Top 100 Quotes About A Secret
#1. The biggest secret about success is that there isn't any big secret about it, or if there is, then it's a secret from me, too. The idea of searching for some secret for trading success misses the point.
Ed Seykota
#2. A mind without a secret is with a question mark! A mind with so many secrets shall attract an exclamation one day!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#3. I think what can be most shameful or embarrassing is when our bodies broadcast a secret we'd prefer no one to know. This is why I hate rashes, in particular face rashes.
Heidi Julavits
#4. No words can express what was happening in the pure soul of the girl: it was a secret for her; let it remain a secret for all and everyone. No one can know, no one has seen or will ever see how the seed summoned to life and fruition swells and ripens in the bosom of the earth.
Turgenev Ivan
#5. 1 Corinthians 2:7 (CEB)
We talk about God's Wisdom, which has been hidden as a secret. God determined this wisdom in advance, before time began for our glory.
Anonymous
#6. As the audience, I always love to get to a point where, surprisingly, I find myself in a secret friendship allegiance with the characters that are unexpected.
Franka Potente
#7. Of course you will say that I ought to be practical and ought to try and paint the way they want me to paint. Well, I will tell you a secret. I have tried and I have tried very hard, but I can't do it. I just can't do it! And that is why I am just a little crazy.
Rembrandt
#9. Everybody has a secret but some people have secret that's deeper and darker than the Grand Canyon.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#10. But in the song there was a secret little inner song, hardly perceptible, but always there, sweet and secret and clinging, almost hiding in the counter-melody, and this was the Song of the Pearl That Might Be ...
John Steinbeck
#11. What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.
Chilon Of Sparta
#13. The crimes of others are a secret language among us. Through them we show ourselves what we might be capable of, after all.
Margaret Atwood
#14. There is no better place to keep a secret than in an unfinished novel.
Italo Calvino
#15. I believe there's a secret chemical that's turned loose when you have kids that says you've got to survive, you've got to be strong. That keeps you on your toes, besides all kinds of other things, when you have three little ones running around.
Clyde Edgerton
#16. Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.
Jose Saramago
#17. If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.
Rachel Maddow
#18. The Air Force had put out a secret order for its pilots to capture UFOs. For the last six months we have been working with a congressional committee for investigating official secrecy concerning proof that UFOs are real machines under intelligent.
Donald Keyhoe
#19. Since ancient times, spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. Despite this, it seems to have remained a secret.
Eckhart Tolle
#20. I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.
Libba Bray
#22. A conventional truth can be important - it's essential to learn elementary mathematics, for example - but it won't give you an edge. It's not a secret.
Peter Thiel
#23. We all need a place where we feel safe. A secret place that we like to think is ours.
Ingrid Nickelsen
#24. CHAPTER XLV NOAH CLAYPOLE IS EMPLOYED BY FAGIN ON A SECRET MISSION
Charles Dickens
#25. 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
#26. Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is on the verge of riot; and so soon as it appears, he begins to quiver, and to feel himself borne away by the whirlwind.
Victor Hugo
#27. I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.
John Sexton
#28. This was the sickness of the age, the revolutionary madness of the epoch. In thought everyone was different from his words and outward show. No one had a clear conscience. Each with good reason could feel himself guilty, a secret criminal, an unexposed deceiver.
Boris Pasternak
#29. I believe there are two ways of concealing a secret: 1. Leave no trace of it. 2. Replace it with a lie.
So which option did you choose, Mr.President?
Sambhav Ratnakar
#30. Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about anything, it is not worth knowing.
Robertson Davies
#31. If by 'foe' you mean a brutal killer, then I suppose I'd fall into the 'friend' category," I replied cynically. "Although in your case, we may have to find a secret option number three.
M.A. George
#32. TREE HOUSE A tree house, a free house, A secret you and me house, A high up in the leafy branches Cozy as can be house. A street house, a neat house, Be sure to wipe your feet house Is not my kind of house at all- Let's go live in a tree house.
