Having Secrets Quotes

#1. If people stop having secrets they stop having power.

Jonathan Lynn

#2. I'm not good at keeping secrets. If I'm entrusted with a secret from a friend, I can do that because I'm a good friend, but I don't like having secrets, it makes me nervous.

Julia Stiles

#3. I didn't like having secrets. Secrets only ended up hurting people.

Elizabeth Eulberg

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

Robert Breault

#5. the safest place to keep your secrets is to keep them in your mind with a locked tongue

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#6. Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.

Kenneth Grahame

#7. What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?

Terry Pratchett

#8. You wanted to belong. The problem was, no matter how well you kept your secret, the very fact of having one was enough to separate you from everyone else.

Lisa Kleypas

#9. Love is confusing. Your heart may race when you're together, and ache when you're apart. You will share secrets, and reveal your inner selves. You may feel he's the only one who truly understands you.

Catherine Linka

#10. So many stories yet to be told, so many secrets to be unearthed. It would happen soon; Clara would make sure of it, and if Nicholas tried to evade her, well, she still had her daggers.

Claire Legrand

#11. The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine sacraments, knew there are in everyone innate strains of [original] sin, which must be washed away through water and the Spirit

Origen

#12. Alison's grandfather told her,'To err is human, to forgive divine

Diane Griffith

#13. Life is like a roller-coaster with thrills, chills, and a sigh of relief.

Susan Bennett

#14. Whenever he's tried to dig out such secrets from her behind her mother's back, she has retreated like a tortoise into her child's shell. Children are quick to sense a threat. (From "Crows" by Mrinal Pande)

Keerti Ramachandra

#15. We all have our little secrets, and as long as they're harmless, who really cares? With time, the secrets often go away and things don't matter anymore.

John Grisham

#16. I don't need friends. All they do is eat your food, drink your beer, then spew your secrets the first time you do something that displeases them. No offense, but when you have as many enemies as I do, you keep your secrets under lock and key. (Solin)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#17. Twentieth century man must boldly reach out ... And purposefully strive to discover the hidden secrets of our universe.

John Young

#18. Secrets and lies, they eat your insides until all you have left is a hard thin skin that covers you like the shell of one of those eggs you poke a little hole in and draw out its eggy contents before you dye it for Easter.

Russell Banks

#19. All night long if you want. We'll tell our secrets to the dark.

Gayle Forman

#20. Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

Max Muller

#21. I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'

Alice Hoffman

#22. As soon as the dead started walking, they stopped sharing their secrets with the living.

Mira Grant

#23. Much of your strength as a woman can come from the resolve to replenish and fill your own well and essence first, before taking care of others.

Miranda J. Barrett

#24. But it's a whole lot easier to keep[secrets] when you've got someone else who knows breathing in the same room. Carrying them alone is like having a huge spiky weight digging into your shoulders and chest, a weight you can't shift even while you're sleeping.

Lilith Saintcrow

#25. There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.

Marilyn Monroe

#26. Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.

Dave Eggers

#27. Love's kind of like sweet tea. The secret is all in having the patience to let it steep. ~ Pearl Clemmons (Sweet Tea and Secrets)

Nancy Naigle

#28. One of the secrets a nation can unlock to have material wealth is, having a leader who will take an uncompromising stand to establish truth and honesty as a rule of building the nation

Sunday Adelaja

#29. The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#30. No one could leave the group by his or her own volition and put the group at risk of having its secrets revealed.

Judith Spencer

#31. I don't want to start the rest of my life having regrets.

Jen Calonita

#32. The secret to excitement is discovering new paths, and having the courage to take them.

Lawren Leo

#33. To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?

Anaximenes

#34. When [our secrets] are sad and hurtful secrets, like my father's death, we can in a way honor the hurt by letting ourselves feel it as we never let ourselves feel it before, and then, having felt it, by laying it aside; we can start to take care of ourselves the way we take care of people we love.

Frederick Buechner

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

Shelagh Delaney

#36. The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.

Jonathan Zittrain

#37. Being someone's best friend doesn't always mean telling them every tiny thing about yourself, you know. Sometimes it means having enough trust to let them have their secrets and still be there for them.

Liz Kessler

#38. I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.

Simon Callow

#39. Do you know what
pains me the most
about you? Do you?
Having all of that
bottled up inside
of your soul
all of those dark
secrets
that you will not
let escape your heart.
Love is the only thing
that will heal you.
Let me LOVE you.
Please.

