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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.
A blessing in disguise, is right before our eyes. But since it is in disguise, we don't know that it's there.
When I got to jail, it was a blessing in disguise because it made me reevaluate and check who I am as a person.
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
The Euro Sceptics are the English National Party in disguise, and they have poor old David Cameron over a barrel.
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.
No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.
I just pack up my pantry with lots of Oreos and other chocolate treats to disguise the fact that I don't have Tim Tams.
I've always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise.
Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.
Someone said that friends are angels in disguise. If this is true, I have been surrounded by angels for most of my life.
No one consciously wants to destroy themselves. It always comes in a disguise. But then you have to deal with it some way.
The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves.
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.
Somebody said to me once that Chvrches was an emo band in disguise, but nobody had figured it out yet, and I thought, 'You're not wrong!'
I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.
My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then throw me in the pasture. Cows bit me all over.
Trayvon exposed a lot of things. I think something positive will come out of it. It's a blessing in disguise. And he will never be forgotten.
Scammers and spammers use spoofing to disguise their identity, to trick consumers into answering unwanted calls, and to hide from authorities.
I have always dressed somewhat well - not because I work at GQ - but because my wife is amazing at finding clothes that disguise my waistline.
Looking back now I realise that the worst things that happened to me were the best things in disguise - I just didn’t know how to read the signs.
The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.
It's really hard to truly want people who you hate to have the right to say whatever they want. And we all disguise the ugly self-centeredness of it.
I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I'm disgustingly earnest.
The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.
People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.
With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed.
I think all of us have enemies in disguise, but there is nothing much you can do about that. You have to live with it. I just do my own thing and let the enemies be.
After 2012, I'm pretty much out of the media and entertainment business. But yes, I was the outsider and no, it wasn't a handicap. To me, it was a blessing in disguise.
Superman looks exactly the same when he puts his glasses on and combs his hair... And everyone acts like it's someone else. I don't buy it. Batman has a proper disguise.
We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.
A long time ago, you couldn't say what you mean in blues. You had to disguise it, and that's where the double entendres and humour comes from and that's where we come from.
I was always in disguise. I'd wear masks or weird get-ups so you couldn't recognize me. I was always afraid that if somebody caught on that it was me, I'd never work again.
Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
I got into a car accident and couldn't play baseball, hockey, and basketball. We stuck with golf for a little while, and it's panned out. I think it was a blessing in disguise.
I posed as an album-cover designer and photographer... That I today have some album covers and photographs to show for myself is a monument to the attention-to-detail of my disguise.
When you're famous, you can't go to Topshop. Even when I disguise myself in a moustache, baseball cap, sunglasses - the full Madonna kit - it doesn't work: my stupid face is too big.
I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.
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.