Quotes of: Veil Keyword

The stars sparkled above the mist shrouded tents and caravans of the carnival. The night crackled with an odd vibration, as if a veil of peculiarity settled over the company.

Gothic Cavalcade

Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking.

I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

My feet took an involuntary step backward as I suddenly envisioned a world where I wasn't a hot tempered smartass. It was a pretty world.

Into the Veil

There is something about the fifteen-year-old mind -- a kind of skin or veil or walling off from feelings not your own.

Split: A Counterculture Childhood

Give me your honest opinion. I dont want truth with a veil on - I like naked ladies naked.

Miss Herbert

The summer night was settling upon the neighborhood like a dark lace veil, casting dappled shadows on the roofs and sidewalks and lawns.

Luisa Across the Bay

Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.

Lark & Termite

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

The Lifted Veil

Something flickered in the distance, dressing the darkness in a soft veil of blue. Out of the blue came an explosion of sounds followed by the seamlessly expressed melancholy of Chopin’s “Ballade no. 1.

The Orphan Sky

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

The Painted Veil

I respect him. He has brains and character; and that, I may tell you, is a very unusual combination.

The Painted Veil

The greatest performances where when fingertips took away a very thin veil between people and uncovered the universe in its entirety.

The Quiet Girl

The superstitious one will never walk upon a grave. It's said that its sinful in the day and terrible bad luck in the dark.

Veiled Eyes

Do you come here often?"... "Often enough, but I've never sat across from such a beautiful woman before.

Veiled Target

As nice an offer as that was, I'm afraid I'm not interested." "I see the job as your only chance for survival.

Veiled Target

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

The Writings of a Savage

Executives can no longer hide behind the corporate veil. They need to be accountable for what their companies do, because entities are responsible for socially irresponsible behavior.

Simon Mainwaring

Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

Salman Rushdie

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.

Bridget Riley

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current h...

Noam Chomsky

My prayer is that the good news of Jesus, the crucified and risen Messiah, would flood Jewish communities around the world, that the veil would be lifted, and that we would see a massive turning of Israel to the Lord Jesus.

John Piper