#reveals

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#autobiography #bad #except #his #memory

Every now and then, President Obama sorta drops his veil. He's less coy about his philosophy, he sort of reveals his true governing philosophy, what he really believes. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#believes #drops #every #governing #his

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#himself #his #man #objects #reveals

The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment. ↗

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#amendment #ban #coverage #defense #department

How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#any #battle #campaigns #character #heat

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives. ↗

— Vincent Canby

#experience #feeling #fiction #good #importance

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress. ↗

— John Berger

#condemned #display #dress #form #itself

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. ↗

— Robert Caro

#absolute #absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #always

If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#been #disintegration #experiment #fact #found

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#brings #conversation #dearly #essentials #how