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You can't have it both ways. Love is too powerful to hide for very long. Deny it and suffer the consequences. Acknowledge it and suffer the consequences. Revealing it can either be shameful or it can be liberating. It is for others to decide which it will be. -- Tonya Hurley
Nothing is more revealing than movement. -- Martha Graham
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. -- Samuel Butler
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. -- E. M. Forster
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. -- Jean Cocteau
Revealing the truth is like lighting a match, it can bring light or it can set your world on fire. -- Wiz Khalifa
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. -- Khalil Gibran
Revealing of origin , evidence the existence of hidden pearls in mind which is addicted to imagine and thought as well. -- Seema Gupta
Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love. -- Diana Vreeland
[Revealing character] can't be done by pushing the person into position or arranging his head at a certain angle. It must be accomplished by provoking the victim, amusing him with jokes, lulling him with silence, or asking impertinent questions which his best friend would be afraid to voice. -- Philippe Halsman
The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths. -- Bruce Nauman
Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them. -- Jean Vanier
In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do -- Hugo Black
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. -- Agatha Christie
The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension - above, in creation; below, in the Incarnation; in the depth, in Hades; in the breadth, throughout the world. All things have been filled with the knowledge of God. -- Athanasius of Alexandria
God's capacity to forgive is greater than our capacity to sin; while our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. It's a message revealing the radical contrast between the sinful heart of mankind and the gracious heart of mankind's Creator. -- Tullian Tchividjian
I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages. -- Rainbow Rowell
As he stared back, he altered...as if a shield slid away fro his eyes, revealing a scorching force of will that sucked the air from my lungs. The intense magnetism he exuded grew in strength, becoming a near tangible impression of vibrant and unrelenting power. -- Sylvia Day
Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the world ought to work, and Christians instead believed in the revealing truth Scripture. -- Charles Colson
Eugenie, my sweet, your outraged protests are adorable, but they only continue to slow us down. If you want me to help you, then let me. If you don't, then take me to one of those places where human women wear revealing clothing and quickly lose their virtue through alcohol. -- Richelle Mead
This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he knows that this is not necessarily the richest and more correct. He sacrifices one images for another more intense and expressive, and he does this repeatedly until new and unknown visions strike him with their revealing spell. -- Michael Chekhov
Art begs you to notice it. Why? Because art is God's way of saying hello. So pay attention to poetry. Pay attention to music. Pay attention to paintings and sculptures and photo exhibits and ballets and plays. Don't let all this go unnoticed. Your world is shouting out to you, revealing something intrinsically glorious about itself. Listen carefully. Love art, the way art loves life. -- Neale Donald Walsch
I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible. -- David Copperfield
Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness. -- Henry Rollins
When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter. -- Annie Leibovitz
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness. -- Paul Strand
I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive. -- Scott Stossel
A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way. -- Lorrie Moore
The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress, more fully revealing himself as humans gain the capacity to better understand. -- Rodney Stark
I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing. -- Alan Moore
We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us. -- Walt Disney
Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason. -- Judith Krantz
Although a lot of pain for a little screen time; Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying to put on a bra, losing weight because women's clothes are SO revealing - Ladies you have my respect. -- Lou Diamond Phillips
The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the 'smoking gun' tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up. -- Helen Thomas
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too. -- Douglas Adams
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. -- James Thurber
Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor. -- Richard Rohr
I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to turn the pages. The reader would also be looking for some out-of-the-ordinary revelations along the way. At the end of the day, I'm a writer who simply loves revealing stuff that is out-of-the-ordinary. -- Ashwin Sanghi
When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There is no texture, no shades of gray. In fiction, you can bring the reader on the perilous journey with your characters as they discover that war is more like a wilderness of mirrors, full of danger and uncertainty. -- Leslie Cockburn
My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself. -- Pamela Anderson
A remarkably revealing portrait. -- Byron York
Reticences are as revealing as avowals. -- Elizabeth Bibesco
Writing means revealing oneself to excess. -- Franz Kafka
Dont shoot the messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths. -- Julian Assange
I'm not into bikinis or other revealing clothing. -- Eric Bana
Art means: revealing God in everything that exists. -- Pope Benedict XVI
I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information. -- Diana Ross
