Top 80 Veil Quotes

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.

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.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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.

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

Lifting the veil of secrecy that shrouds police misconduct allegations would seem like an obvious democratic value. After all, if police work for the people, should they not be answerable to the people, as well? This is a basic tenet of good government.

I believe there is a strong familial pull as the influence of beloved ancestors continues with us from the other side of the veil.

Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance… We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.

There, they tell me to wear the veil. Here, they are telling me to put my hips in a little girl‘s skirt, and I am this lovely full woman. You’ve got this Ph.D. and you‘re worrying, ‘Am I skinny enough?’

You can’t take a singer out of a band that’s already established and put another singer in and dress him up the exact same way and try to pull the veil over these fans‘ eyes.

Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao’s China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup.

Although I come from a family who are Muslim – my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian – my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.

I loved everything about my wedding look, but, in retrospect, I would have changed the position of where we attached the veil on my head. Make sure you test a few different placements and styles before the big day to make a clear vision and plan with your hairstylist.

Not wearing hijab has seriously, seriously hurt my career. Mass media wants to see a woman in a veil. But I think it helps me because it makes it easier for my audience to relate to me. I’m not the scary ‘other’ they keep seeing on ‘Fox News.’

If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?

For me, marriage is about love, not paperwork. I’ve never been the kid who dreamed of the big white dress, the long veil, the fancy diamond ring.

There are some episodes in the history of Israel that are still kept under the strongest secrecy thick veil possible. Some of them are 40 years old, 50 years old, and are still under thick, thick secrecy, and anyone violating this secrecy would be thrown into jail himself.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

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.

Faking is a social activity in which people act together to draw a veil over unwanted realities and encourage each other in the exercise of their illusory powers.

Unlike Chicago or New York, small-town Minnesota did not allow a man’s failings to disappear beneath a veil of numbers. People talked. Secrets did not stay secret.

I cannot adequately express the horror I feel for a man who can be so base as to veil his hypocrisy under the cloak of religion, and state the base falsehood he has done.

For years, despite my inner doubts, I represented to others my choice to veil as a feminist one.

Many cultures believe that on a certain day – Halloween, the Irish Samhain Eve, Mexico‘s ‘Dia de los Muertos’ – the veil between this world and the next is especially thin.

I don’t really like talking about my personal life. I like a certain amount of veil.

Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth‘s nakedness.

In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including ‘debate prep.’

When you hide behind a veil of your financial business you never know who you’re influencing, where your priorities lie. But I think it’s important that the American people have some glimpse or some understanding of the financial standing of their commander-In-chief.

I think living in a way that’s close to nature makes you feel like that – makes you feel how thin the veil is between life and death.

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.

A full body veil is hindering integration.

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters‘ eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper version of Democracy to the House and Senate. I won’t say that, of course. The simple reason is, I don’t know.

The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown.

I never wanted to be Marilyn – it just happened. Marilyn’s like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

I remember that when people started listening to what I had to say, I had a choice to set up a veil, even if it meant being something that I’m not. Ultimately, that’s not the decision I made. I owned more of everything I am, which was a little nerve-racking.

Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.

My prayer is that the good news of Jesus, the crucified and risen Messiah, would flood Jewish communities around the world, that the veil would be lifted, and that we would see a massive turning of Israel to the Lord Jesus.

I do not have a bride gene. I haven‘t been planning a wedding since I was 3. I never put a sheet on my head and pretended that it was a veil.

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

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.

Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

I was born into an artistic family, and they understood me. But they were really worried, because some of the stuff I did was dangerous. If I’d been caught without the veil with a shaved head, I don’t know what would have happened.

I’ve written a very long piece of music recently, the ‘Veil of the Temple,’ which lasts about seven hours. It’s really a kind of vigil. It takes place during the night, waiting for the resurrection of Christ.

You don’t think in depression that you’ve put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you’re seeing truly.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

When I was a kid in Ireland, there were not very many black people. I was very much like the strange brown thing, intriguing and cute. I didn’t experience racism there. The first time I did was in London. It was that moment that you realize you’re black. A kind of lifting of the veil.

Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.

Life will continue on the other side of the veil.

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.

We know that listening to Black Veil Brides, wearing Black Veil Bride shirts, or being in Black Veil Brides isn’t always the most popular thing in the world.

There’s no place for Depeche Mode and the Sisters of Mercy in the music I make with my band. If I was a fan, I wouldn’t want to hear that on a Black Veil Brides record. It was important for me and for the integrity of the band not to tarnish it.

Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

If the world’s a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.

Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.

What having a child – and especially a daughter – has done is lifted more of the veil for me: allowed me to see things on another level compared to how I used to see them.

My biggest love has always been the music Black Veil Brides make, but that doesn’t mean I don’t listen to or enjoy other things.

In France, we respect women: we don’t beat them; we don’t ask them to hide themselves behind a veil as if they were impure.

We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.

The beauty of comedy is, when people come to a comedy club, there is a certain veil of reality suspended.

There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.

Everyone thinks footballers have a great life and drive great cars, but sometimes you have to pull the veil away and look behind.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It’s as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.

I always imagine myself as a bride who will wear a gown, with a long train and veil.

I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a ‘Gray Lady.’ We wore a veil and a gray dress.

Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don’t think could get up in the morning.

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

Muslim women deplore misogyny just as western women do, and they know that Islamic societies also oppress them; why wouldn’t they? But liberation, for them does not encompass destroying their identity, religion, or culture, and many of them want to retain the veil.

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, – a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.

Some of the food in Liquor is food I’ve really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.

A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.

There are keyboard terrorists everywhere who hide behind a veil of anonymity to pursue their vicious slanders.