Open Secrets Quotes

#1. Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.

Richard Henry Stoddard

#2. One could keep open secrets only so well before they became a threat to others.

Ted Dekker

#3. The real core of this book is about the open secrets that can fester in a community until an outsider raises questions.

J. Alexander Greenwood

#4. The important things usually prove to be very simple. They are also open secrets in the sense that no one is hiding the knowledge from us except ourselves.

Robert Moss

#5. These are open secrets, so to speak. Of the kind we dare not articulate, for fear of wounding those close to us.

Joyce Carol Oates

#6. It was a fitting animal for a priest. Cats guard the secrets of the otherworld and are liaisons with mystic realms. Protectors of esoteric knowledge, cats can open the gates through which a priest can see the future and gain insight.

M.J. Rose

#7. There is a crack opening up in the middle of the kitchen table. The typewriter and the secrets box are too heavy for it. They're pulling the table down. They're opening up a hole in the floor. The whole room rips apart. There it is, large as life. Our lives are being blown wide open.

Moira Fowley-Doyle

#8. Shaking his head, Jace regarded the heavens as if they were about to open up and reveal the secrets of the universe. "With everything that's going on, you're worried about Weasel Face?

Cassandra Clare

#9. Almighty God unto whom all hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no Secrets are hid: clense the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy holy spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnifie thy holy Name through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Church Of England

#10. It's not the substance of what you make known to me that's beautiful; it's the opening of your heart. It is the 'yes' in your heart to be mine. The fact that you are revealing the secrets and letting me peer into your heart
that is in itself the beautiful part.

Dana Candler

#11. Thinking that the world was like an orange, that I could split it open with my thumbnail and find a whole different world, the grown-up world, the secrets beneath the skin.

Jennifer Weiner

#12. There is something about someone trusting you enough with their secrets that it makes it easier to trust them. It's like they're opening their heart and in return yours should open up to them, too.

Jessica Sorensen

#13. How dare you, unless you can hold up your own life as a model of rectitude, achievement, and halcyon happiness, open your mouth about the stubborn secrets of living?

Celestine Sibley

#14. Wintervale, by being so open, trusting, and artless his entire life, had made his more cynical friends hang on to their secrets. And in doing so, they had preserved themselves from the Bane.

Sherry Thomas

#15. The theory is that if you spill all your secrets, you'll have no desire to lie about anything, ever again. Like the worst about you is already in the open, so why not just be honest?

Veronica Roth

#16. Secrets turn powerless in the open air.

Michael Ondaatje

#17. There are secrets in the Omniverse no one is meant to know... but those with an open mind might know what others will never discover.

Kimberly Loskov

#18. My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good.

Paul Kane

#19. the rain falls, catching the trailing edges of net curtains which flow out of open windows like fishing nets lowered over the backs of boats, nets hung neatly between the outside and the in, keeping floundering secrets firmly hidden...

Jon McGregor

#20. All the answers are but waiting for us while we, poor fools, ask questions and wait for the secrets of God to open themselves up to us: when they, all the while, are waiting for us to open ourselves up to them ...

Muhammad Asad

#21. For a storyteller, an open ending leaves much room for imagination; for the inquisitive reader, however, it is a source of great anxiety.

Joyce Rachelle

#22. Home should never be dark or full of shadows and secrets. It should be bright and full of open doors. It should be full of stories wanting to be told.

Travis Thrasher

#23. She wants your secrets. She wants your soul. You've got to crack yourself open and find that broken, shameful piece of your heart that you'd hide from the world and God Himself if you could manage it. And then serve it up to her on a platter.

Tessa Dare

#24. If you have something hot, you keep your mouth shut, your eyes open, and your secrets buried.

Richard Castle

#25. No secrets, no longing, no desperate hoping
Just reach out and grab from a world cracked open.

David Rakoff

#26. The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
Don't go back to sleep!
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep!
People are going back and forth
across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,
The door is round and open
Don't go back to sleep!

Rumi

#27. What is most important to understand about dysfunctional families is that in keeping the family "secrets," we are harming ourselves and diminishing our ability to be honest and open-hearted with ourselves and others we care about

Katherine Mayfield

#28. If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.