Shel Silverstein
#33. I want to tell you a secret that will see you through all the trials that life can offer."
"Have courage and be kind!
Cinderella
#34. When you're (traveling) with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart, because there's no other way to preserve it.
Shauna Niequist
#35. In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
Christopher Morley
#36. It is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.
Elizabeth Montagu
#37. No one can keep a secret better than a child.
Victor Hugo
#38. I agreed to keep the cards a secret and asked my grandmother if she believed in magic. She said she did not but that, surprisingly, magic worked even if you did not believe in it.
Michael Chabon
#39. A secret is only yours so long as you don't share it. Tell it to one person, and it's a secret no more.
Robin Hobb
#40. I belong to a secret order. We all have OCD, so you'd better believe we have order.
Jarod Kintz
#41. He felt again irresistibly drawn to her. He felt there was a secret bond, a secret thread between him and her, something very exclusive, which shut out everybody else and made him and her possess each other in secret.
D.H. Lawrence
#42. It is interesting that we call something good a "dream," but being called a "dreamer" is somewhat of a putdown.
Without dreamers, no dream would ever be given reality, and we would live in a very small and shallow world.
If you are a secret dreamer, it's your time to announce yourself.
Vera Nazarian
#43. His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
Veronica Roth
#44. It's hard to keep a secret when it's written all over your body ...
Julia Hoban
#45. To carry a secret is to play with fire. Try to pass it on and you'd risk hurting someone else. Hold on to it and eventually you'd get burned.
Emily Thorne
#46. After all, what is a kiss? A vow made at closer range, a more precise promise, a confession that contains its own proof, a seal placed on a pact that has already been signed; it's a secret told to the mouth rather than to the ear.
Edmond Rostand
#47. Even then, she still held a secret passion for Mozart. When he died in 1791, her grief made her provoke the people into starting the French Revolution. Stepping up to the guillotine herself, she ordered the executioner to behead her, thereby committing assisted suicide.
Yasutaka Tsutsui
#48. I believe people who shower twice a day are hiding a secret, or a sandwich.
Chelsea Handler
#49. She'd trade places with Tessa. She'd always had a secret crush on Julian.
Pamela Clare
#50. Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.
Mark Haddon
#51. A secret is powerful when it is empty.
Umberto Eco
#52. While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
Dana Carvey
#53. I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'
Bas Rutten
#54. You always seem so in control."
"And you don't?"
He laughed, but somehow not humorously. There was a darkness in his eyes that had nothing to do with color.
"I'll let you in on a secret. I'm not. Sometimes I think that this life is shit. I mean, don't you find it pathetic?
Melina Marchetta
#55. Scent of old books a mystery; a secret port of the dreamers.
China Cancio
#56. Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.
Katherine Paterson
#57. If Disneyland was indeed the Happiest Place on Earth, you'd either keep it a secret or the price of admission would be free and not equivalent to the yearly per capita income of a small sub-Saharan African nation like Detroit.
Paul Beatty
#58. Why so surprised, White Wolf? he murmurs, smiling a little. There is something in the way he says my Elite name, a secret sweetness.
Why so surprised that you are worthy?
Marie Lu
#59. Some people at the party, she adds, are freaks, then mentions a drug I've never heard of, and tells me a story that involves ski masks, zombies, a van, chains, a secret community, and asks me about a Hispanic girl who disappeared in some desert.
Bret Easton Ellis
#60. The secret to a happiness is a small ego. And a big wallet. Good wine helps, too. But that's not really a secret, is it?
Robert Louis Stevenson
#62. Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind.
Solon
#63. Reading felt like a daytime dream in a secret land. Nobody but I knew how to get there, and nobody but I owned that place
Lawrence Hill
#65. You see, a secret is not something untold. It's something which can't be told.
Terence McKenna
#66. There's darkness in me that I can't always control. If you like a girl with a secret side, then you're gonna love me.
