Quotes about veil
veils sun needs
Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly. Friedrich Schiller
veils mystery edges
I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner. Louis Pasteur
veils planning sheets
I do not have a bride gene. I haven't been planning a wedding since I was 3. I never put a sheet on my head and pretended that it was a veil. Niecy Nash
veils plastic surgery
Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil. Nawal El Saadawi
veils truth-is secrecy
Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil. R. D. Laing
veils raised mortals
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised. Plutarch
veils arms opinion
[Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of established opinions, he could not wonder that all the zealots were in arms against him. David Hume
veils
The veil of money has never been about how much money you have but about how much money has you. Aiden Wilson Tozer
veils events moments
Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside. Elie Wiesel
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Necessity is God's veil. Simone Weil
veils again-and-again
When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was. Rumi
veils deals creatures
All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us. Martin Luther
veils faces glimpse
Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils. Jeffrey Eugenides
veils way irony
I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way. Florence Welch
veils rooms helping
[Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind. Jerzy Kosinski
veils action illusion
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion. Friedrich Nietzsche
veils rich myth
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
veils confession secrecy
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed. Bill Vaughan
veils midnight strange
Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin. Harriet Beecher Stowe
veils body impossible
The ban would apply to the full-body veil known as the burqa or niqab. This is not an article of clothing — it is a mask, a mask worn at all times, making identification or participation in economic and social life virtually impossible. Jean-Francois Cope
veils ill wells
In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill. Francis Thompson
veils faces eternity
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