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There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.

There were a thousand secrets in her eyes, a thousand wounds. A lifetime of distrust and betrayal. Isolation. How did one overcome such things?

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

there  are  other  senses  -­  secret  senses,  sixth  senses,  if  you  will  -­  equally  vital,  but  unrecognized,  and  unlauded.

The Right said, [Barack Obama] is lying, he's a socialist who pals around with terrorists, he's a secret Muslim and blah blah blah. That was their line. The liberals all said, He's winking at me, I can feel him winking in my direction. He wasn't winking. He said exactly who he was and he's lived that out perfectly.

The right procedure: You begin at the wrong end if you first dispute about your election. Prove your conversion, and then never doubt your election. If you cannot yet prove it, set upon a present and thorough turning. Whatever purposes be, which are secret, I am sure His promises are plain. How desperately do rebels argue! "If I am elected I shall be saved, do what I will. If not, I shall be damned, do what I can." Perverse sinner, will you begin where you should end?

The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness.

The sad thing is that often when you expose your secrets and become more honest with yourself, you find the reaction from the outside world is more complicated than the intense guilt you yourself have inflicted.

The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.

The saints' deep secret is this: do not seek freedom, and freedom will be given you.

The scope of our cybersecurity problem is enormous. Our government, our businesses, our trade secrets and our citizens' most sensitive information are all facing constant cyberattacks and reviews by the enemy.

The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

The secret angels of God are only as alive as the marble angels of Michelangelo!

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.

The secret in the search for meaning is to find your passion and pursue it.

The secret is to enjoy being you.

The secret is to know how to lie" he used to say, " and to know when someone's lying to you". His father, Steve eventually decided, must have known how to lie.

The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

The secret is to start a story near the ending.

The Secret is within you.

The secret Ive lived by ever since I started earning money is this: Always buy a house with an extra bedroom adjoining the master. And thats always my closet.

The secret of a balanced life is to live each moment in the right spiritual frame of mind.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

The secret of all those who make discoveries is that they regard nothing as impossible.

The secret of a person's success is discovered in their daily agenda.

The secret of art is love.

The secret of a successful relationship is avoiding the unforgivable and forgiving the unavoidable.

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish.

The secret of endurance is to remember that your pain is temporary but your reward will be eternal.

The secret of freedom, courage.

The secret of friendship is expressing kindness with your eyes and through the tone of your voice, not only with words.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.

The secret behind every godly man and woman is their belief in the truth that they have been forgiven. ... Even when they say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing, or have a wrong thought, they continue to be forgiveness-conscious.

The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.

The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced.

The secret gem of truth has been hidden in the core of your own heart all along. My invitation is to stop all movement of your mind away from truth so that you can discover directly, for yourself, this jewel that is alive within you.

The secret ingredient to sex is love.

The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.

The secret is to get a good cinematographer and a very good assistant director. If you get those and stay out of their way, and have good actresses, the script doesn't even have to be that extraordinary.

The secret is to remain true to your aesthetic vision, so that people can see that you really believe passionately in what you are doing. That way, they can relate to your style. At the same time, you experiment-you try new things.

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.

The secret of all failure is disobedience.

The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.

The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.