quotes about Cover Ups
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Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins.
-- Bob Dylan -
The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.
-- Bob Woodward -
Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.
-- Bobby Darin -
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Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it.
-- Dan B. AllenderSource : Dan B. Allender, Tremper Longman (1992). “Bold love”, NavPress Publishing Group
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With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.
-- David Hockney -
If you cannot be at ease with yourself when alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. You can be sure that the unease will then reappear in some other form within the relationship, and you will probably hold your partner responsible for it.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
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In the Mexico we want, there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity.
-- Enrique Pena Nieto -
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
-- Horace -
It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.
-- Howard Baker -
I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up.
-- Jeri Ryan -
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This is deeply disturbing. Congress provided loans to help businesses hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks, not to be used as an accounting gimmick to cover up this administration's failure to provide for small businesses.
-- John F. Kerry -
We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.
-- Joko Beck -
I like to wear sleeves because they cover up my arms.
-- Jordin Sparks -
At first a golfer excuses a dismal performance by claiming bad lies. With experience, he covers up with better ones.
-- Lee P. Brown -
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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
-- Margaret Cho -
A fundamental lesson on being fired: Never lie about it. People will know what you're saying is a cover-up for how you really feel - embarrassed, discouraged, and afraid.
-- Mika BrzezinskiSource : "Getting Fired And How It Teaches You To Be A Better Parent" by Mika Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
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Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless.
-- Nelson DeMille -
See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.
-- Oswald Chambers -
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Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.
-- Price Pritchett -
That's what God does. He doesn't try to cover up our flaws; He starts from scratch and makes us new.
-- Sharon JaynesSource : Sharon Jaynes (2007). “The Power of a Woman's Words”, p.80, Harvest House Publishers
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Are you not aware that my profession involves beating the living hell out of some poor-unfortunate wearing nothing more than a pair of green lycra knicks? I'm practically naked each time I step in the ring. But I tend to cover up my privates in public. No one likes ginger pubes.
-- Sheamus -
For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.
-- Thomas Huxley -
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As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.
-- Tom PetriSource : "Reaction to CIA leak indictments", www.cnn.com. October 28, 2005.
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They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.
-- Ursula Andress -
Those who gave the orders, oversaw the killings, and ordered the subsequent cover-up have yet to be arrested and prosecuted.
-- Victoria Nuland -
Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. Â And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie.Â
-- Wendelin Van Draanen -
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I was with Roy Thomas on a panel and he turned to me and said, "You know, your name is on the cover a magazine every month." I said, "Really?" He pulled out a copy of "Destroyer," and said, "If you cover up the DEST you've got Royer on the cover every month."
-- Mike Royer -
At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression.
-- Willis Regier -
As a result of overdiversification, their (active managers) returns get watered down. Diversification covers up ignorance. Active managers haven't done enough research into any of their companies. If managers have 200 positions, do you think they know what's going on at any one of those companies at this moment?
-- Bill Ackman -
The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak.
-- Roy Barnes -
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Another bigger problem is the fact that these incidents of police violence continue to occur because far too often the officers on the force rally around the one who committed the act of violence and, in this particular instance, may have engaged in a cover-up that itself should be prosecuted.
-- Hakeem JeffriesSource : Source: www.msnbc.com