At a time when Hurricane Katrina has raised the veil on the ugly specter of American inequality, it's wrong to pull so much money out of the federal budget to benefit a few members of the super-rich.
Lee Farris
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The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
De Witt Clinton
You know what's nice? You can still see the back with that veil.
Pat Mozdzen
I'm sure Kenny (Goss) and I will be doing the old legal thing, but we won't be doing the whole veil and gown thing. It'll be relatively soon after it comes in, probably early next year.
George Michael
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Victor Hugo
[Autry also directly criticized Parks. He said the FPOA] has had some good leaders who put the community first. ... we are seeing a big departure from that ... Parks would rather operate behind a veil of secrecy, which is not good for the public or the Police Department.
Alan Autry
We spent two weeks that I call two weeks of tears--my veil of tears.
Brock Peters
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.
Edward Chapin
In a small town, there is a thin veil of anonymity.
Dale Maharidge
Give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still -- the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.
Robert Nathan
Anytime Saudis are returned under a veil of secrecy, I'm suspicious.
Charles E. Schumer
Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.
William Gurnall
Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty.
Nathaniel Emmons
[T]hose 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.
Mary Ritter Beard
Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.
Antonio Machado
This is the dance of the seven veils, and here goes another veil. The last veil will be when she finally announces.
Maurice Carroll
The tactics that the abductors are using -- showing her with a veil on, crying, asking for the release of the Iraqi prisoners -- is an unacceptable tactic. Even if the abductors believe the Iraqi women are being imprisoned unjustly, Islam does not condone two wrongs making a right.
Dawud Walid
The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.
John Bulwer
Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Our Boeing 747 has been fleeing westward from darkened California, racing across the Pacific toward the sun, the incandescent eye of God, but slowly, three hours later than West Coast time, twilight gathers outside, veil upon lilac veil.
William Manchester
Man's ego itself is Maya. It is the veil that shuts the light.
Ramakrishna
Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
George William Russell
You can't just draw a veil of secrecy when you are locking people up. You have to do at least the minimum, which is to acknowledge who you are holding.
Jamie Fellner
The time has come to lift the veil of secrecy, and let the truth emerge, so there can be a real and informed debate, about one of the most important problems facing our planet today.
Paul Hellyer
In 2006, the veil of competency that they pretended to have, the illusion of security they ran on, is no longer there. This is an election where the message is 'stand and deliver,' and they've not been able to stand and deliver.
Robert Zimmerman
Oh, treacherous night! thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.
Aaron Hill
Once he arrived this morning, he appeared to try to come off as if he was very calm and composed. But you could see that veil of nervousness about him. He would give off those nervous smiles to the various staff as we were moving him through that process.
Vernell Crittendon
The state of Florida would have never required her to take her veil off if 9-11 had not occurred.
Howard Marks
She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way and that; she must not shout; and she must not, while wearing her bridal veil, smoke a cigarette.
Emily Post
Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
Kahlil Gibran
The veil is off. India is now firmly in the US camp.
Yashwant Sinha
Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind? Veil after veil will lift -but here must be Veil upon veil behind.
Edwin Arnold
In many ways we're seeing that veil of fear is lifting. I think that we're seeing something very real happening across the region in terms of progress toward opening up societies, opening up political systems and economic systems.
Elizabeth Cheney
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