#disguise

It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#code #costume #differ #disguise #hard

NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#brian #comic #disguise #nbc #standup

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#disguise #war

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#each #jesus #them

I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny ↗

— Sam Shepard

#faith #idenity #lies #lying #masks

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#disguised #form #minor #virtue

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#been #bit #blessing #democratic #disguise

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#consistent #disguised #selfishness #sympathy #virtue

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#disguise #free #free time #handle #life

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#disguised #faced #great #insoluble #insoluble problems