94 Covered Up Quotes

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Famous Covered Up Quotes

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble. - Howard Baker

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble. — Howard Baker

Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity. — John Adams

everyone is naked... under their clothes. — Ashley Purdy

People hide the truth because they're afraid. — Nicholas Sparks

Hidden from the eyes, out from the heart. — Polish Proverbs

Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water. — Karen Duffy

A grid is like underwear, you wear it but it's not to be exposed. - Massimo Vignelli

A grid is like underwear, you wear it but it's not to be exposed. — Massimo Vignelli

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all. — Sophocles

That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men. — Kajol

Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible. — Rene Magritte

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up. - Marilyn Monroe

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up. — Marilyn Monroe

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment. — Virgil

We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all. — Rene Magritte

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. — Alfred Nobel

Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it. — Charles M. Blow

Short Covered Up Quotes

  • Doctor’s faults are covered with earth, and rich men’s with money. — American Proverbs
  • Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud. — Milan Kundera
  • False face must hide what the false heart doth know. — William Shakespeare
  • Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out. — Blaize Clement

Top 10 Covered Up Quotes

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country. — Robert Baden-Powell

My tattoos are like a scrapbook of my life. Sometimes you don't feel comfortable in your own skin, so covering it up with pictures helps — Frank Iero

A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up. — Kabir

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

All the king's pedophiles and all the king's cover-up artists couldn't put together their pedophile palace again. — Alex Jones

When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up. - Rodney Dangerfield

When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up. — Rodney Dangerfield

The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal. — Bob Woodward

Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it. — Dan B. Allender

The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep. — Dan Gable

I will sign a universal health-care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family’s premium by up to $2,500 a year. — Barack Obama

Covered Up Image Quotes

Covered up quote Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers.
Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers.

Cover Up Quotes

It's not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn't sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day? — Jocko Willink

Give people, including yourself, clear permission to make mistakes . . . and to fix the problems. Since nobody's perfect, mistakes should be allowed. Cover-ups shouldn't. Cover-ups create twice the trouble. — Price Pritchett

I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue on my hip. I realized I made a mistake, so a few months later I got a cross to cover it. When my pants hang low, it looks like I'm wearing a dagger! — Angelina Jolie

Covered up quote The tiny seed knew that in order to grow it needed to be dropped in dirt, covered in darkness, and s
The tiny seed knew that in order to grow it needed to be dropped in dirt, covered in darkness, and struggle to reach the light.

I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical. — Christian Bale

What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory. — J. D. Salinger

I'm very proud of my skin and my face, and I have no problem not wearing makeup. I don't wear makeup because I feel like I need to cover myself up or because I don't feel confident. I wear makeup because it's fun; it's like painting on my face. — Zendaya

Covered up quote It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, pro
It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. Bet it is never gone.

It was never something I had in my mind to do – a show on Nickelodeon, let alone being consider a teen idol. It’s odd. I remember my mom picking up a magazine with me on the cover and saying, ‘You don’t know how weird this is for me.’ I told her, ‘You don’t know how weird it is for me!’ — Logan Henderson

When that white driver stepped back toward us, when he waved his hand and ordered us up and out of our seats, I felt a determination cover my body like a quilt on a winter night. — Rosa Parks

I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me. — Helen Dunmore

I can't stop thinking about cutting myself up. Visual bruises can be covered with make-up, but down to the core, I'm all bruises. — Majandra Delfino

Cover-up Quotes

When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up. — Jeffrey Archer

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep. — Leo Tolstoy

You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder or the back, But when you spot the answer where the higher glamours lurk You'll find in moving higher up the laurel covered spire That most of it is practice and the rest of it is work. — Grantland Rice

Covered up quote Courage is grace under pressure.
Courage is grace under pressure.

As long as you continue to deny responsibility, you have the added burden of covering your mistake, and you know the truth will eventually come out anyway. Why bother prolonging the drama? You screwed up, admit it. — Tim Grover

Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you. — B. B. King

As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up. — Tom Petri

The truth is, a man can choose to objectify a woman whether she’s wearing a bikini or a burqa. We don’t stop lust by covering up the female form; we stop lust by teaching men to treat women as human beings worthy of respect. — Rachel Held Evans

I have had more magazine covers in the last 25 years than I have had in my whole elongated career. [...] Today I am in a territory that business considers unmarketable: age and white hair. Slowly, however, I started to own that territory little by little because I stood up for age. — Carmen Dell'Orefice

The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness... — Wilhelm Reich

We ain't got a lot, but we don't need anything. Covered in kisses, surrounded by love, showered with blessings from up above. — Toby Keith

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More Covered Up Quotes

Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt. — Mesa Selimovic

Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward. — William Butler Yeats

So okay, I don't want to be a traitor to my generation and all, but I don't get how guys dress today. I mean, come on, it looks like they just fell out of bed and put on some baggy pants and take their greasy hair-ew!-and cover it up with a backwards cap and like, we're expected to swoon? I don't think so. — Cher

How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. You winnow his in the wind like chaff, But yours you hide, Like a cheat covering up an unlucky throw. Dwelling on your brother's faults Multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love. — Buddha

I just realized that I'm just going to be who I am. I don't need to adjust how I look for anyone or even for myself. Even if I have a pimple, I'm not going to cover it up with makeup. — Charlyne Yi

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again. — Lewis Carroll

In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the slave trade or lynching, the instinct is to cover it up, to get rid of it, to destroy it. — Bryan Stevenson

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you. — Bobby Darin

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

I was sad to see some of them go. Like a magic lantern that would project images on walls and people would travel the countryside with these magic lanterns and tell stories. And there was this cabinet that you would walk up to and it had a little peephole and inside the whole thing was covered in thousands of little mirrors. — Danielle Dutton

And the Zionists have used the Holocaust as a weapon to deny the rights of the Palestinians and to cover-up the crimes of Israel. — David Duke

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

Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to - alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person - you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain. — Eckhart Tolle

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