63 Veil Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Life Personal Life About Veil Like Talking Personal Really Certain Amount

Lawyers, judges, doctors, shrinks, accountants, investigators and, not least, journalists could not do the most basic tasks without a veil of secrecy. Why shouldn't the same be true of those professionals who happen to be government officials? George Packer

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And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may be an engineer or a diplomat or a doctor. Or she may be an unbelievable babe with bleached hair down to her waist. Geraldine Brooks

You Woman Doctor Engineer Will Hair Down Think One Of The Things Diplomat Unbelievable About Veil Over Know She Learned Because Waist May Story Again Confound Her Things Babe

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. Giraldus Cambrensis

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. Gwen Ifill

Me Democracy You Eyes Simple November Will Say Would Ripped Restoring Proper Sometime Simple Reason Veil Between Like Voters Know House Course Version Senate Reason Thereby Now

Most people divorce because one in the couple falls in love with someone else: it's a common cause of divorce. I still think that it's tinted - this is my opinion - with a veil of racism and American puritanism. Isabella Rossellini

Love Racism People Cause Think Else Someone Puritanism Divorce Veil Most Couple Because Opinion Still Falls American Common Common Cause

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

Strong Believe Other Side Ancestors Veil Influence Us Beloved Pull

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. Jason Isbell

Me Daughter See Having More Lifted Allowed Veil Another How Child Done Them Used Compared Level Things

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. John Tavener

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

Seen Mysteries Veil Like Feminine Still Want Themselves

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. Katharine Viner

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

Silence Speak Fall Too Out Veil Over Happened Afterwards

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. Maria Monk

Before Rich Took Chapel Dress About Had Veil Perhaps Altar Occasions Clothed Convent Which Placed Far Ceremony View Used Forty Who Spectators Belonging Number

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane. Marilyn Monroe

Wear Never Veil Over Like Just Wanted Happened Marilyn

We are not a land of Islam. In our country, we don't wear djellaba clothing, we don't wear a veil, and we don't impose cathedral-sized mosques. Marion Marechal-Le Pen

Country Islam Our Wear Veil Mosque Impose Clothing Land

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. Mary Ritter Beard

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.' Maysoon Zayid

News Me Woman Hurt Seriously Think Other Relate Easier See Wearing Seeing Scary Veil Mass Mass Media Because Makes Audience Wants Helps Keep Media Fox Career Fox News

Some forms of veil are justified by the idea that you're not tempting men. Well how about men just behaving and keeping their hands to yourselves? How about, instead of criticizing how I dress, respecting me and my right to the public space? Mona Eltahawy

Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil. Nawal El Saadawi

Postmodern Veil Surgery Plastic Plastic Surgery

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. Patrick Chappatte

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. Paul Ryan

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