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  • I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them. -- Mae West
  • Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered. -- John Pomfret
  • Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk. -- Bob Woodward
  • Since I've quit drinking, I'm not sure I've found the good life, but I've certainly uncovered a better one. -- Koren Zailckas
  • There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters. -- Hannah Kent
  • When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before. -- Arthur Hailey
  • Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for. -- Leslie Cockburn
  • Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. -- Buddha
  • I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war. -- Alan Furst
  • Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes. -- Luis Walter Alvarez
  • The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered. -- Thomas Paine
  • I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong. -- Chris Bell
  • In 1995, we had evidence of the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden being in the Philippines, living in the Philippines. We had evidence of front organizations set up in the Philippines. And we uncovered evidence about, which would help the U.S. with - about the perpetuators of the World Trade Center bombing. -- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
  • Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape. -- Michelle Malkin
  • By being an athlete, I have uncovered so many other ways to express my beauty. Being a strong, fearless woman makes me feel beautiful. I love the way I look and feel when I am two hours into my training and my skin is glistening with sweat and my clothes are drenched because I have given it all I've got. -- Laila Ali
  • Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they're just uncovered anew. -- Malcolm Forbes
  • Every human being has talents that are just waiting to be uncovered. -- Tom Rath
  • He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered and every secret will be made known. -- Melina Marchetta
  • Let the Word be preached, the truth taught, and error will be uncovered and souls delivered. -- Arno C. Gaebelein
  • Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents. -- Paulo Coelho
  • The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation. -- Benjamin Rush
  • I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it. -- Annie Dillard
  • Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty. -- Pope John Paul II
  • Nudity in the flesh doesn't bother me. But having my mind uncovered - that scares the hell out of me. -- Margot Kidder
  • In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions. -- Hugh Blair
  • When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself. -- John Sedgwick
  • Big news on CNN, a search has uncovered illegal biochemical agents, toxins and other dangerous substances. Not in Iraq, in Rush Limbaugh's medicine cabinet. -- Jay Leno
  • Neoclassical economics ... has uncovered important truths about the nature of money and markets because its fundamental model of rational self-interested human behavior is correct about 80% of the time. -- Francis Fukuyama
  • They recognize me. Of course they recognize me. My face is uncovered and I'm standing here outside of District 12 pointing an arrow at them. Who else would I be? -- Suzanne Collins
  • The deepest level of truth uncovered by science, & by philosophy, is the fundamental truth of unity. At that deepest subnuclear level of our reality, you & i are literally one. -- John Hagelin
  • We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business. -- Jimmy Carter
  • A good friend will help you to discover the potentials you haven't uncovered. A bad friend will help you to cover up the potentials you have already recovered. Make your choice! -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • The Playtex Secrets survey truly uncovered some thought-provoking and provocative secrets of real American housewives. In fact, many of the findings would make great fodder for a storyline on the show! -- Alfre Woodard
  • Truth is like nuclear waste: it needs to be dealt with carefully. Sometimes it needs to be buried way, way out of town. And sometimes it should never be uncovered at all. -- Gina Barreca
  • If by now you're a little confused, don't be too hard on yourself. Life is confusing, and anyone who claims that she has all the answers has probably uncovered the wrong ones. -- Kirsten Miller
  • A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to the meridian blaze of the spiritual sun. -- C. S. Lewis
  • I would say we want to stop the firing of rockets, for sure. But we also want to dismantle the terror - the tunnel - the terror tunnel networks that we have uncovered. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space. -- Herman Melville
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