Quotes about Cover Up

I like to wear sleeves because they cover up my arms. Votes: 4

I wouldn't want a tattoo at all. They're difficult to cover up. Votes: 4

Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that. Votes: 4

Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about. Votes: 4

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: 4

Trees cover up a multitude of sins. Votes: 3

You can't cover up the swagger of a cowboy. Votes: 3

My long hair just can't cover up my redneck. Votes: 3

Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins. Votes: 3

There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder. Votes: 3

It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word "intuition. Votes: 3

Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity. Votes: 3

All the makeup in this world can never cover up an empty brain. Votes: 3

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

In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented. Votes: 3

Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest. Votes: 3

Being Overconfident often exists when one tries to cover up one's insecurities without facing them. Votes: 3

I think Donald Trump is trying to use populist rhetoric to cover up a right-wing agenda. Votes: 3

He found a new way to cover up his bad breath. He holds up his arms. Votes: 3

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

Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it. Votes: 3

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

That's what God does. He doesn't try to cover up our flaws; He starts from scratch and makes us new. Votes: 3

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor. Votes: 3

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor. Votes: 3

Most people use excuses to cover up mistakes, but it takes less time to do something right the first time. Votes: 3

Bones, what is everyone doing in here? Spade, cover up. Frigging vampires think everyone wants to see what they've got." ~Cat Votes: 3

We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die. Votes: 3

Whenever we just try to please ourselves, all we do is cover up another window in the little house we're stuck in. Votes: 3

Darkness has the ability to cover up; light has the ability to uncover! Darkness is the enemy of truth; light is the friend of truth! Votes: 3

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks. 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

You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes. Votes: 3

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind. Votes: 3

It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking of their word. Votes: 3

Most friendly fire incidents aren't investigated properly because of neglect or a natural inclination to cover up the embarrassing fact that they killed one of their own. Votes: 3

The same old hypocrisy. Life is a fight, and the strongest wins. All civilization does is hide the blood and cover up the hate with pretty words! Votes: 3

There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet. Votes: 3

The New Testament doesn't present Jesus as a single man to cover up his humanity. It presents him as a single man because... he was a single man. Votes: 3

I don't think that any government has a right to subvert the truth or to cover up the truth, and all I see WikiLeaks doing is exposing the truth. Votes: 3

President Bush is in the hot seat over Iraqi pre-war intelligence. Remember the good ol' days when the only thing the president was trying to cover up was a stain? Votes: 3

At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression. Votes: 3

Some of the imperfections will be visible, but this house has been here a long time. I see no reason to cover up the dings and scars. We've all got 'em. Votes: 3

Disney is just Disney. It's a company that's very good at what it does - controlling and promoting an image - until something happens that it can't control or cover up. Votes: 3

A good friend will help you to discover the potentials you haven't uncovered. A bad friend will help you to cover up the potentials you have already recovered. Make your choice! Votes: 3

We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside. Votes: 3

I would push for more production and Steve Miller would say, "Why do you want to have more production when you have real songs? You don't want to cover up the song." Votes: 3

Paris Hilton has launched a new champagne in a can called Rich Prosecco. For the ad campaign Paris posed wearing nothing but gold paint. That’s a unique way to cover up herpes. Votes: 3

You don't ever want to appear like you're wearing too much makeup. If you have a heavy eye and a heavy lip, people are like, 'Wow, what are you trying to cover up?' Votes: 3

Frazier was not a big man at all. Frazier was about 5'9, but he would make anyone run. Put up your dukes and cover up because he's coming. He never backed up from anyone. Votes: 3

This is deeply disturbing. Congress provided loans to help businesses hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks, not to be used as an accounting gimmick to cover up this administration's failure to provide for small businesses. Votes: 3

When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought. Votes: 3

When I was starring as Roxie Hart in 'Chicago,' I got my stiletto heel caught in my fishnet tights and fell flat on my face. It was incredibly painful and not something you can cover up. Votes: 3

The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with the reader, not to cover up the truth but to deliver it obliquely. Votes: 3

Even if you know that what you'll say will hurt a woman's feelings, I've learned that it's better to be truthful with her than it is to cover up. Ultimate honesty is what a relationship is really about. Votes: 3

She [Hillary Clinton] put her emails on a secret server to cover up her pay-for-play scandals in the State Department. Nothing threatens the integrity of our democracy more than when government officials put their public office up for sale. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the 'smoking gun' tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up. Votes: 3

The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned. 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

Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the sauce! Where food comes beslobbered with an elegant slime you may well suspect the integrity of the basic ingredients. Votes: 3

Why is there such vanity about hair? I make a point to bathe. I worry about boogers in my nose, and I ask the makeup artist to cover up my pimples, but beyond that, I try not to be too vain. Votes: 3

I believe that presidents up through and including George Bush have known that Americans were left alive and in violation of law, these high officials and certain of their appointed subordinates have continued and perpetrated a cover up of this reality. Votes: 3

It's been my experience when you lie things work out in such a way that you are obliged to tell many more lies to cover up your first one. It's so much easier to just tell the truth the first time around. Votes: 3

I think bare legs in winter are idiotic. Unless your naked pins are toned, tanned and veinless, it's best to cover up. There is nothing more elegant in winter than dark tights worn with matching knee-length boots and a belted trench coat. Votes: 3

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. Votes: 3

When I turned 30, I just started getting pimples out of nowhere. I do sometimes break out on my chin. So I just use a little RCMA Foundation to cover up a blemish and that's it. I don't do a full face of makeup. Votes: 3

