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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
I wrote about scenarios that I was going through and then disguised them.
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.
Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster.
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
I think it helped that 'Fleabag' had such a dramatic arc to it, even though it was disguised as a comedy.
Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.
We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
At this point, if I were to psychoanalyze myself, I'd have to say I am a clown, cleverly disguised as a regular person.
It's more enjoyable when I'm disguised in some way; stepping into someone else's shoes is part of the reason why I became an actor.
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.
There have been many socially conscious concept albums. I wanted to make a 'social consciousness' concept album disguised as a country record.
I'm always nervous. A classy comedian is full of self-doubt disguised with an air of false confidence. If there isn't self-doubt, you seem aggressive.
I've had a bris, was Bar Mitzvahed and, on occasion, have referred to a temple as a shul. I've never denied it, nor have I disguised it. I am, indeed, a Jew.
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism.
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
My view on Democrats is that they're fascists disguised as liberals, or liberal moderates. You're not allowed to say anything they don't agree with. You're not allowed to do anything.
I've never disguised the fact that I wasn't happy in teaching. But the reason was that I wanted to do comedy. I would have been a very unhappy security guard or a very unhappy greengrocer.
I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'
Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.
But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.
Bon Jovi's trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism; now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion.
Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.
My whole family is obsessed by brandy butter. And bread sauce. Then, of course, there will be a lot of wind in the afternoon! We have never disguised the wind side of our lives as a family; we think it's hilarious.
The battle between server and servee is as ancient as it is well disguised, and it follows, therefore, that waiters have developed a private lingo that allows them to mock, complain, or simply entertain themselves.
In 2016, Trump, with his outsized ego, his anti-immigrant and anti-trade positions, coupled with barely disguised racism and deep-seated sexism and a willingness to lie whenever it suited him, was a near perfect fit.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
'The Simpsons' basically - and 'Futurama' - are really smart shows. They're kind of disguised as these goofy animated sitcoms, but the references within the shows, if you're paying attention, are pretty smart and pretty sophisticated.
Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
