Top 56 Keeping A Secret Quotes
#1. Sometimes keeping a secret seems like the right thing to do because telling the truth might hurt someone and makes it seem like you don't love them. But really, telling the truth is the right thing to do. It's the most loving thing to do.
-Kaylee
Ginny L. Yttrup
#2. The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
Margaret Atwood
#3. Keeping a secret isn't the same as being a liar.
Suzanne Young
#4. Sometimes when we think we are keeping a secret, the secret is actually keeping us.
Frank Warren
#5. I'm very good at keeping a secret.
Sean Bean
#6. The problem with keeping a secret is that you don't give someone a chance to come through for you, to prove to you that they love you unconditionally.
Susan May Warren
#7. Making a series can sometimes feel like you're keeping a secret for months until it comes out; so when it finalizes in front of you, if you like the final product, it can be very exciting.
Tom Weston-Jones
#8. I have always considered that there is a great deal of difference between keeping one's own secret, and keeping a secret for another soul;
Eleanor Catton
#9. Keeping a secret isn't always lying. Sometimes it's the only way to protect the person you love.
Jodi Picoult
#10. You can't bring a duffel bag that says 'I Heart Cheese' on it, that's just offensive.
Lauren Barnholdt
#11. The war waged against terror since September 11 puts a strain on democracy itself, because it is mostly waged in secret, using means that are at the edge of both law and morality. Yet democracies have shown themselves capable of keeping the secret exercise of power under control.
Michael Ignatieff
#12. So this is what you look like when you're keeping a giant secret from me - exactly the same as usual.
Rainbow Rowell
#13. Really, having a gun registry and having to rely on the government to keep it secret, the government isn't so great at keeping confidences.
Rand Paul
#14. A secret that has been buried too long, eating a hole in me, worms its way to the surface, like a swimmer who can't hold his breath any longer.
Michael R. French
#15. 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
#16. The reason I'm keeping her secret for her, pretending that I don't know she's a girl is because I don't want to lose her. And that's exactly why I can't let her know that I know.
Hisaya Nakajo
#17. Imagine knowing that you're good at something, so good that the world would be in awe of you if they could see your work, and then keeping yourself a secret from the world.
Paul Auster
#18. A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Kenneth Tynan
#19. I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.
Joyce Rachelle
#21. It was a rule of secret-keeping, in which she was well-versed: Ask not, lest ye be asked.
Laini Taylor
#22. We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.
Peter Greenaway
#23. I cut a lot of cringy sex stuff and a lot of stuff I thought was too personal. I think secret gardens are very special. I think we all have to have them. I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.
Damian Barr
#24. she said. He had called me right before he was going to be operated on for cancer, and he was still keeping it a secret, she explained. I decided
Walter Isaacson
#25. That's the secret to a movie career - just keeping an open mind.
Clint Eastwood
#26. It seemed to Ellie that you could tell a lot about someone by the way they carried a secret - by how safe they kept it, how soon they told, the way they acted when they were trying to keep it from spilling out.
Jennifer E. Smith
#27. the U.S. government has a long history of overclassifying information that shouldn't be classified at all - and keeping information classified until long after any justification for classifying it has disappeared.
Rosa Brooks
#28. Augustine's lips tense into a line. "Oh, for the gods' sakes, Little Jac," he snaps. "We know Lucent wasn't just your riding companion." At her stunned expression, Augustine laughs. "You are good at many things, but you are horrible at keeping your love interests a secret.
Marie Lu
#29. Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business; the trailer seldom goes far.
Charles M. Schwab
#30. I am like a tree that looks dead to the world, but when you climb to the very top, you find bright green limbs sucking sap one hundred feet from the ground. And you discover the tree is very much alive, and is keeping its secret of life from the world.
Ned Hayes
#31. I'm an expert at finding out secrets, but keeping them- especially a secret of this magnitude - is something else.
Hannah Harrington
#32. Tell me a secret Dylan, something you've never told anyone else," I said keeping my eyes on the stars.He don't say anything, his breathing light, body relaxed.Sighing, his breath tickling my shin when he whispered in my ear,"I love you.
Shey Stahl
#33. The security of a cryptosystem must not depend on keeping secret the crypto-algorithm. The security depends only on keeping secret the key.
Simon Singh
#34. I wondered what the FML post would look like.
"Today, when my father tried to shoot me, I found out he was an assassin monger who's been keeping my mom locked away in a secret facility for freaky killers. FML."
Seriously. F.M.L.
Jus Accardo
#35. The universe has its secrets. Extra dimensions of space might be one of them. If so, the universe has been hiding those dimensions, protecting them, keeping them coyly under wraps. From a casual glance, you would never suspect a thing.
Lisa Randall
#36. There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not as a secret, but as a prayer.
Terry Tempest Williams
#37. Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.
Kate Morton
#38. The disappointment in his voice was like a knife to the gut, but I was keeping this secret to protect him just as much as myself. I headed for the window, climbing out before him. What should
Denise Grover Swank
#39. Eleanor should never have told them about Park's house, but she'd been dying to tell somebody. (This was how people ended up in jail after committing the perfect crime.)
Rainbow Rowell
#40. When I started wearing a yarmulke, I wanted to stand out or take the form of whatever was inspiring me. But now I think there's something to not working it, to keeping it on the inside, and it just being kind of like a secret.
Matisyahu
#41. The more time you wait before telling somebody the truth about a secret you've been keeping, the longer your path out of the woods gets.
Andrew Smith
#42. Keeping secrets is exhausting. When your whole life turns into a secret,
Robin York
#43. There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day - bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#44. There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power.
Robin Hobb
#45. It wouldn't be bad to have the Secret Service keeping an eye on my teenage daughter. I personally am not troubled by the fact that there would be a couple of big guys with earpieces beside her, just in case.
Marco Rubio
#46. Your biggest challenge as an entrepreneur is not concealing your idea from others or keeping your idea a secret, it is actually convincing people that you're not crazy and that you can pull this off.
Sean Parker
#47. Thank you for keeping it a secret. There aren't many of those in this tribe.
Kristen Ashley
#48. 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.
Liz Kessler
#49. If you want to keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
Benjamin Franklin
#50. Be careful who you share your personal life with. If someone you confide shares secrets with you, that they were asked not to divulge, chances are your secret's already out there too. Everything is not for everybody.
Carlos Wallace
#51. And that's when I felt the first wave of sorrow that came from keeping a new secret.
Lauren Wolk
#52. When you are entrusted with a secret, you become irrevocably accountable for what you do or don't do after your mind is colored by the knowledge of it.
Joyce Rachelle
#53. I have never told anyone about this part of my life. Keeping it secret gave me a sense of control over the uncontrollable; unveiling the lies leaves me painfully exposed.
Maggi Myers
#54. For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that could be given a name.
George Orwell
#55. The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping you ass in the chair.
(ASS + CHAIR = PAGES!)
Oliver Stone
#56. If you have a problem I find keeping it a secret makes it so much stronger.
Josh Ramsay
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