Best 231 quotes in «hiding quotes» category

Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.

Some Queen of the Pipes, I thought. I'd believed I was better than a mindless drone. But I was the mindless one, hiding away. Even now I referred to them as if I didn't belong.

Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.

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

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

suicide is absolute, and if you think you will survive by hiding who you really are, you are sadly misled: there is no such thing as partial or intermittent suicide. You can only survive if you - who you really are - do survive.

Somebody is always hiding something.

The best hiding spots are not the most hidden; they're merely the least searched.

That's another one of Sandor's rules for hiding in plain sight: always appear to be weaker than I actually am. Never push it.

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

The hours trip rapidly away, hiding their dreams in their skirts.

The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland.

The ‘equilibrium’ that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. It’s only that I seem to have the knack of hiding.

The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.

The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.

The lesson there is that there's no hiding the sound of a band that is bored with its own music. Whatever it takes to create the sound of excitement, that's what you want to do.

The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol or dope, but being focused was... good.

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

The state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight.

There is no mythical creatures just creatures man ran in to hiding.

The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.

The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

The U.S. continues the search for Osama bin Laden. Reports suggest that bin Laden is most likely hiding out somewhere remote and barren, where he will not encounter others. The FBI has begun searching theaters showing the movie 'Glitter.'

Tom Brady was suspended 4 games for hiding evidence. Hillary should have to sit out first 4 primaries.

Those that walk with fear will always be too busy hiding.

.......the truth is, while the FBI is hiding behind the 5th Amendment, the Unabomer is qualifying for Social Security as a terrorist. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.

To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth

We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.

We each have our hiding places and we each put up with the little quirks of the people we love.

We spend too much time hiding illness.

What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.

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

When you start hiding things away, that’s when the darkness creeps up. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.

When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.

Why you in a dark hole, Astrid? Did you fall? (Simi) We’re hiding Simi. (Astrid) Hiding? From what? (Simi) Thanatos. (Astrid) Pfft. Why you hiding from that loser? He wouldn’t even make good barbecue. Barely take the edge off my peckishness. Hmmm…How come there’s no food here? (Simi)

Why are we still afraid of being other than men? Women are still in hiding.

You can run but you can't hide

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

You don't need any courage today in Germany to make a movie about the Nazi time. You get all the subsidies, you get the TV stations, you get the good reviews. But you need courage to kick in the balls all the people that are still hiding under the blanket, and to say, "Oh, Adolf Hitler was maybe not so bad." And with my little Nazi jokes in Postal, I offended the Germans in a harsh time.

You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much

You spend your whole life trying to get known and then you spend the rest of it hiding in the toilet.

A creature that hides and “withdraws into its shell,” is preparing a “way out.” This is true of the entire scale of metaphors, from the resurrection of a man in his grave, to the sudden outburst of one who has long been silent. If we remain at the heart of the image under consideration, we have the impression that, by staying in the motionlessness of its shell, the creature is preparing temporal explosions, not to say whirlwinds, of being.

You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and on things, not only from others but from ourselves.

A game like sardines is scary, not so much for the hider but for the seekers. It's scary because you lose your companions and the whole world creeps up quiet and you slowly realize you're going to stumble upon a secret place where everyone will jump out at you. And then, when you are the very last seeker, you start to wonder if you're the only person in the world. If the hiding place somehow sucked up the players and the last one has to decide to run away or get sucked up, too.

Alice haunted the mossy edge of the woods, lingering in patches of shade. She was waiting to hear his Austin-Healey throttle back when he careened down the utility road separating the state park from the cabins rimming the lake, but only the whistled conversation of buntings echoed in the branches above. The vibrant blue males darted deeper into the trees when she blew her own 'sweet-sweet chew-chew sweet-sweet' up to theirs. Pine seedlings brushed against her pants as she pushed through the understory, their green heads vivid beneath the canopy. She had dressed to fade into the forest; her hair was bundled up under a long-billed cap, her clothes drab and inconspicuous. When at last she heard his car, she crouched behind a clump of birch and made herself as small as possible, settling into a shallow depression of ferns and leaf litter.