Best 3188 quotes in «secret quotes» category

It matters not what goal you seek - its secret here reposes: you've got to dig from week to week - to get results on roses.

It may be a secret sin on earth, but it is open scandal in heaven.

It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.

It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future.

I told him that I loved him and that I'd always love him and I felt like a child who throws a centavo into a fountain and then she has to tell someone her most extraordinary wish even though she knows that the wish should be kept secret and that, in telling it, she is quite probably losing it. He replied that I was not to worry, that the penny could come out of the fountain again and again and again.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

I trust in due time to lay the perfidy, meanness, and wickedness of [Henry] Clay naked before the American people. I have lately got an intimation of some of his secret movements, which, if I can reach with positive and responsible proof, I will wield to his political, and perhaps his actual, destruction.

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

I try to imagine keeping something like that a secret for my whole life. It would be like always wearing a mask over your face, which everyone believed was the real you. You would be the only person who knew it wasn't--and who knew that you could never take it off.

I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character.

It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.

It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used to, mainly because it's like you are deconstructing it all the time.

It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment.

It’s a simple truth that a secret is something you’re ashamed of.

It’s been a secret too long, but I’m actually a straight male.

It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars, have a horrendous performance record in later life.

It seems to me in a general sense we as a society are enamored with the mystical, mysterious, the unseen & unknown. We are looking for the hidden teaching, the secret scroll or fountain of youth, and of course heaven and hell.

It's funny to think about the uncanny reflexively, as an author who is perhaps gradually becoming aware of my own hidden secrets. Accessing that shadowy territory really requires the physical act of writing.

It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.

It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later.

It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.

It's important to talk about it. You raise awareness. But you can also prevent it (child abuse) by not letting it be a secret.

It's main storytelling hell because it's really hard to keep a secret. It's really hard to not communicate. But I think that's what's great about this world is it's a world where he is off the grid, and for me, it's a way to step back.

It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.

It's like [Donald's Trump] plan to defeat ISIS. He says it's a secret plan, but the only secret is that he has no plan.

It's nearly every country's tactic to keep their greatest competitors a secret.

It's no secret that Europeans and Americans win most Nobel prizes.

It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.

It's no secret that this is the only place I've ever wanted to work. When people ask me where I went to school, I tell them WWE University.

It's no secret that my process is a little bit loose and can be a little bit infuriating to a studio if they don't know what they're signing up for.

It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.

It's no secret that my family was very, very poor, and I don't want that for my life or my children's life certainly. But some might say I could relax a bit more and know that that's not going to happen to me. I'm not going to end up in a car.

Its no secret that the Democrats and liberal media would love to take away our guns and mandate every aspect of our lives, but I refuse to let them get away with that.

It's not a big secret that what's lacking and what's wrong in our society starts with education.

It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all.

It's no secret that I am not afraid to shine bright and be festive, and I like to encourage that in others.

It's no secret that I love the Ultimate line.

It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.

It's no secret that our nation's public universities want to transform American young people into a bunch of hyper-sensitive, intellectually-neutered cream puffs.

It's not a big secret that what's lacking and what's wrong in our society starts with education. It starts with the way people are brought up, and what is put into their heads and put into their minds as engaged citizens.

It's not a confession if no one reads it. It's just an unshared secret.

It's not any huge secret that I'm an atheist.

It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112

It's not really that much of a big deal - you brush it off and you come back. Defeat is the secret ingredient to success.

It's not what you see on-screen that makes a performance. It's the things you should never know about - it's the secrets.

It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.

It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.

It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.

It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

It's secret that evangelical Christians are critical players in Republican primaries.