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Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation.
Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.
While it's nice to appreciate the fashion world... what makes you happy are real relationships and the moments you share with loved ones.
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.
As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.
My biggest flaw is probably my attention span or lack thereof. And while it might seem contradictory, my biggest strength is my work ethic.
I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our community while protecting our environment.
While we're filming 'Bake Off,' I can get really cold, so I'm often holding a hot-water bottle or layered up under an anorak and a warm hat.
Often times, when you find an edge, it's not for very long. People figure it out, so you have to try and exploit it, quickly, while you can.
We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.
I published 'Rules of Civility' while I was still working. It became a best seller. I was working on this book, and then I decided to retire.
While my life shifts from refugee camps to red carpets, I choose them both because these worlds can, in fact, coexist. And for me, they must.
You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings.
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.
To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
Some of the shoes I have are from movies - I have my workman's boots from 'While You Were Sleeping' - while others are shoes I've had forever.
Advances in automation, artificial intelligence and robotics, while increasing productivity, will also cause major upheavals to the workforce.
Marie Cornelie Falcon, who lost her voice while performing - singing the line 'Je suis pret' - 'I am ready.' How much more tragic can you get?
It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!
While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.
Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.
Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.
Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.
Play the black card expertly, and you can win awards, make millions - all the while claiming that the people who got you there somehow hate you.
In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference.
In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.
Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.
Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while.