126 Hiding Things Quotes

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Famous Hiding Things Quotes

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

somethings can only be seen in the shadows — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

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

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

Learn to hide your need and show your skill. — Jim Rohn

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong. — Sarah Dessen

The donkey is hiding but his ears are sticking out in plain sight. — Moroccan Proverbs

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them. — Amy Tan

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us. — Elbert Hubbard

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. — Russell Lynes

A person has to keep something to herself or you're life is just a layout in a magazine. — Grace Kelly

Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out. — Blaize Clement

Secrets aren't secret. They're just hidden treasures, waiting to be exploited. — Stephen White

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

Short Hiding Things Quotes

  • The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer. — Billy Wilder
  • Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. — Alfred Nobel
  • Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen — Hamza Yusuf
  • Evil is nourished and grows by concealment. — Virgil
  • Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent. — Ludwig van Beethoven
  • If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket. — Muddy Waters

Top 10 Hiding Things Quotes

The best thing about wearing black is that you can hide pretty easily, unless you're in like Hawaii, then you can't hide. — Gerard Way

Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. — Confucius

How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding. — Andrew Sean Greer

Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority. — Paulo Coelho

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly. — Portia de Rossi

Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides. — Gwen Ifill

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. — Homer

Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it. — H. L. A. Hart

You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes. — Tracy Chevalier

I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out. — Celia Cruz

Hiding things quote Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.

Hiding Something Quotes

True love has no hiding place, it’s not something you just put away. - Aretha Franklin

True love has no hiding place, it’s not something you just put away. — Aretha Franklin

Winning isn't everything to me, but it's a close second. Losing isn't something that I can just brush off and fake a smile to hide my frustration. It's that will and determination that I hope will get me where I want to go. — Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. — Jim Morrison

Hiding things quote Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick.
Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick.

Nothing will do more damage to the pro-European movement than giving room to the suspicion that we have something to hide, that we do not have the “cojones” to carry our argument to the people. — Nick Clegg

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide. — Richard Dreyfuss

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something. — Clifton Fadiman

I'm not really good at hiding pain or taking something and transforming it into something good. When those things come along, I really try to just sit with them and let it run its course because it's necessary to feel both sides of the coin. — Trevor Hall

Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves. — Corrie Ten Boom

You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else. — Audrey Hepburn

Writing can be a bit like unfolding something...Slowly, the writer reveals what's happening. But that's only half of what's going on. Writers are very cunning people who are not only unfolding and revealing. Just like conjurors and magicians, they are hiding stuff too. — Michael Rosen

Hidden Things Quotes

An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door. — Charles Dickens

If you look around, you can find a face of God in each thing, because He is not hidden in a church, in a mosque, or a synagogue, but everywhere. As there is no one who lives after seeing him, there is also no one dying after seeing him. Who finds Him, stays forever with him. — Shams Tabrizi

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth. — Sayings

In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And theres this strange thing: youre never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well. — Hannah Kent

This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident. — Martin Luther

The thing that we like about our show is that it's our take on a kind of format. It's a hidden camera comedy show where we don't even call it a 'prank show' because we're made to fool each other and our friends. — Joe Gatto

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. - Buddha

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. — Buddha

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars. — Will Oldham

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. — George Bernard Shaw

Try to put well in practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about. Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know. — Rembrandt

Hiding Place Quotes

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. - Zora Neale Hurston

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. — Zora Neale Hurston

If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest. — Corrie Ten Boom

The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look. — Julius Caesar

Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you. — Corrie Ten Boom

For a goalkeeper, there is no hiding place — Brad Friedel

This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see. — Corrie Ten Boom

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul. — Corrie Ten Boom

If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found. — Terry Tempest Williams

There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still. — Corrie Ten Boom

Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe. — Andrea Gibson

Hiding In Plain Sight Quotes

There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it. — Larry Dossey

This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves under the shadow of natural objects, and to fix them with the hand, presenting to plain sight what does not actually exist. — Cennino Cennini

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds. — James Geary

Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that's in plain sight. — Stephenie Meyer

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site. — Robin Sloan

There are rules for hiding in plain sight. The first rule, or at least the one that Sandor repeats most often, is “Don’t be stupid.” I’m about to break that rule by taking off my pants. — Pittacus Lore

The state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight. — Mike Lofgren

Young people are growing in plain sight, there is no place for them to hide, no cocoon. It’s hard — Rachel Vail

When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight. — Marianne Williamson