Rumi

#29. We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.
[Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 323, 341 (1966) (dissenting)]

William O. Douglas

#30. There is nothing in the world that does not speak to us. Everything and everybody reveals its own nature, character and secrets continuously. The more open our inner senses, the more we understand the voice of everything.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#31. Love has no pride. Love is open, honest, and given freely without bonds or secrets or inhibitions."

Book ~ Embracing My Submission

Jenna Jacob

#32. The human body is a book of secrets, covered in skin and written in blood. Those who which to learn its mysteries must be unafraid to open it and study its entrails.
-The Book of The Eternal Rose

Fiona Paul

#33. The reason people fear to confide in anyone is that even an internal friend can make personal details external, and it will remain eternal.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#34. You see things nobody else sees. You can't talk about it because no one will understand, You have to keep secrets, and secrets - they break you apart. Cut you open. Make you vulnerable.

Cassandra Clare

#35. I don't keep secrets from my parents, really; it's pretty open.

Sam Rockwell

#36. Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
[The Sick Chamber (The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)]

William Hazlitt

#37. Keep an open mind. Only an open mind is big enough to contain the secrets of the universe.

Vera Stanley Alder

#38. I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#39. Something that I believe is that you're as sick as your secrets. The more open you're able to be, the more you're able to share even the most uncomfortable aspects of yourself, the healthier you'll be.

Mireille Enos

#40. A secret's safest hiding place is in the open.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#41. I open my heart to her and lay it on the table.

Jennifer Haigh

#42. The Earth is alive and contains the knowledge you seek. It is your consciousness that determines what it reveals. How to access this knowledge? And where are the keys to open it and make it yours? The Earth speaks. Love her, honor and respect her and she will reveal her secrets.

Barbara Marciniak

#43. All spiritual strength for ourselves, all noble ties to one another, have their real source in that inner sanctuary where God denies His lonely audience to none. Its secrets are holy; its asylum, inviolate; its consolations, sure; and all are open to the simple heart-word, Thou art my hiding-place.

James Martineau

#44. Maybe we should open a bottle of champagne," Maddy said, glaring at the two women. "A toast to keeping secrets . . . where would a family be without 'em?

Barbara Bretton

#45. I realized in 1988 that my life as a spy specializing in secrets was not only unproductive, it was in sharp opposition to what we actually need: full access to true information, and consequently, the ability to create Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT).

Robert David Steele

#46. If the eye of the heart is open, in each atom there will be one hundred secrets

Farid Al-Din Attar

#47. What love gives you is the courage to face the secrets you've kept from yourself, a reason to open the rest of the doors.

Paul Monette

#48. God, she looked like an angel from this angle as she sat in the sunlight that streamed in from a nearby open window. I was hoping with all my heart that what I was about to tell her, wouldn't make this angel fall.

Angela Richardson

#49. Don't take that tone with me, Gideon. I'm tired of being an open book for you while you hoard all your secrets.

Sylvia Day

#50. Kisses open doors, I've noticed. That one gesture can unlock secrets, ease open feelings. It can't be prevented
these kisses just are. It's how they work. They break into basements you never knew you had.

Susan Fletcher

#51. Secrets can eat you alive. They break down your soul. It's better to have them in the open

Sara Shepard

#52. A hotel is like a prison, he thought. The rooms are cells holding secrets and passions. Then something happens, the smallest thing, and the doors fly open. The explosion goes off. Panic. And fragments of truth.

E. Howard Hunt

#53. I preyed on this sort of thing, discontentment, a clash of passions among the rivals, and the zealots. Open sores opened secrets. That's how I roll."
Jackson Guild, The Trinity Conspiracy, Betrayal at Black Mesa

Jeff Shear

#54. ( ... ) unkept secrets always manage to escape, under a door, through a keyhole or an open window, until everyon knows everything and nobody knows how ... ( ... )

Salman Rushdie

#55. [in response to a jealous comment made by Amber] PJ's mouth snarls open. If you aren't going to play nice, my thorny little bush, I think you should return to the dirty playground that you crawled from.

Laurie Faria Stolarz