“ Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. ”
- Willem de Kooning- Copy
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“ There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories. ”
- Madame Chiang Kai Shek- Copy
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“ What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding The passion for the hidden — the passion for the revealed. ”
- Marina Tsvetaeva- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Abraham Maslow- Copy
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“ The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information. ”
- Alan Perlis- Copy
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“ Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians… To me, that's sexy! ”
- Kevin Costner- Copy
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“ The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ To hide a passion totally is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other. ”
- Roland Barthes- Copy
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“ The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ”
- Erma Bombeck- Copy
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“ Although I've always metaphorically, and not so metaphorically, been a little vampiric ghost-girl hiding in a coffin, somewhere in my subliminal mind I was cognizant of the fact that I was going to have to open the crypt and let my words, my secrets, be made public. ”
- Kim Elizabeth- Copy
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“ How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.' This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don't want this to happen to 2001. ”
- Stanley Kubrick- Copy
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“ When I read the script of Chandler, I thought WOW I can really shake hands with this guy. Chandlers a sarcastic guy, dry, funny - a guy who's not comfortable unless he's joking and hiding the emotional stuff that's going on with him. And Yeah, I can relate to that a bit. ”
- Matthew- Copy
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“ Want to know if a given behavior is a soft addiction? If any of these characteristics apply, chances are it is: zoning out, avoiding feelings, compulsiveness, denial/rationalization, stinking thinking, and hiding or lying about the behavior. ”
- Judith Wright- Copy
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“ If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement. ”
- Antonio Gramsci- Copy
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“ There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well… ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine… ”
- Og Mandino- Copy
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“ I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives… ”
- Anne Frank- Copy
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