Disguise Quotes - Page 23

• Defeat may be victory in disguise.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Victory, May, Defeat

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Complete Poems of Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

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• My staged work looks so real that people actually take it for documentary. But, in fact, that is my intention, to disguise the manufacturedness of it. Half of my work, or probably more than that, is staged.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Real, People, Looks

  Interview with Peter Halley and Bob Nickas, www.indexmagazine.com. 1997.

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• We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But this means being: Loving as he loves, helping as he helps, giving as he gives, serving as he serves, rescuing as he rescues, being with him all 24 hours of the day, touching him in his distressing disguise.

  Mother Teresa

  Mean, Long, Giving

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• You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.

  Elvis Presley

  Wise, Angel, Evil

  Song: (You're The) Devil In Disguise, Album: ELV1S: 30 #1 Hits

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• ...[Changers] were a threat to identity, a challenge to the individualism even of those they were never likely to impersonate. It had nothing to do with souls or physical or spiritual possession; it was, as the Idirans well understood, the behavouristic copying of another which revolted. Individuality, the thing which most humans held more precious than anything else about themselves, was somehow cheapened by the ease with which a Changer could ignore it as a limitation and use it as a disguise.

  Iain Banks

  Spiritual, Challenges, Soul

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• Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes you won't be on the beneficial end of it but either way it's a blessing in disguise.

  Behdad Sami

  Blessing, Everything Happens For A Reason, Way

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• For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.

  David Bowie

  Opposites, Looks, Environment

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• Love can be the most dreadful disguise that hate assumes.

  William March

  Hate, Assuming

  William March, William T. Going, Richard Brough (2011). “99 Fables”, p.20, University of Alabama Press

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• We're all in full-time Christian service. We have different disguises, but the same vocation; to be out and out lovers and servants of the Lord Jesus Christ... no dichotomy exists between ministry and lifestyle.

  Dwight Edwards

  Christian, Jesus, Different

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• The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind.

  William Ernest Henley

  Labyrinth, Retreat, Pseudonyms

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Views and reviews”

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• Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.

  Thomas Szasz

  Pills, Moral, Bitter

  Thomas Szasz (2017). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.156, Routledge

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• History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Damage Is Done, History Repeats Itself, Cunning

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Pain, Suffering, Felt

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• It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion.

  Robertson Davies

  Talking, Names, Stupidity

  Robertson Davies (1996). “The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995”

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• How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?

  Laini Taylor

  Desperation, Instinct, Possibility

  Laini Taylor (2014). “Dreams of Gods and Monsters: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.162, Hachette UK

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• After I removed all the cultural coatings and traditions that disguise each religion, I discovered the soul to be the same in all of them. Therefore, it is hard for me to say I am just one, when my heart recognizes the truths in them all.

  Suzy Kassem

  Heart, Soul, Tradition

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• From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From our devotion to a higher good comes our propensity to the foulest atrocities. From our commitment to ideals comes our excuse to hate. Since the beginning of history, we have been blinded by evil's ability to don a selfless disguise. We have failed to see that our finest qualities often lead us to the actions we most abhor, murder, torture, genocide and war.

  Howard Bloom

  War, Hate, Commitment

  "The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History". Book by Howard Bloom, 1997.

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• Mirror that lies, mirror that lies, that can't be me in the gorilla disguise.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Lying, Mirrors, Low Self Esteem

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• I don't care if they're Republican liberals or Democrat liberals, they're still liberals. They're not 'moderates.' Don't hit me with that. There's no such thing as a moderate. A moderate is just a liberal disguise.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Care, Republican, Democrat

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• The concept of a 'just' or 'fair' price is devoid of any scientific meaning; it is a disguise for wishes, a striving for a state of affairs different from reality.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Reality, Wish, Different

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government coercion is a form of theft. Its supporters attempt to disguise its essential character by claiming that democratic procedures give it legitimacy, but this justification is specious. Theft is theft, whether it be carried out by one thief or by a hundred million thieves acting in concert. And it is impossible to found a good society on the institutionalization of theft.

  Robert Higgs

  Character, Mean, Compassion

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• Your problems are good. They are power in disguise.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Problem

  Mark Victor Hansen, Robert G. Allen (2002). “The One Minute Millionaire: The Story that Transforms Your Life and Makes You Rich”, Random House Business Books

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• She's a devil in disguise, I can tell by looking in her eyes, little Miss Strange.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Eye, Evil, Missing

  Song: Little Miss Strange, Album: Electric Ladyland

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• Over time, years of meditation gave me glimpses of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all life. I experienced that on one level we are alone, separate, apart from everyone and everything; on another level, we are the Self in different disguises, different names and forms, a part of everyone and everything. This experience of interconnectedness is part of spiritual traditions and the perennial wisdom in virtually all religions and cultures.

  Dean Ornish

  Spiritual, Self, Years

  Dean Ornish (1998). “Love & Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy”

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• Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vice in disguise!

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Weakness, Vices

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