On my iPad, and I'm quite a fool for this, but I use Post-It notes to cover up the camera. It's just weird with that little eye there and sometimes it'll be green and I know I didn't turn it on. It's very spooky. Votes: 3

Success achieved by the most contemptible means cannot but destroy the soul. ... It helps to cover up the inner corruption and gradually dulls one's scruples, so that those who begin with some high ambition cannot, even if they would, create anything out of themselves. Votes: 3

Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie. Votes: 3

Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up. Votes: 3

But when a man suspects any wrong it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said nothing and tried to think nothing. Votes: 3

When I was 14, I almost had a big green leprechaun tattooed on my forearm. Thank God I didn't - it would have been a nightmare to cover up as an actor. I went with a group of mates and, being Irish, thought a leprechaun would be perfect. 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

When I was 14, I almost had a big green leprechaun tattooed on my forearm. Thank God I didnt - it would have been a nightmare to cover up as an actor. I went with a group of mates and, being Irish, thought a leprechaun would be perfect. Votes: 3

I know our congressmen hasn't done it, has anybody put a server in their basement? Oh boy, Hillary Clinton's only - Hillary Clinton's only experience in cyber security involves her criminal scheme to violate federal law, engineering a massive cover up and putting the entire nation in harm's way. Votes: 3

History can never be covered up. Votes: 2

I think growth covers up mistakes. Votes: 2

The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak. Votes: 2

And, believe me; they will do everything to cover this up. Votes: 2

I love cover songs, but I always mess up the words! Votes: 2

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up. Votes: 2

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate. Votes: 2

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble. Votes: 2

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up. Votes: 2

Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots. Votes: 2

I'm inspired by people who are so sensitive and vulnerable that they try to cover it up. Votes: 2

It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up. Votes: 2

I don't go to war for the adrenaline rush. I cover wars because that's what I've ended up doing. Votes: 2

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. Votes: 2

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: 2

All belief is a cover-up for insecurity Votes: 0

Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless. Votes: 0

To err is human. To cover it up is weasel. Votes: 0

Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up. Votes: 0

Some people say "if we split up,we can cover more ground"-with blood Votes: 0

The cover-up, more than the initial wrongdoing, is what is most likely to bring you down. Votes: 0

In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up. Votes: 0

Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence? Votes: 0

I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up. Votes: 0

One time I actually cleaned out my closet so good I ended up on the cover of Time magazine. Votes: 0

It's a violent world we live in. I don't agree with trying to hide that or cover it up. Votes: 0

Big fires flare up in a wind, but little ones are blown out unless they are carried in under cover. Votes: 0

Those who gave the orders, oversaw the killings, and ordered the subsequent cover-up have yet to be arrested and prosecuted. Votes: 0

I know now it is children who accept life; grown people cover it up and pretend it is different with drinks. Votes: 0

I'm prone to getting dark circles under my eyes when I'm tired, so I l use cover-up and instantly feel more confident. Votes: 0

Agh-uhh!" the baboon grunted. He turned and waddled up the stairs. Unfortunately, the Lakers jersey didn't completely cover his multicolored rear. Votes: 0

When I did the cover of 'Cosmo International,' Turkey picked it up and I got a lot of backlash for it. Votes: 0

To shoot a decent fight, you need to cover all the different angles, and it ends up eating a lot of days. Votes: 0

Oh would I were dead now, Or up in my bed now, To cover my head now, And have a good cry! Votes: 0

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it. Votes: 0

God is so big He can cover the whole world with His love, and so small He can curl up inside your heart. Votes: 0

Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up. Votes: 0

Every man is sensitive. Some cover it up with brutality, others with cowardice and vanity, but a small few wear it bravely like armor Votes: 0

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: 0

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: 0

And the Zionists have used the Holocaust as a weapon to deny the rights of the Palestinians and to cover-up the crimes of Israel. Votes: 0

The dentist drills some more and you hear him make a mistake. And to cover it up, they all say the same thing: "Okay, rinse." Votes: 0

I feel that's important that I have some place to go that isn't on the cover of a magazine. I signed up to make music. Votes: 0

I have excellent information and proof relating to conduct of the FBI, .. I can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this case is an FBI cover-up. Votes: 0

The US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. Votes: 0

Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. Votes: 0

You cover Q-tips with sandpaper and ram them up your nostrils as far as they will go. Then you sniff talcum powder while shredding hundred dollar bills. Votes: 0

Any moment you're willing to give up your fig leaves, which you think are covering you, God will give you His righteousness, which will really cover you. 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

I grew up on the beaches, and I always found it kind of funny that it's considered decent if you cover three tiny spots with pieces of fabric. Votes: 0

I asked Bob Dylan to paint the album cover for 'Music from Big Pink.' He said, 'Yeah, let me see what I can come up with.' Votes: 0

Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of Life, he's still a studious guy. Votes: 0

I used to wear a lot of red lipstick, and when I got a pimple, I'd cover it up with eyeliner to turn it into a beauty mark. Votes: 0

People and dogs and cows are born to be what they are. They may cover it up for a long time, but it will come out sooner or later. Votes: 0

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: 0

One thing appears reasonably certain, and that's that those who make allegations of a culture of deception, of intimidation or cover-up need to be extremely careful about such accusations. Votes: 0

I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up. Votes: 0

... someday we'll remember so much we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up. Votes: 0

When I travel, I have to have blotting sheets. It's so much better to remove the oil than to cover it up because then your skin just looks cakey. Votes: 0

Voters who disregarded Richard Nixon's involvement in the questionable ethics issue that led to his Checkers speech should not have been surprised when he orchestrated the Watergate cover-up as president. Votes: 0

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: 0