#reveal

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him. ↗

— James Lane Allen

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I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human. ↗

— Bruce Greenwood

#courageous #decision #everybody #exists #fear

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#autobiography #bad #except #his #memory

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#darkness #glass #light #like #only

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that. ↗

— Julian Sands

#existence #five #go #human #human existence

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them? ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#enclose #equal #equal right #formations #great

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion. ↗

— Paul Simon

#eye #fashion #get #heart #hearts