Zuky Rose Leigh

#40. There are two secrets to a successful marriage. The first is having a husband who makes you laugh. The second is never telling your husband what you're laughing at.

John Hartnett

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

Marilyn Monroe

#42. I think," Sophia said as Max mock-scowled, "I'm going to like having a younger brother." Reaching out, she slipped her arm into the crook of River's elbow. "So, tell me all of Max's secrets.

Nalini Singh

#43. In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible.

B.G. Bowers

#44. IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.

Darl McBride

#45. Don't share your secrets if you preface them with 'just don't tell anybody.

Igor Babailov

#46. Your eyes will be brown, a color that holds secrets well.

Dawn Kurtagich

#47. The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets.

Sharon Salzberg

#48. She was spontaneous. Even in her cleverness. She never looked at people; people looked at her. It was her reward for being natural.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#49. Every portal coming into this country is being attacked by those who would harvest information, both national security secrets and just the common information of private individuals and private individuals. That crime is going on, every day, on a single entity known as the Internet.

Darrell Issa

#50. I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#51. Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.

Amy Tan

#52. One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.

J.I. Packer

#53. In an age of infinite digital documentation, paper was the last safe place for secrets.

Evan Angler

#54. I don't want to get close to people who have secrets that I don't know about.

Albert Brooks

#55. I've seen a lot of LA and I think it's also a place of secrets: secret houses, secret lives, secret pleasures. And no one is looking to the outside for verification that what they're doing is all right.

Victoria Tennant

#56. As Gansey led the way out, Noah said to Ronan, "I know why you're mad."
Ronan sneered at him, but his pulse heaved. "Tell me then, prophet."
Noah said, "It's not my job to tell other people's secrets.

Maggie Stiefvater

#57. Secrets, I've discovered, have a way of working free of their keepers.

Steve Luxenberg

#58. This love beyond time and space, it knows only it's own truth. Immortalis Amor, Darkest Secrets

Dominique Vandorien

#59. ... there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.

L.M. Montgomery

#60. I imagine her rolling onto her back, welcoming me to create secrets with her that'll never leave this room.

Colleen Hoover

#61. Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people.

Howard Zinn

#62. They say that family is the place of safety. But sometimes this is the greatest lie; family is not sanctuary, it is not safety and succour. For some of us, it is the secret wound. Sooner or later we pay for the woundings of our ancestors.

Nayomi Munaweera

#63. God abhors a naked singularity because that's when things stop making sense. Predictability breaks down. That's why the universe takes all its dirty little secrets and hides them in the centre of a black hole.

Gavin G. Smith

#64. Saturday is for fears and secrets and confessions and remembrances; Sunday is for logistics, the daily mapmaking that keeps their life together inching along.

Hanya Yanagihara

#65. I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street.

Max Muller

#66. I know I tackled something big, new, and scary and I survived.

Jen Calonita

#67. What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

Andre Malraux

#68. 'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.

Barton Gellman

#69. Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most.

Alyson Noel

#70. Secrets are revealed as you are ready to understand them.

Gregory Maguire

#71. In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.

Arthur C. Clarke

#72. But the Tsar of Death and the Tsar of Life greatly feared one another, for Death is surrounded by souls, and is never lonely, and the Tsar of Life had hidden his death away in a place deeper than secrets, and more secret than depth.

Catherynne M Valente

#73. Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies as well as joys. And that's what great drama, whether it's the movies or the theater, that's what it shows.

Annette Bening

#74. take unorthodox ideas seriously today, and the mainstream sees that as a sign of progress. We can be glad that there are fewer crazy cults now, yet that gain has come at great cost: we have given up our sense of wonder at secrets left to be discovered.

Peter Thiel

#75. We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled.

Kenny Loggins

#76. The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.

Samuel R. Delany

#77. Secrets can take many forms. They can be shocking or silly or soulful. They can connect us with our deepest humanity, or with people we'll never meet.

Frank Warren

#78. I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.

Veronica Roth

#79. Reality depends a great deal upon one believing what he sees - or seeing what he believes. Either way.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#80. You have me under your spell.

With all the secrets you tell.

I can't make it stop.

Please don't let it stop.

You have me under your spell.

If you knew me as well,

You would make it stop.

I can't let it stop.

Kasie West

#81. The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours.

Robin Hobb

#82. I was one of the haves, and one of the secrets of being a have is not wasting your time on empathy.

Peter S. Beagle