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  • The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination, and whether these poor people would not fare far better if they were entrusted to the devils in Hell than they do at the hands of the devils of the New World who masquerade as Christians.

  • Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death.

  • Let's be honest. You let yourself be pulled in because it felt good to be wanted, needed. But then it went too far, as projected images always do. If it's not a real image, but one that has been projected on to you, then you can keep up the masquerade for only so long before the mask cracks and the paint on the mask peels away.

    Real   Long   Cracks  
    Tori Amos, Ann Powers (2008). “Tori Amos: Piece by Piece”, p.299, Crown Archetype
  • And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

  • Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying “yes” begins things. Saying “yes” is how things grow. Saying “yes” leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say “yes'.

    Wise   Hurt   Optimistic  
    Knox College Commencement Address, departments.knox.edu. June 03, 2006.
  • It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.

    Facts   Kind   Politician  
  • I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. It's like a Story of O. I am not big on women looking naive. There has to be a sinister aspect, whether it's melancholy of sadomasochist. I think everyone has a deep sexuality, and sometimes it's good to use a little of it-and sometimes a lot of it-like a masquerade.

  • Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.

    Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books
  • The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. Nothing could have been more helpful to the success of the National-Socialist (Nazi) movement than the methods used by the "progressives," denouncing Nazism as a party serving the interests of "capital." The German workers knew this tactic too well to be deceived by it again.

  • Yeah, I was at the Masquerade of the Damned.

    Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.182, Penguin
  • The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

    Life   Time   Party  
  • Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

    Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”
  • The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.

  • And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies.

    Eye   Spy   Bishops  
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.231
  • The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.

  • Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?

    Ann-Marie Macdonald (2010). “Fall on Your Knees”, p.518, Vintage Canada
  • Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.

    Mind   Lovely   Littles  
  • Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.

    Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.39, Penguin
  • Euphemisms, like fashions, have their day and pass, perhaps to return at another time. Like the guests at a masquerade ball, they enjoy social approval only so long as they retain the capacity for deception.

  • I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.

    Believe   Vampire   Balls  
    Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.159, Penguin
  • Because these consequences are distributed globally, the problem masquerades as a distraction. Because the length of time between causes and consequences stretches out longer than we're used to dealing with, it gives us the illusion that we have the luxury of time. Neither of those things is true.

    Luxury   Giving   Causes  
    ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.
  • The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want.” This isn’t love at all - it is attachment - and attachment is rigid, it is very different from love.

    Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.102, Shambhala Publications
  • During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

    Peace   War   Hatred  
    Howard Thurman (2012). “Jesus and the Disinherited”, p.74, Beacon Press
  • Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.

    Hurt   Optimistic   Self  
    "Stephen Colbert Commencement Address". Transcript of remarks to graduating seniors at Knox College, departments.knox.edu. June 2006.
  • What masquerades as sex education is not education at all. It is selective propaganda which artificially encourages children to participate in adult sex, while it censors out the facts of life about the unhappy consequences. It is robbing children of their childhood.

  • For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.

    Jobs   Writing   Weekend  
  • Days I kept busy with fractured angels' client masquerades.

    Angel   Clients   Massage  
    Olga Broumas (1999). “Rave: poems, 1975-1999”, Copper Canyon Pr
  • A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

  • Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.

  • He had fangs. So what? Plenty of things not a Dark-Hunter have fangs, including Hollywood actors and kids playing vampire. You should have checked his membership card before you attacked. Good grief, what if you’d run across a Masquerade group?” – Sundown

    Running   Grief   Kids  
    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.99, Macmillan
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