Failure is where success likes to hide in plain sight. — Scott Adams

Hiding Out Quotes

Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin. — Drake

I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute their boyfriend gave them a gun to hide. But I didn't. I got to admit the truth. It turned me on. — Nicholas Pileggi

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

The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. — Erma Bombeck

It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind. — Alex Karras

Think of all your experiences as a huge tapestry that can be laid out in whatever pattern you wish. Each day you add a new thread to the weaving. Do you craft a curtain to hide behind, or do you fashion a magic carpet that will care you to unequaled heights? — Tony Robbins

There are two types of paparazzi. The ones who hide who get you with your mouth hanging wide open or jumping up and down like an idiot on the street. I much prefer them to the ones who come out and follow you. — Dianna Agron

By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger. — Randy Harrison

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. — Sophia Loren

O my soul, what are you doing? Are you not aware that God sees you always? You can never hide yourself from His sight. O Father, have pity on us because we are blind and in darkness. Drive out the darkness and give me light. Melt the ice of my self-love and kindle in me the fire of Your charity. — St. Catherine of Siena

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More Hiding Things Quotes

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present. — Rene Magritte

There's an anointing the Spirit of God brings into your life; and that anointing gives you insight into the things of God. It opens the mind of God to you and unveils the riches of His glory to you. God said, "I will no longer hide my face from them," because of the outpouring of His Spirit, Hallelujah! — Chris Oyakhilome

I wouldn't want to be someone's roommate, that's for sure. You can't do certain things, you can't leave the bathroom door open...you can't put your feet on the couch, you can't hide stuff in the couch. — J. B. Smoove

The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight allows us a full grasp of the world, all things considered, just as a frigid melancholy grants us full possession of ourselves. We may hide from horror only in the heart of horror. (“The Medusa”) — Thomas Ligotti

One way can be learned by starting to see the magic in everything. Sometimes it seems to be hiding but it is always there. The more we can see the magic in one thing, a tiny flower, a mango, someone we love, then the more we are able to see the magic in everything and in everyone. Where does the mango stop and the sky begin? — Joshua Kadison

Your wealth is hiding under the very thing you are afraid to do. It's time to face your fears and take action. Expect Miracles. — Joe Vitale

No days such honored days as these! While yet Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide For some fair thing which should forever bide On earth, her beauteous memory to set In fitting frame that no age could forget, Her name in lovely April's name did hide, And leave it there, eternally allied To all the fairest flowers Spring did beget. — Helen Hunt Jackson

Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things. — Ebbe Skovdahl

We must open our eyes to admire God who hides and at the same time reveals himself in things and introduces us into the realms of mystery... we must be pure and simple like children, capable of admiring, being astonished, of marveling, and being enchanted by the divine gestures of love and closeness we witness. — Pope John Paul II

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me. — Mary Pope Osborne

No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts which gleam like mother-of-pearl, over the Ruhr or the city of Frankfurt, it is as though there were no people, only the things they have made and in which they are hiding. — W. G. Sebald

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed. — Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva

i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

When you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. When you do the right things in the right way you have nothing to lose because you have nothing to fear. — Zig Ziglar

With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best. — Zig Ziglar

when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus — Corrie Ten Boom

Money lets you enjoy the finer things of life, but it doesn't change who you are. It magnifies and brings into fruition the things that you want to hide most. It is a mask for insecurities as well. — Farrah Gray

I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another. — Homer

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! — John Irving

If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands. — Corrie Ten Boom

You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness. — Joy Page

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us. — Georges Bataille

You can go to church and sing a hymn, Judge me by the colour of my skin, You can live a lie until you die, One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside. — John Lennon

As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place of stupidity I must attack: vain mortal, you are limited by nothing. — Eugene Delacroix

One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away. — Blaise Cendrars

God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things....In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us. — Corrie Ten Boom

I could only shoot when the subway was on the other platform. Little things like that, and the platform is very narrow. It's not like you can hide if a subway comes so a lot of things happened because of that. Or a thousand people just came and looked straight into the lens like they didn't expect a movie to be shooting. — Jaume Collet-Serra

Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head. — Peter Ustinov

Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing. — Louis L'Amour

Actually, I've been working on a plan. During the exam, I'll hide under some coats, and hope that somehow everything will work out. — Matt Groening

The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves. — Roald Dahl

It's important to build a personal brand because it's the only thing you're going to have. Your reputation online, and in the new business world is pretty much the game, so you've got to be a good person. You can't hide anything, and more importantly, you've got to be out there at some level. — Gary Vaynerchuk

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