Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.
True love will not brook reserve; it feels undervalued and outraged, when even the sorrows of those it loves are concealed from it.
I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.
The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.
Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.
The itinerary of most antiquities from their source - tomb, temple, quarry - to the shelves of museums or private collectors is murky and often purposely concealed.
Torch songs are confessions. They are an expression of feeling that cannot be concealed or contained or minimized. They are marked by anguish, yes, but also by yielding.
God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.
One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.
Perhaps the little Negro girl was holding a concealed razor blade. Maybe she was one of the troublemakers out for a fresh white scalp.
Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time
Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret?
But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.
Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.
Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.
I believe it is the photographer's function to reveal that which is concealed, even if it be repugnant to the majority, not merely to record what we see around us.
My job as attorney general has been, in regard to guns, to have oversight in regard to concealed-carry licenses.
The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it.
My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit.
Giving someone the freedom to take responsibility releases resources that would otherwise remain concealed.
An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
Remember, you are moving toward a lifetime commitment. Whatever is concealed now will eventually be revealed.
Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.
There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.
It is my understanding that some groups who are opposed to visiting our campus are basing their decision on Liberty's concealed carry policy.
Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness.
[Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae
Celata virtus.]
I'm consistently on record and will continue to be on record as opposing concealed carry.
National legislation will prevent other states' flawed concealed-weapons laws from threatening the safety of Illinois residents.
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
The most crazed religious fanatic argues in more calm and reasoned tones than liberals responding to statistics on concealed-carry permits.
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.
The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.
If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.
Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible, while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets.
Concealed carry reciprocity is a dream for the gun lobby lobbyists and a nightmare for public safety.
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.
A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.
In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless.
Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence.
True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone.
The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.
The memory is like orbiting twin stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.
The requirements to obtain a concealed license are similar and often times stricter than that of obtaining a standard ID card.
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leporous.
The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.
Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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