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When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up. -- Rodney Dangerfield
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account? -- Jean Paul
Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed. -- Dougray Scott
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. -- Meister Eckhart
Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine. -- Mike Wallace
Covering discretion with a coat of folly. -- William Shakespeare
Covering Africa is 80 percent logistics and 20 percent reporting. -- Johnny Borrell
Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow -- T. S. Eliot
Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it. -- Henry Ward Beecher
There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering. -- Elon Musk
Hope is putting Faith "on the line" and expecting results!(from Mission Possible - Spiritual Covering) -- Deborah L. McCarragher
Hope is putting Faith on the line and expecting results!(from Mission Possible - Spiritual Covering) -- Deborah L. McCarragher
Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top. -- Jimmy Dean
You must rise above The gloomy clouds Covering the mountaintop Otherwise, how will you Ever see the brightness? -- Ryokan Taigu
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. -- Khalil Gibran
Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off. -- Julie Burchill
Covering oneself, surrounding oneself with shapes and colors that correspond to a plan, mean that that plan is beginning to be realized. -- Joséphin Péladan
My tattoos are like a scrapbook of my life. Sometimes you don't feel comfortable in your own skin, so covering it up with pictures helps -- Frank Iero
Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong. -- Elliott Erwitt
Covering a Super Bowl is actually one of the easiest things we do because our most experienced people are there. We'll have 25,000 feet of film and there's no way you're going to miss anything. -- Steve Sabol
Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste? -- John Milton
When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation. -- Epictetus
We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them. -- John Calvin
Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If chick-lit really is taking a commercial battering, I'd suggest it's because the marketing has been done to death. Covering everything in girlie pink and putting chocolate in the title may once have been a clever Pavlovian device but now makes readers feel a bit sick. -- Jojo Moyes
It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo in which to start the day. Covering her head with a pillow, she reached out blindly and urgently, desperate to shut the damn thing off. -- Naomi Ragen
The eye of the heart, though closed in fallen man, is able to take in a glimmering of light and this is faith. But anyway of living causes a covering like rust to accumulate over the heart so that it cannot sense the Divine origin of Allah's message. -- Martin Lings
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. -- Albert Einstein
If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the monetary systems of those nations pursuing this course will break down completely. The purchasing power of the monetary unit will decline more and more, until finally it disappears completely. -- Ludwig von Mises
What I believe is that we have this extraordinary spirit inside ourselves, which for me is our Buddha nature. I believe we are in the process of opening and getting closer and closer to our Buddha nature and stripping away all that is covering it. I don't think I'm going to end up meeting this one being up there or out there. -- Eve Ensler
Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail. -- John C. Calhoun
Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools-guys who are fools and are covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus-THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible! -- Richard P. Feynman
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes. -- Jean Racine
The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it. -- Nancy Gibbs
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services. -- Henry Ford
Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring. -- Geoff Mulgan
We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK. -- Mehmet Oz
On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent. -- Anthony Shadid
I was unknown because I came to Washington from the West. I started covering Watergate. Immodestly, I'd say I did it pretty well, in part because it was hard to go wrong. -- Tom Brokaw
On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square. -- Erich Maria Remarque
When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so our home was a virtual library, covering every author from Beverly Cleary to James Michener. -- Jeff Kinney
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The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI. -- Tom Hayden
I was kidnapped by Sunni insurgents near Fallujah, in Iraq, ambushed by the Taliban in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, and injured in a car accident that killed my driver while covering the Taliban occupation of the Swat Valley in Pakistan. -- Lynsey Addario
Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges. -- Hassanal Bolkiah
It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them. -- Kurt Loder
I like indoor Christmas trees. And I like people who decorate their homes with lights and all that crap. I think it's a healthy outlet for them. If they weren't covering their lawns with twinkling lights, they'd be doing something that was really, really creepy. -- Lewis Black
I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering. -- Tom Petty
People that are 40, they don't sit around at talk about gray hair and how it covers their hair. They talk about highlighting, of course they're covering gray, but they don't talk about it that way. They're going to get their colors because they need a little lightening. -- Andie MacDowell
If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected. -- Louis Sullivan
I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical. -- Christian Bale
Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it. -- Dan Rather
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality. -- Carl Jung
I'm covering the worst president in American history. -- Helen Thomas
To avoid lying, do nothing that needs covering. -- Mark Twain
I wouldn't feel right wearing clothes covering my body. -- Christina Aguilera
I love covering stories that have huge historic impacts. -- Wolf Blitzer
I guess I do a really good job at covering. -- Michelle Pfeiffer
I'm just skin covering coffee and some real nervous teeth. -- Bill Hicks
In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles. -- Dennis Banks
Most announcers play pattycake, pattycake with the players they're covering. -- Johnny Miller
Journalism is about covering important stories-with a pillow, until they stop moving. -- David Burge
Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering. -- Jonathan Edwards
By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion. -- Jessica Savitch
The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering. -- Jane Porter
I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers. -- Kurt Loder
I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun. -- Ed Bradley
Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies. -- Bob Lewis
The only thing government does better than killing is lying and covering things up. -- Edward Britton
Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems. -- Chris Argyris
I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico. -- John Amos
Kindness is like a warm blanket of snow, softly covering and gently touching the heart. -- Heather Wolf
Tundra is a huge, forever frozen wetland covering the entire coast of the Arctic Ocean. -- Palmer Cox
And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events. -- Ed Bradley
I think the news people no longer have any idea of what covering the news is. -- Bill Maher
One thing you may be sure of, I was not a party to covering up anything. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
These people in the media, they may hate Donald Trump, but they cannot stop covering him. -- Rush Limbaugh
I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France. -- John Tesh
In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's. -- Jim Lehrer
Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot. -- Rider Strong
The goodnesses you do will beautifully cover you like the beautiful flowers covering a country house! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock. -- Frank Herbert
Michael Phelps and Willie Nelson are teaming up to do an album. ... They're covering The Doobie Brothers. -- Reba McEntire
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In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure. -- Dick Schaap
A blanket is great for covering things, like the dead guy, I just killed with this brick. -- Nicole McKay
I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span. -- Charles Portis
Real MEN don't need a woman covering for him because a Real MAN IS a woman's covering! -- Sanjo Jendayi
As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene. -- Jean-Marc Vallee
The moon's a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms. -- Darren Shan
The moon's a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms." -- Darren Shan
I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up. -- Carey Lowell
Oh, yeah, I've always thought of covering some of my influences like Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder. -- Jon Secada
I'm 100% real, even when what's real is ugly. I don't take any pride in covering up, hiding and lying. -- Ne-Yo
We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago. -- Bent Saether
Good explanations are like bathing suits, darling; they are meant to reveal everything by covering only what is necessary. -- E. L. Konigsburg
If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them. -- Amy Goodman
Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles -- Du Fu
The original state for all Beings is Love. Out troubles are due only to our covering over thus natural state. -- Lester Levenson
If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka . -- Christopher Hitchens
And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky. -- Rabindranath Tagore
The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy To inlay heaven with stars. -- William Shakespeare
Can't we sleep ten minutes more? I was having a lovely dream about sneezing without covering my mouth, and giving everybody germs. -- Daniel Handler
Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery. -- Phil Donahue
I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me. -- Anthony Lewis
The systemic failure in the media in covering ISIS is that the majority of reporters are doing it in a semaphore fashion. -- Rukmini Maria Callimachi
I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative. -- Sally Phillips
The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations. -- Sydney Schanberg
A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else. -- Sam Smith
Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples. -- Claire Tomalin
In the southern hemisphere, covering the Christmas tree with fake snow even though winter has nothing to do with the birth of Christ. -- Paulo Coelho
You are the Arabian stallion that neighs on the crossroad of my heart ache covering me with the dust of my own ardor. -- Malak El Halabi
Now don't you be covering for him, Ash. (She wagged her finger at Nick.) Are you driving? (Cherise) No, Mom. I'm sitting. (Nick) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce. -- Saint Francis de Sales
If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else. -- Stephen Hawking
The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You're covering second base. On every pitch, you're moving. -- Lou Boudreau
A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls -- Hermann Hesse
I'm not wedded to covering the markets. I'm intrigued by the markets. If I can connect Main Street with Wall Street, then I've succeeded. -- Neil Cavuto
You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more. -- Salman Rushdie

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