Quotes about Concealment
Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze? A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze.
- Victor Hugo
God is behind all things, but all things conceal God. Objects are black and humans are opaque. To love a person is to render them transparent
- Victor Hugo
Théodule was, we think we have mentioned, the favourite of Aunt Gillenormand, who preferred him because she did not see him. Not seeing people permits us to imagine in them every perfection.
- Victor Hugo
Why does Alexander the Great never tell us about the exact location of his tomb, Fermat about his Last Theorem, John Wilkes Booth about the Lincoln assassination conspiracy, Hermann Göring about the Reichstag fire? Why don't Sophocles, Democritus, and Aristarchus dictate their lost books?
- Carl Sagan
A mask partially conceals, but it also tells us that something is behind the mask.
- Gary Thomas
Sin never seems quite as shocking when it is known only to us; when we see how it looks or sounds to another, it is magnified ten times over.
- Gary Thomas
We conceal, but God wants to heal, and to do that, He must first expose.
- Gary Thomas
I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.
- LeBron James
He was searching for words to name his meaning without naming it, she thought, to make her understand that which he did not want to be understood.
- Ayn Rand
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Soli, let me tell you. The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.
- Barbara Kingsolver
There seemed to be no end to the things that could be hiding, waiting it out, right where you thought you could see it all.
- Barbara Kingsolver