Best Covering Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes

“Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of 22 Arab states, covering nearly 300 million people? Their conclusion? Of all world regions, the Arab countries scored the lowest in freedom, media independence, civil liberties, political process and political rights.”

“Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.”

Bigs Eye Courses Clear Fate Pride Shots Red Boxes Studios Wide Storytelling Censorship Avoided Covering

Author:Todd Solondz

“I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, was certainly not cowed in covering the aftermath of Katrina.”

Thinking War Running Presses Iraq Administration Cows Covering Aftermath Katrina

Author:Ken Auletta

“It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.”

Speak Silence Silent Ill Excellent Dishes Spoil Covering Speak The Truth Sauce

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Selfless giving is like putting on make-up. We're covering up a part of ourselves thats not very aware. The thing is when we take the make up off, the selflish part leaves us. We are freeer, clearer.”

Giving Yoga Karma Selfless Covering Karma Yoga Selfless Giving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during a foresight exercise.”

Use Term Exercise Approach Research Wide Topics Covering Foresight Brainstorming Futurist Checklists

Author:Jamais Cascio

“Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a vail, even the sin of the lack of charity.”

Shows Earth Sin Fairs Charity Glorious Intolerance Covering

Book:Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton

Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton

“The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.”

People Government Turns Power Economic Definitions Corporate Fascism Covering Clinicals Economic Power

Author:Ralph Nader

“I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.”

Men World Littles Natural Rooms Development Teeth Naked Thrown Freak Bubbles Covering Skulls Pudding

Author:William Golding

“Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.”

Faces Poverty Greatness Appeals Mask Veils Covering Tribulation

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Covering discretion with a coat of folly.”

Folly Coats Covering Discretion

Book:The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

Source: The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

“If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka .”

Ifs Thinking Trying Stories France Housing Covering

Book:Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

Source: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

“Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up...”

Men Firsts Ends Born Half Too Much Dog Beats Towns Kicks Covering Dead Man

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“It is sufficiently evident from many circumstances, that the doctrine of the divinity of Christ did not establish itself without much opposition, especially from the unlearned among the Christians, who thought that it savoured of Polytheism , that it was introduced by those who had had a philosophical education, and was by degrees adopted by others, on account of its covering the great offence of the cross , by exalting the personal dignity of our Saviour.”