#veil

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become. ↗

— Brooke Foss Westcott

#cowards #crisis #eyes #great #grow

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#fiction #filtered #food #i #liquor

My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz. ↗

— Georgina Chapman

#clips #designed #diamond #hair #home

It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance. ↗

— Jack Vance

#creature #limit #office #seems #small

The best proof of the high quality of American beef is the continued negative BSE findings supported by the highest surveillance possible. The administration should be working to increase our surveillance of BSE, not scaling it back. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#american #back #beef #best #bse

Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#fall #happened #out #over #presently

I think we're probably only about halfway through the number of revelations. I'm pretty certain there will be quite detailed stuff on other uses of covert surveillance. I suspect that emails will be the next scandal. And devices that track people moving around. That's just starting to come out. ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#around #certain #come #covert #detailed

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#advanced #been #bewilderment #changed #exhilaration

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces. ↗

— William Gurnall

#humility #necessary #other #veil

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#going #hiding #long #people #religion