Zitat des Tages über Verbergen / Concealing:
Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative footstep, and whether the temporary but complete blindness suffered while running toward headlights was, in fact, concealing death.
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.
I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying, it is about concealing. I like flawed characters that people relate to. I would never do a romcom.
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Originality is the art of concealing your source.
The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.
Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good.
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.
Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
