A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Horace
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
George Will
A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.
Charles Ives
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
Quentin Tarantino
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
Walter Lippmann
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
Donald Kagan
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Victor Hugo
Although I know it's unfair I reveal myself one mask at a time.
Stephen Dunn
An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.
Robert Bork
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
Edward de Bono
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
Henry David Thoreau
But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.
Anne Hutchinson
But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.
Donna Rice
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Leonard Cohen
Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.
James Lane Allen
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
James Allen
Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her.
Richard Carlson
Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
Rupert Brooke
Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
Pierre Corneille
Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.
Bryant H. McGill
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