Revealing Quotes - Page 15

• I am here to tell you my father was right. You are a raging f..kwit. Now f..k off.

  James Packer

  Father, Rage

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• I got plenty of guesses wrong on things in the past as well. I don't want to pretend I have some great insight... But when the global financial crisis came along in 2008 it was scary times if you were in the middle of building $5 billion buildings. It wasn't perfect... I think that I am the luckiest person in Australia.

  James Packer

  Past, Thinking, Australia

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• I do 90 minutes of exercise a day, and obviously I have the lap band... (it's) about being fitter, happier and more active.' But he admitted: 'I'm an idiot. I (still) smoke and do all those things I shouldn't do.

  James Packer

  Exercise, Lap, Band

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• With grace and a keen appreciation of human nature, Nicholas Thompson has written a revealing, moving history of the Cold War through two fascinating men.

  Evan Thomas

  Appreciation, War, Moving

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• A hopeful book that moms will relish, Blue Like Playdough is an honest, peel-back-the-covers look at the creative way God shapes us through childhood and parenthood. Tricia Goyer explores her own weaknesses along the journey, revealing her desire to serve the God who forms strength and joy and perseverance within her. A compelling, fresh read.

  Mary E. DeMuth

  Mom, Perseverance, Book

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• Mr. Robinson and Mr. Kovite have...written a captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac -\-\ a novel that leaves us with some revealing snapshots of America, both at war and in denial, and some telling portraits of a couple of millennials trying to grope their way toward adulthood.

  Michiko Kakutani

  Couple, War, America

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• No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.

  P. D. James

  Letters, Spontaneous, Individual

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• A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly felt at the time, may be transitory. A letter captures the mood of the moment. The transitory becomes immutably fixed, part of the evidence for the prosecution or the defence.

  P. D. James

  Prejudice, Letters, May

  P. D. James (2007). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.85, Vintage

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• The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Perfect, Rainbow, Novelists

  D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Love is in the pleasure of possession, but in the Love of Allah there is no pleasure of possession, because the stations of the Reality are wonderment, the cancelling of the debt which is owed, and the blinding of vision. The Love of the human being for God is a reverence which penetrates the very depths of his being, and which is not permitted to be given except to Allah alone. The Love of Allah for the human being is that He Himself gives proof of Himself, not revealing Himself to anything that is not He.

  Mansur Al-Hallaj

  Reality, Love Is, Giving

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• The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.

  Saadi

  Wise, Sports, Kings

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.97, Innovations and Information

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• God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.

  Henry James

  Men, Infinite, Form

  Henry James (1852). “Lectures and miscellanies”, p.317

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• Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.

  Stella Blum

  Fashion, Hate, Vanity

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• Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Unhappy, Mindfulness, Helping

  Sharon Salzberg (2013). “Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace”, p.32, Workman Publishing

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• While it may not heighten our sympathy, wit widens our horizons by its flashes, revealing remote hidden affiliations and drawing laughter from far afield; humor, in contrast, strikes up fellow feeling, and though it does not leap so much across time and space, enriches our insight into the universal in familiar things, lending it a local habitation and a name.

  Marie Taylor Collins Swabey

  Funny, Sympathy, Laughter

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• Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul. Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live. Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

  Stella Blum

  Fashion, Hate, Vanity

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• If you are strong you can take a punch and not flinch, but if you have a sore spot, a nudge on that sore spot will make you scream. Muslims committed the huge blunder of revealing their vulnerability. Now the world knows what hurts them. When you find your opponent's weak spot, it is exactly where you want to hit him.

  Ali Sina

  Hurt, Strong, Want

  Source: myislam.dk

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• When you write, you're always revealing a difficult part of yourself. It may not be a part of yourself that looks as difficult - there are parts that look more difficult - but in fact, they are all difficult, and you get kind of used to doing that. It is sort of the nature of the thing.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Looks, May

  Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure.

  Hugh Bonneville

  Want, Pleasure, Britain

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 28, 2015.

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• Sweet flowers alone can say what passion fears revealing.

  Thomas Moore

  Sweet, Flower, Passion

  Thomas Moore (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore”, p.354

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• Revealing the truth is like lighting a match, it can bring light or it can set your world on fire.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Fire, Light, World

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• It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jobs, Character, Stage

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• This "human thing" is the permanent process of seeking the sacred through revealing what is hidden. It is an ever ongoing and indefinite process of understanding and interpretation.

  Curtis White

  Understanding, Ongoing, Sacred

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• I'd go down in history for being the most revealing nun ever!

  Foxy Brown

  Nun

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• It's become a cliche to think of marriage as a disaster area and a war zone. Although political shows are really popular now, I think what sets this apart is this marriage and this family dynamic, and this way of revealing that people in positions of power or who have public careers are also real people. They have children and lives, and they have to deal with all of the things that everybody else does.

  Tim Daly

  Children, Real, War

  Source: collider.com

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