Cover Quotes - page 3

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, "Ha! My perception, my accounting for that series, will indeed cover its next and future components," or "Next time I meet with these phenomena, I shall be able to predict their total course." (Gregory Bateson)
Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune. ~~ Yet pity is a vexed question. View quote
Georges Bernanos
People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity. (from inside the cover) View quote
Douglas Coupland
No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so after his day's work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word "intuition. View quote
Isaac Asimov
A rich bank account did not mean rich ideas; in fact, often the reverse. The bigger your ass, the more you want to cover it. View quote
Gregory Benford
How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining? A multitude of animal people, intimately related to us, but of whose lives we know almost nothing, are as busy about their own affairs as we are about ours. View quote
John Muir
Life is a business that does not cover the costs. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite. View quote
Werner Heisenberg
Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence. View quote
Virginia Woolf
The best AC/DC cover I've heard? There was an all-girl cover band in America, the Hell's Belles. (Angus Young)
I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but I received strength, it tears the world apart. I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores and a young wave will cover my trace. View quote
Czesław Miłosz
It seems to me that if God had intended for you to cover your face then, in His wisdom, He would have provided you with a flap of skin for the purpose. View quote
Pat Condell
My construction will cover the entire Universe. View quote
Sathya Sai Baba
Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement. View quote
Dan Quayle
The very act of thinking about power in our lives and experiences creates a process of revelation and self-analysis that may even make us look at ourselves in a new light... thinking about power and its complex manifestations may not simply lead to a better understanding of the abstract complexities of society, but may have an effect on one‟s own image and identity. Perhaps a warning label should be placed on the cover... View quote
Kenneth Boulding
You can cover a great deal of country in books. View quote
Andrew Lang
At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions, these changing features fix a precise quality onto a book's definition. I judge a book by its cover; I judge a book by its shape. View quote
Alberto Manguel
It's the responsibility of men of religion to ... present religion as a way of tolerance, not as a cover for bloodshed. View quote
Salam Fayyad
Not body enough to cover his mind decently with his intellect is improperly exposed. View quote
Sydney Smith
Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly. (Homer)
I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and view oneself as a social outcast or someone struggling to stay alive. View quote
Günter Brus
Cover that bosom that I must not see: Souls are wounded by such things. View quote
Molière
Throughout our long and sorry history it has been men who supposed themselves to be exemplars of integrity who have done all the damage. Every crusade, whether for decent literary standards or to cover women's bodies or to free the holy land, had been launched, endorsed, and enthusiastically perpetrated by men of character. View quote
Jack McDevitt
Oh would I were dead now, Or up in my bed now, To cover my head now, And have a good cry! View quote
Thomas Hood