Concealing Quotes

People actually live with their id exposed. They`re not good at concealing what`s going on inside.

If you`re working in a high-crime neighborhood, and you see a person on a street corner hitching his belt up in a way that he would if he were concealing a handgun, you would want to examine that situation more closely. Or if you were patrolling a known drug-sales zone at three in the morning and saw somebody on their cell phone, you would want to look into that. But if you get to the fifth or sixth situation, and everybody that you have come across to this point has been black, you`re going to second-guess yourself.

Here's my theory about meetings and life; the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity. That's why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say, `Mmmmmm. Interesting.` If pressed, they'll add, `I'll have to get back to you on that.` Then they don't say anything else.

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it

Originality is the art of concealing your sources

Deep in my heart I`m concealing things that I`m longing to say. Scared to confess what I`m feeling - frightened you`ll slip away.

Don`t join the book burners. Don`t think you`re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don`t be afraid to go in your library and read every book...