Quotes about masking (12 Quotes)



    The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war... War has a way of masking the stage with scenery crudely daubed with fearsome apparitions.

    We were that generation called ''silent,'' but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.

    Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

    The continued weakness in the North American economy and the strengthening U.S. dollar overseas are masking otherwise significant improvement in Office Depot's operating results, and our progress toward making Office Depot a more compelling place to work, shop and invest,




    Elaborate business structures, even forms of compliance with modern risk management and corporate governance principles, can have the effect of masking or distorting the underlying moral judgements.




    I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.



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