Covered Up Quotes

• Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered and every secret will be made known.

  Melina Marchetta

  Secret, Made, Known

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• Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Evil, Slavery, Segregation

  Sermon at Temple Israel of Hollywood, delivered 26 February 1965

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• Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Direct Action, Medicine, Light

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “Why we can't wait”

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• However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.

  Rollo May

  Fighting, May, Injustice

  "Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence". Book by Rollo May, Ch. 11 : The Humanity of the Rebel, 1972.

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• History can never be covered up.

  Zhu Rongji

  Covered

  "china.org" by Joe Klein, www.newyorker.com. April 23, 2001.

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• It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.

  Saint Augustine

  Catholic, Scandal, Truth Is

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• In various ways all of us should be constantly finding people and situations that are dead, buried, and covered up in order to help bring them to the light because THE GOD THAT WE SERVE is a God of LIGHT, a God of LOVE, and a God of CARING.

  Millard Fuller

  Caring, Light, Order

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• If I'm going to show cleavage or chest then I don't show leg. I show one thing. If I show leg then everything else is covered up.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Legs, Cleavage, Shows

  FaceBook post by Tracee Ellis Ross from Mar 19, 2013

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• When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Thinking, Futility Of Life

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• Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rock. You've got to work hard to get to them.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Ocean, Hard Work

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• But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it that the parts would each become a painting. I cannot properly explain it right now. Already now I am searching for the most boring and irrelevant photo material that I can find. And I would like to get to the point soon where this determined irrelevance could be retained, in favor of something that would be covered up otherwise by artifice.

  Gerhard Richter

  Photography, Cutting, Irrelevance

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• In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Live For Today, Ordinary, World

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• It looks like bribery. I mean,there is every appearance that Hillary Clinton was bribed to grease the sale of, what, 20 percent of America's uranium production to
  Russia, and then it was covered up by lying about a meeting with her home
  with the principals, and by erasing e-mails. And I presume we might know
  for sure whether there was or was not bribery if she hadn't wiped out
  you know, out thousands of e-mails.

  Jedediah Bila

  Lying, Mean, Home

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'm working on the Star Wars script today and the people in my office have covered up all my windows with black paper. I guess they wanted to make sure no one could see what I was doing. It seems rather extreme.

  J. J. Abrams

  Stars, War, Office

  "JJ Abrams: Hollywood's Renaissance man" by Horatia Harrod, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 25, 2014.

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• I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

  Isaac Rosenberg

  Strange, Consciousness, This Life

  Isaac Rosenberg (1979). “The collected works of Isaac Rosenberg: poetry, prose, letters, paintings, and drawings”

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• The footsteps a child follows are most likely to be the ones his parents thought they covered up.

  James Dobson

  Children, Parent, Footsteps

  James C. Dobson (2014). “The New Strong-Willed Child”, p.125, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• But this is Miami, you can't come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you're all covered up in this heat, you're gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It's sweaty in Miami - but the diamonds will keep me cool.

  Lil' Kim

  Skins, Looks, Miami

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People always expect Hulk Hogan to be standing up straight, or to have the bandanna on, or to not have my arms covered up. If I have an extra large shirt on people go 'oh yeah you look small.' It kind of ruins the mystique.

  Hulk Hogan

  People, Looks, Arms

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• Athletes often start life at the opposite end of the wealth and prestige spectrum, but as soon as they exhibit an unusual talent for swinging a bat or sinking a free-throw they may find that the rules have been suspended for them. They are waved through school and into the pros, and incidents of bad behavior are overlooked or covered up.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Athlete, School, Opposites

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• The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Body, Nudity

  Marilyn Monroe's handwritten note responding to a question about posing nude, as quoted in International Herald Tribune, October 5, 1984.

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• She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

  Christina Rossetti

  Beauty, Eye, Vanity

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.160, Delphi Classics

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• Policemen and security guards wear hats with a peak that comes down low over their eyes. Apparently this is for psychological reasons. Eyebrows are very expressive and you appear a lot more authoritative if you keep them covered up. The advantage of this is that it makes a lot harder for cops to see anything more than six foot off the ground. Which is why painting rooftops and bridges is so easy.

  Banksy

  Eye, Security Guards, Bridges

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? "For beauty," I replied. "And I for truth, the two are one; We brethren are," he said. And so, as kinsmen met a night, We talked between the rooms, Until the moss had reached our lips, And covered up our names.

  Emily Dickinson

  Night, Names, Two

  "I died for beauty but was scarce" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

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• Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)

  Edith Hamilton

  Heart, Fire, Flames

  Edith Hamilton (1969). “Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes”

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• All perfection is there already in the soul. But this perfection has been covered up by nature; layer after layer of nature is covering this purity of the soul.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfection, Soul, Layers

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.375, Manonmani Publishers

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