A Quote by Cosima Spender

The Palio is shrouded in mystery and secrecy, and the players can't discuss their devious schemes.

Cosima Spender

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Cosima Spender

A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.

Lord Chesterfield

Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.

Harrison Salisbury

I think coaches are very much guilty of trying to implement players into their schemes as opposed as trying to fit schemes into players. That's the thing that can separate good coaches from bad.

Bill Cowher

I would like people to feel that they've understood something more about Siena than the usual Palio as seen by tourists. It is full of beauty, romance and tradition, but also power, schemes and bribery. It's Italy in a nutshell, with all its incredible mixture of beauty and betrayal.

Cosima Spender

The secrecy that shrouded the vote counting by the special election committee cast doubts on the results and lacks transparency.

Hosni Mubarak

I went for an audition, which was shrouded in all kinds of secrecy to keep the storyline under wraps, and 5 days later I was in Atlanta and 700 years older.

Lauren Cohan

I like places that are shrouded in mystery.

Nick Mohammed

Growth hacking isn't some proprietary technical process shrouded in secrecy. In fact, it has grown and developed in the course of very public conversations. There are no trade secrets to guard.

Ryan Holiday

Beauty is necessarily shrouded in mystery--which is part of its splendour.

Thomas Dubay

Ultrasound is instrumental in the fight against abortion precisely because it allows women to make an informed choice by shedding light in a place which, for most of its history, has been shrouded in secrecy.

Eric Metaxas

Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and tired librarians. Like everything of importance since the invention of the cloak and the shroud, its origins are cloaked in mystery and shrouded in secrecy. Some scholars believe that the first instance of book burning occurred in the Middle Ages, when a monk was trying to illuminate a manuscript. All agree that book burning was almost non-existent during the period when books were made of stone.

Richard Armour

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.

Michael Stipe

Nicholas Parsons' time at the University of Glasgow seems to be absolutely shrouded in mystery.

Derek Nimmo

Writing should be an adventure, shrouded in mystery and uncertainty, blessed with amazing grace. In theory, of course

Syd Field

The problem is that the American public is suspicious of executive power shrouded in secrecy. In the absence of an official picture of what our government is doing, and by what authority, many in the public fill the void by envisioning the worst.