People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves. -- Humphrey Bogart
Sweet flowers alone can say what passion fears revealing. -- Thomas Moore
Art is first a seeing and then a revealing -- Sheldon Vanauken
Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion. -- Patricia Wentworth
But what is art other than revealing human nature? -- Marina Abramovic
Dance is one of the most revealing art forms. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself. -- Eric Kandel
Mentalism is the art of exploring and revealing hidden connections. -- Jay Sankey
As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally. -- Carla Gugino
What cannot be known is more revealing than what can. -- John D. Barrow
Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies. -- James Laver
It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things. -- Aimee Bender
Listen carefully. The way(s) we speak about things is revealing. -- John Paul Caponigro
Actors are very good at not revealing anything, so they're safe. -- Mads Mikkelsen
Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing. -- Rick Moody
You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections. -- Robin Morgan
Personal experimentation is revealing, and once you get into it, immensely engaging. -- Robert Henri
The loves of all hearts are so many mirrors revealing their characters. -- Fulton J. Sheen
You create silent enemies by revealing how much God had blessed you. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
I'd go down in history for being the most revealing nun ever! -- Foxy Brown
The strength in gold is revealing the general weakness in the dollar. -- Peter Schiff
Always the most revealing thing about the church is her idea of God. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Any conversation I have with anybody that's real is always revealing and inspiring. -- Spike Jonze
But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left. -- Tammy Bruce
Social media has a way of revealing someone and can be very telling. -- Billy Kennedy
A difficulty journey is more revealing of character than any discussion or analysis. -- Michael Treanor
Revival is God revealing Himself to men in awesome holiness and irresistible power. -- Arthur Wallis
Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing. -- Christoph Waltz
Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth. -- Richard Rohr
A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing. -- John Marin
I'm not revealing any deep, hidden secret that there are wealthy people in Asia. -- Kevin Kwan
I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic. -- Gene Weingarten
No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter. -- P. D. James
A woman wearing a revealing dress will always be sexier than a naked woman. -- Steve Coogan
Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you'll see that they're revealing everything. -- William Monahan
I asked her to wear something revealing, so she showed up in a prophet's toga. -- Jarod Kintz
She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average. -- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln. -- Sarah Vowell
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant. -- Paulo Coelho
Making a request without revealing the feeling/need takes all the joy out of other's service. -- Lucy Liu
Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace. -- Sharon Salzberg
I believe that every conversation you have is an invitation to risk revealing the real you. -- Keith Ferrazzi
It's hard to talk about love without sounding either cheesy, or revealing too much personal stuff. -- Thomas Mars
Hide nothing from your confessor... a sick man can be cured only by revealing his wounds. -- Margaret of Cortona
The pressure of the [election] campaign has a wonderful way of revealing your strengths and weaknesses. -- William J. Clinton
Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does, tells us what he is. -- Frederic Dan Huntington
The lies we tell about ourselves may be more revealing than the truths we incautiously reveal. -- James Edwin Gunn
Friday and Saturday nights have a funny way of revealing what we really believe on Sunday mornings. -- Mark Hart
Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question. -- Harold S. Kushner
The journey that we go on as actors is an interesting one and sometimes a revealing one. -- Kevin Spacey
The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias. -- F. LaGard Smith
You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual. -- Elia Kazan
I may not sound wrong when I say that by revealing history, you end up making it. -- Sambhav Ratnakar
Many of the artists are not pretending to have an objective point of view. They're revealing the subjectivity. -- Massimiliano Gioni
Every time you write a poem itâ??s apocalyptic. Youâ??re revealing who you really are to yourself. -- Li-Young Lee
I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves. -- Idina Menzel
I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character. -- Jonathan Shapiro
I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself. -- Ernest Cline
In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure. -- Hugh Bonneville
Scents as well as clothes and hairstyles can go a long way in revealing a part of yourself -- Anne Hathaway
Take a look at yourself, the mirror's revealing. If yeen got it, yeen got it the theory is brilliant. -- Drake
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do. -- A. S. Byatt
That's one of the wonderful things about the whole process of photography - eye contact can be very revealing. -- Derek Ridgers
Women are wearing tight and sexy clothes again. It is the body-conscious mentality, and women are revealing every bulge. -- Manolo Blahnik
Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend. -- Maggie Scarf
We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying. -- Wendy Whelan
In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual. -- Myriam Miedzian
You are trying to lure us into revealing information you're not entitled to? With chocolate and wine? Are you amateurs? -- Moira J. Moore

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