Best 3188 quotes in «secret quotes» category

The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who found them; a healing power, a solution, like the breaking of a barrier. He thought, perhaps the basic secret the scientists have not discovered, the first fount of life, is that which happens when a thought takes shape in words.

The privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen - a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a life.

The problem is fundamental... It is as if a secret committee, now lost to history, has made a study of children and, having figured out what the greatest number were least disposed to declared that all of them should do it.

The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth.

The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear.

The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.

The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.

The reader has information about the characters that the characters themselves don't have. We all have our secret sides. Even I come to understand things about the characters only through the writing process, as I am going along.

The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.

The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.

The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it's really all about the people

The real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself.

The real secret of patience is to find something to do in the meantime.

The real secret to guacamole is that you use exactly the elements that you need, which is cilantro, onion, tomato, and jalapenos. And, of course, avocado.

The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say.

The real secret of happiness is simply this: to be willing to live and let live, and to know very clearly in one's own mind that the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.

The real secret of power is consciousness of power.

The real secrets start leaking out when there are too many secrets because people can't remember what's a real secret. There's a very famous line by National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy: "If you guard your toothbrushes and your diamonds with equal zeal, you'll lose fewer toothbrushes and more diamonds." And that's where we are right now.

The real secret to my success was I could shoot with either hand. Ironically, I became ambidextrous as a direct result of breaking my right hand.

The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer.

There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.

There are few master teachers in life. ... But there are many who can listen to life so well that they can hear the vastness in everything and in you. A teacher is someone who has learned to listen to life. Someone who has found a way to listen well. Any real teacher is only a finger pointing. In the end, we may find out more by not following our teachers but by following what our teachers follow for themselves. From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secrets of life. You will have to listen for yourself.

There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed. In me somewhere there is a matrix for mankind and a holograph for the whole world. Nothing is more important in my life than trying to discover these secrets.

There are many more secrets in the world that are waiting to be found. The question of how many secrets exist in our world is roughly equivalent to how many startups people should start.

There are many reasons, of course, why someone might snap their fingers and grin. If you heard some pleasing music, for instance, you might snap your fingers and grin to demonstrate that the music had charms that could soothe your savage breast. If you were employed as a spy, you might snap your fingers and grin in order to deliver a message in secret snapping-and-grinning code.

There are many secrets; don’t try to resolve them all.

There are many things I can do, but I have to narrow it down to the one thing I must do. The secret of concentration is elimination.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.

There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.

There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man's multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance with his desires. He be a thin wire which gathers little energy and carries a weak current, or he may be a heavy one. That is true of all energy borrowed from the universe by all of us. It is there in unlimited quantities, but the gauge of the kind of wire each of us is set by ourselves.

There are no safe rooms, no safe truths, no safe secrets to tell.

There are no secrets anymore. The governments, the Chinese, the Americans, the Japanese, the Russians, just the governments alone can move right into anybody's mind, any computer, anything, and pick out the information.

There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should do. Success is not doing the things you know you should not do.

There are no secrets about England - they are searching for positives.

There are no secrets on an successful software project. Both good and bad news must be able to move up and down the ptoject hierarchy without restriction.

There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living.

There are only two secrets to a slimmer shape ... High heels and shoulder pads!

There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind.

There are secrets that ravage you, others that make you stronger.

There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.

There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.

There are secrets I will take to the grave and others I'd feel safer having cremated.

There are secret passages all around you if you know where to look for them.

There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.

There are street artists. Street musicians. Street actors. But there are no street physicists. A little known secret is that a physicist is one of the most employable people in the marketplace - a physicist is a trained problem solver.

There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest: but there is seldom one in which a man should tell it all.

There are some secrets we keep because we can't bear to let them out and some because it's better to keep them in.

There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life.