -
Life is so full of meaning and of purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find that earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage, then to claim it: that is all!
-- Giovanni Giocondo -
About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.
-- Howie Carr -
Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during a foresight exercise.
-- Jamais Cascio -
The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry.
-- James Hervey -
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
-- Jean Racine -
By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.
-- Jessica Savitch -
In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.
-- Jim Lehrer -
As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast.
-- Jo Bonner -
Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail.
-- John C. Calhoun -
We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.
-- John Calvin -
Most announcers play pattycake, pattycake with the players they're covering.
-- Johnny Miller