Covered Quotes

• A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Political, Politics

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Soil, Moveable Feast

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• She felt dirty all over and looking over Sebastian, sweat on his brow and his naked torso barely covered by the sheets, she had to swallow back bile at what she'd just done.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dirty, Sweat, Naked

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• It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Birthday, Real, Men

  Sartor Resartus ch. 4 (1838)

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• At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

  Andre Gide

  Birthday, Real, Wrinkles

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.286, Routledge

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• Satan never wastes a fiery dart on an area covered in armor.

  Beth Moore

  Christian Inspirational, Armor, Waste

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• That one man scorned and covered with scars
  Still strove with his last ounce of courage
  To reach the unreachable star.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Courage, Stars

  "Fictional character: Miguel de Cervantes". "Man of La Mancha", 1965.

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• I like crazy, childlike, candy bar-filled cakes with gooey caramel, chocolate-covered nuts, marshmallows, and the like.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Wedding, Crazy, Nuts

  "Wedding Cakes: Designer Ron Ben Israel Talks Money-Saving Tricks, Fresh Flavor Ideas, and More!" by Meredith Bodgas, www.glamour.com. July 19, 2010.

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• I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me throw and covered my birthdate, would age be an issue?

  Randy Johnson

  Tired, Numbers, Issues

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• Inside we are all Golden Buddha's, but we grew to believe we were made of clay. Our ego's false perceptions led us to grow into a belief system that covered our inner light. We've spent years, maybe decades, masking our truth. Now it's time to embrace our light and reconnect with our Golden Buddha within.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Believe, Light, Years

  Gabrielle Bernstein (2013). “May Cause Miracles: A 6-week Kick-start to Unlimited Happiness”, p.242, Hay House, Inc

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• It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said, Isn’t it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn’t playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Cute, Kids, Angel

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• The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all fields of vice. Its justification by logical method as well as by precepts and examples only makes vice more horrible in effect, both for degenerate and normal beings

  Iwan Bloch

  Vices, Principles, Example

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• Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are are then prepared to ignore them until the spring. I am quite sure that a garden doesn't like to be ignored like this. It doesn't like to be covered in dust sheets, as though it were an old room which you had shut up during the winter. Especially since a garden knows how gay and delightful it can be, even in the very frozen heart of the winter, if you only give it a chance.

  Beverley Nichols

  Spring, Heart, Gay

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• The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Issues, Each Day, Labor

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.98, Vintage

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• On the hob was a little brass kettle, hissing and boiling; spread upon the floor was a warm, thick rug; before the fire was a folding-chair, unfolded and with cushions on it; by the chair was a small folding-table, unfolded, covered with a white cloth, and upon it were spread small covered dishes, a cup and saucer, and a tea-pot; on the bed were new, warm coverings, a curious wadded silk robe, and some books. The little, cold, miserable room seemed changed into Fairyland. It was actually warm and glowing.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Book, White, Fire

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “Racketty-Packetty House and Other Stories”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

  Daniel Schorr

  Trying, Sake, Needed

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• Two-thirds of the Earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.

  Ralph Kiner

  Two, Water, Earth

  "Ralph Kiner, New York Mets Broadcaster, Dies at 91" by Mike Barnes, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 6, 2014.

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• For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment.

  Richard Leakey

  Water, Needs, Layers

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• I once said, "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent." When Bobby Jindal entered the Republican campaign, my comment should have been covered again, more prominently. I mean, Jindal is not Native American, he's a real Indian.

  Joe Biden

  Real, Mean, Native American

  "Chris Wallace Interviews Joe Biden: A Retrospective". Interview with Chris Wallace, spectator.org. October 22, 2015.

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• For too long, reporters for the big media outlets have been fixated on novelty, always moving too quickly onto the next big score or the next hot get. Paradoxically, in these days of instant communication and sixty-minute news cycles, it's actually easier to miss information we might otherwise pay attention to. That's why we need stories to be covered and re-covered until they filter up enough to become part of the cultural bloodstream.

  Arianna Huffington

  Moving, Communication, Sixty Minutes

  "Arianna Huffington: Measuring Success Based on a Third Metric". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I don't really know. I think the first test is when you're very little and you fart, and you laugh at it and so do your friends and family. I knew before I was funny I was very annoying so I have that covered. I think it was because I was not very good in school I used humor as a defense mechanism. When I started doing plays and stuff at school I decided that I was going to keep doing it until someone tells me to stop and get a real job.

  Joel McHale

  Jobs, Real, School

  "Tribute talks to Spy Kids star Joel McHale". Interview with Alexandra Heilbron, www.tribute.ca. August 8, 2011.

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• I also remember riding home from a wonderful day with only my bathing shorts, losing the chain of my bicycle, having no hand breaks, and slipping high speed on a street covered with stones. I had to go to the hospital.

  Volker Bertelmann

  Home, Hands, Slipping

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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

  Covered Up, Strange, Consciousness

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

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• I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?

  Ed McBain

  Real, Media, Ideas

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• The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry
  wood, and her children gazing on;
  The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the
  fence, blowing and covered with sweat,
  The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck,
  The murderous buckshot and the bullets,
  All these I feel or am.

  Walt Whitman

  Mother, Children, Sweat

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.46, St. Martin's Press

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