Kady Cross
#67. For each, God has a different response. With every man He has a secret - the secret of a new name. In every man there is a loneliness, an inner chamber of peculiar life into which God only can enter. I say not it is the innermost chamber.
George MacDonald
#68. Americans have a healthy stupidity. That lack of sophistication is a secret superpower,
Paul Budnitz
#70. Each person, the most worthy as well as the most despicable, carries around a secret which would make her hateful to everyone else if it became known.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#71. A secret's not like coin. It doesn't keep its value in the spending.
Leigh Bardugo
#72. Openness is the first step toward recovery ... addiction remains a secret because of the overwhelming shame associated with it.
David Sheff
#73. I have this thing about friends and secrets. Sometimes when I meet a person I like, I tell them a secret they don't know me well enough to be told. It lets me judge their potential as a friend.
Mohsin Hamid
#74. ...because there's a secret order. The books, you can't place them random. The other day I put Cervantes next to Tolstoj.
And I thought, if close to Anna Karenina we have Don Quixote, sure the latter will do his best to save her.
Ettore Scola
#75. It is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.
Patrick Rothfuss
#76. Once you told a secret it was loose in the world, it was a wild thing
Scott O'Connor
#77. If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
George Orwell
#78. I have had breast implants, but it's so funny 'cause it's not a secret; I could care less.
Kourtney Kardashian
#79. Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret technique, codified or not, and we discover that no one can become a virtuoso on the spur of the moment in this orchestra of 'noisemakers.
Wanda Landowska
#80. That's one hell of a secret life you live, Miss Abigail.
Robin Schone
#81. [Joe] Biden countered. He was speaking at a summit for working families, and he said he had no stocks, no bonds, or a savings account. He then asked a Secret Service agent to hand him his hobo bindle, and he jumped a freight train back to D.C.
Peter Sagal
#82. You came to me asking how my faith survived the Day of Judgement. I will tell you a secret. When the stars fell, when the seas boiled and the earth burned, my faith didn't die. That is when I began to believe.
God was real, and he hated us.
Aaron Dembski-Bowden
#83. Each time I have a lapse of memory, I think of the anguish which must afflict those who know they no longer remember anything. But something tells me that after a certain time a secret joy possesses them, a joy they would not agree to trade for any of their memories, even the most stirring. ...
Emil Cioran
#84. Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.
Honore De Balzac
#85. Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
William Hazlitt
#88. It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government.
James Jesus Angleton
#89. I am not sure what it is that finally allows people to just turn to each other and touch. There is some hidden trigger. There is a secret language people learn, so they can signal to stop talking and just move. I don't know it.
M T Anderson
#90. There is a secret society of seven men that controls the finances of the world. This is known to everyone but the details are not known. There are some who believe that it would be better if one of those seven men were a financier.
R.A. Lafferty
#91. The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#92. To become a Secret Service agent, applicants must pass a polygraph exam. But after being hired, agents are never required to undergo regular lie detector testing again.
Ronald Kessler
#93. Even the silences seemed infused with a secret knowledge. We held hands as we walked around the moon and it felt right and it felt good. I had never felt anything like that before.
Andersen Prunty
#94. If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.
Maurice Sendak
#95. It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the old adage"There is no alternative to victory" retains a high degree of plausibility.
Hannah Arendt
#96. I will also tell you a secret. We have to will one another: this is the beginning of conscious love.
Maurice Nicoll
#97. Yes?" "My heart keeps discovering new ways to love you," he whispered, like it was a secret. A magnificent, beautiful, perfect secret.
Penny Reid
#98. I've been known to watch porn from time to time."
"Just from time to time?" I ask.
She shrugs naughtily, a little I've-got-a-secret look in her eyes.
"It's okay. Tell the doctor. Masturbation is normal. Don't be ashamed.
Lauren Blakely
#99. Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret is no fun. And although you don't want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.
E.L. Konigsburg
#100. I am curious about people. I want to know their secrets ... because I am the last person to whom I would tell a secret; people tell me their secrets.
Ruth Rendell