History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
We Are Bulletproof: The Eternal’ demonstrates that we will keep going despite the difficulties. It reveals our ego.
Hemingway’s short story ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ is a classic of its kind. It illustrates Hemingway’s ‘iceberg theory,’ which requires that a story find its effectiveness by hiding more than it reveals.
A signature always reveals a man’s character – and sometimes even his name.
Action is only really compelling when it reveals character – character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.
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.
Our experience shows – and survey after survey reveals – institutions are run better, communities are healthier when women are involved in solving the challenges of our society. Equal representation does not just lead to good democracy: it is democracy.
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
The loneliest, most down-on-his-luck person can have a dog who adores him. The most bitter, sour person can light up with joy when he sees his dog. It is magical, and as ‘The Dog Master’ reveals, it is biological – we evolved together.
Instead of blaming victimization on the victims, the Gospels blame it on the victimizers. What the myths systematically hide, the Bible reveals.
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
Every game reveals exactly where you are. We should have a good understanding after every game why we either won or lost that game.
There’s something exciting about weekly strips in that you’re following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it’s a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.
I think a Christian definition of the mind should be: an openness to whatever the individual and collective mind reveals to us.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Despite popular belief, Bitcoin is a bad medium of exchange for people that value financial privacy because of the transparent ledger that reveals an address, timestamp, and amount for every transaction on the network.
For me, when I ‘discover’ a story, there is a feeling of buoyancy and clarity, perhaps similar to early morning out on a prairie highway, when darkness lifts and reveals the outline of farmhouses and copses of trees in the distance.
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
Working on ‘Drive’, a lot of fun. This is Tim Minear whom I’ve worked with before on ‘Firefly’ of course. He called me up and said, ‘I’ve got a part for you that you will love,’ and I love Tim’s writing. I love his stories. I love his characters, his dialogue. He has a knack for reveals and he has a knack for moments.
I say you don’t need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.
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.
As a person, I’m not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.
The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
An evening dress that reveals a woman’s ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough, what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.
Although we may think we’re masking our insecurities or portraying ourselves in the most favorable light, our behavior on social media reveals more than we might think. It’s not just what we post on Facebook that reveals information about our personalities – it’s also what we don’t post that can be quite telling.
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide.
I think we forget that part of parenthood means having to face and reject or face and embrace a kind of animal capacity for unkindness. And if, when, parents do embrace that, it reveals something very ugly to oneself.
This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you’re harboring them yourself.
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn’t interested any longer. That’s very astonishing.
Watching somebody sing reveals a lot about character.
Harvey Weinstein reveals how the most powerful men in this country have tendrils in to every kind of institution.
I like examining the ordinary, and by doing so, one hopefully reveals the extraordinary nature within.
Indulgence in frivolous speech not only reveals one’s lack of moral character, but it deprives him of good qualities also.
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
I didn’t realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It’s not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself.
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag’s fundamental nature.
Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.
Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I’m pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.
I run an academy in Spain for young footballers who are released by their clubs and who, in my opinion, deserve a second chance. It is a rewarding job for me, but one that also reveals many of the faults in the English game.
You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
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