#veil

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#compliment #kiss #like #something #through

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror? ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#civil-rights #osama-bin-laden #surveillance #terrorism #war-on-terror

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

#below #continue #critics #enjoy #even

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

#close #cover #crown #cut #ears

It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of civilization that comes between us as much as it makes life possible. A poor substitute for the sort of passion we like to extol perhaps, but real love shares more in common with hatred and rage than it does with geniality or politeness. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#passion #tear #veil #violence #life

Last week in the Homeland Security Committee, Republicans were against port security; and today, one week after Democrats unveiled our Real Security Agenda, they're for it. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#against #agenda #committee #democrats #homeland

There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens. ↗

— John Conyers

#better #citizens #crisis #engage #fact

There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see. ↗

— Edward Fitzgerald

#found #i #key #might #see

I did surveillance a lot, which sounds exciting, but it never was. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#exciting #i #lot #never #sounds

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#future #hidden #impenetrable #pierce #struggle