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

  Saint Augustine

  Covered Up, Catholic, Scandal

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will remember you in that. And we both see it has our job to make District 12 tributes unforgettable,' says Cinna. I'll be naked for sure, I think. 'So rather than focus on the coal mining itself, we're going to focus on the coal,' says Cinna. Naked and covered in black dust, i think. 'And what do we do with coal? We burn it,' says Cinna. 'You're not afraid of fire, are you, Katniss?' He sees my expression and grins.

  Suzanne Collins

  Jobs, Thinking, Fire

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• The trees bathed their great heads in the waves of the morning, while their roots were planted deep in gloom; save where on the borders of the sunshine broke against their stems, or swept in long streams through their avenues, washing with brighter hue all the leaves over which it flowed; revealing the rich brown of the dacayed leaves and fallen pine-cones, and the delicate greens of the long grasses and tiny forests of moss that covered the channel over which it passed in the motionless rivers of light.

  George MacDonald

  Morning, Sunshine, Light

  George Macdonald (2013). “The Princess Treasury”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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• Something inside me shuts down and I'm too numb to feel anything. It's like watching complete strangers in another Hunger Games. But I do notice they omit the part where I covered her in flowers. Right. Because even that smacks of rebellion.

  Suzanne Collins

  Flower, Games, Down And

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.25, Scholastic Inc.

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• All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.

  Taylor Swift

  Wall, Framed, My Friends

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• Ew, no!' Laurel said, brushing past him. Dracula covered half his face with his cape, shunned vampire-style, and scooted away to his perch behind the counter.

  Sara Shepard

  Past, Style, Vampire

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• I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.

  Jessica Savitch

  Police, Literature, Crime

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, Doe, Way

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• I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.

  Helen Thomas

  Thinking, Two, People

  Phone interview on "The Majority Report" with Sam Seder, April 2, 2004.

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• People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you're covered and there's not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Simple, People, Needs

  "Arnold Schwarzenegger: Success and secrets". "60 minutes" with Lesley Stahl, mobile-feeds.cbsnews.com. September 30, 2012.

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• The walls of the arch are covered with blood-red jellies that wink and glisten at me by the light of the moon. My father told me they were completely harmless. I don't believe him. Nothing is completely harmless.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Wall, Fear, Father

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.32, Scholastic UK

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• You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far away. A place covered in blood-red earth and sleeping life. A place longing to come alive again. It's a place for disappearing, you'd said, a place for getting lost... and for getting found. I'll take you there, you'd said. And I could say that I agreed.

  Lucy Christopher

  Running, Sleep, Blood

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.253, Scholastic Inc.

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• Woman! Come out! I have—" She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to rescue you," she finally said, as if admitting that she were covered in boils.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Admitting, Grass, Rescue

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• His lips covered hers as he laid the gauze on her leg. Fiery pain shot through her flesh as his lips swallowed her cry, then replaced it with such amazing sensation she wanted to whimper in return. He licked her lips. He didn’t steal her kiss. He didn’t take it. He cajoled it from her.

  Lora Leigh

  Pain, Kissing, Return

  Lora Leigh (2018). “Elizabeth's Wolf”, p.92, Penguin

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• The smile that covered a "multitude of pains" was no hypocritical mask. She was trying to hide her sufferings - even from God! - so as not to make others, especially the poor, suffer because of them. When she promised to do "a little extra praying & smiling" for one of her friends, she was alluding to an acutely painful and costly sacrifice: to pray when prayer was so difficult and to smile when her interior pain was agonizing.

  Brian Kolodiejchuk

  Prayer, Pain, Sacrifice

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• The cat, covered in dust and standing on its hind legs, bowed to Margarita. Round its neck it was now wearing a made-up white bow tie on an elastic band, with a pair of ladies’ mother-of-pearl binoculars hanging on a cord. It had also gilded its whiskers.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Mother, Cat, Dust

  Mikhail Bulgakov (1967). “The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov”

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