Quotes about Cover Ups

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble. Votes: 4

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up. Votes: 4

Trees cover up a multitude of sins. Votes: 3

The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak. Votes: 3

There's some things you can cover up. And there's some things you can't. Votes: 3

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn. Votes: 3

I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up. Votes: 3

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country. Votes: 3

See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do. Votes: 3

The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep. Votes: 3

I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other. Votes: 3

They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now. Votes: 3

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you. Votes: 3

As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up. Votes: 3

With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well. Votes: 3

Give people, including yourself, clear permission to make mistakes . . . and to fix the problems. Since nobody's perfect, mistakes should be allowed. Cover-ups shouldn't. Cover-ups create twice the trouble. Votes: 3

A fundamental lesson on being fired: Never lie about it. People will know what you're saying is a cover-up for how you really feel - embarrassed, discouraged, and afraid. Votes: 3

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away. Votes: 3

The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal. Votes: 3

If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling we would all get real motivated to deal with the source of what ails us. Votes: 3

If you cannot be at ease with yourself when alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. You can be sure that the unease will then reappear in some other form within the relationship, and you will probably hold your partner responsible for it. Votes: 3

Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to - alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person - you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain. Votes: 3

Frequently what we say is rest is merely laziness. Our body requires respite and so does our mind and spirit. But a person should never rest because of a laziness which arises from the evil nature in his emotion. How often laziness and emotional distaste for work join to employ physical fatigue as a cover-up. Votes: 3

Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. Votes: 3

All your personalities are absolute cover-ups, hiding your individuality. Votes: 0

In the Mexico we want, there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity. Votes: 0

I'm sick of the cover-ups, I'm sick of the lies, and so are the bloody veterans, that come out daily of the department's mouth. Votes: 0

Then the trembling starts to get worse. This must be how they begin, he thinks. Freak-outs. Breakdowns. Crack-ups. Eventually shut-ins and finally cross-offs. But first the cover-up . . . Votes: 0