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" Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise. "
George William Russell
" Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
" Every now and then, President Obama sorta drops his veil. He's less coy about his philosophy, he sort of reveals his true governing philosophy, what he really believes. "
Paul Ryan
" 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
" For years, despite my inner doubts, I represented to others my choice to veil as a feminist one. "
Mona Eltahawy
" Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. "
Alfred Nobel
" Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces. "
William Gurnall
" I don't really like talking about my personal life. I like a certain amount of veil. "
Garrett Clayton
" If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it. "
Lucy Larcom
" I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress. "
Brooke Astor
" I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all. "
Clare Balding
" I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane. "
Marilyn Monroe
" In this world, the only true joy comes from the gospel - the joy that radiates from the Atonement and from ordinances that transcend the veil, and from the Comforter that salves our souls. "
Sheri L. Dew
" Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined. "
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
" My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz. "
Georgina Chapman
" Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil. "
Nawal El Saadawi
" Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
" Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. "
Khalil Gibran
" Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. "
Poppy Z. Brite
" Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an uncertain chimera shimmering from behind a veil. You must not wait, loiter, dilly-dally. You must force your way painfully through. "
Cynthia Ozick
" The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. "
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
" There are keyboard terrorists everywhere who hide behind a veil of anonymity to pursue their vicious slanders. "
Peter Hook
" There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see. "
Omar Khayyam
" There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see. "
Edward Fitzgerald
" The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed. "
DeWitt Clinton
" 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. "
Mary Ritter Beard
" Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. "
Victor Hugo
" We are not a land of Islam. In our country, we don't wear djellaba clothing, we don't wear a veil, and we don't impose cathedral-sized mosques. "
Marion Marechal-Le Pen
" We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile. "
Conor McPherson
" When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics. "
Valerie Plame
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