Veils Quotes

I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

Dare to love God without mediator or veil.

The veil between us and the divine is more permeable than we imagine.

Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.

The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind veils of corporate secrecy.

The veil of money has never been about how much money you have but about how much money has you.

Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!

All precious things, discover'd late, To those that seek them issue forth, For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth.

There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.

UNNATURAL CAUSES tears back the veil to show the socio-economic and racial inequities in health as well as the public policies that underpin them. Should be required viewing.

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

The veils have become very thin and we are now able to access a large part of our sacredness - and we are utilizing that sacredness.

We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.

Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.

The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.

In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.

It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging from the arch.

You can't just draw a veil of secrecy when you are locking people up. You have to do at least the minimum, which is to acknowledge who you are holding.

Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.

Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils.

[Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind.

They who wander widest lift No more of beauties' jealous veils, Than they who from their doorways see The miracle of flowers and trees.

The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.

Sometimes there's a sort of tear in the veil, and there are people who live in more than one dimension.

We plan to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the preparation of the budget. We also plan to open up the process of government appointments.

God is the mysterious veil under which we hide our ignorance of the cause.

Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.

Humanity's mission is to find a peace that lies beyond the veil - a peace that is not of this world. The peace that is not of this world is not dependent on human circumstances.

All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us.

No one has a human right to hide from justice behind a veil.

When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.

Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.

Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade; When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees. So Fortune's smiles the fickle crowd pursues, But swift is gone whenever she veils her face.

Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

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.

No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either

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.

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.

Here 'neath veils, my Saviour darkly I behold; To my thirsting spirit all thy light unfold; Face to face in heaven let me come to thee, And the blessed vision of thy glory see.

Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.

When we get into the spirit world, and the veil is withdrawn, we shall then perhaps understand the whys and wherefores.

And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.