Top 100 Quotes About Keep Secrets
#1. Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people.
Howard Zinn
#2. The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
Walter Ulbricht
#3. When a man doesn't bother to keep secrets from you, you know that you're in trouble.
Anonymous
#4. Government should be of the people, by the people, for the people. What part of that do politicians and government bureaucrats not understand? Government has no right to keep secrets from the people. The people are paying for it. It's THEIR government. They have a right to know everything going on.
Wayne Allyn Root
#5. 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
#6. We keep secrets from people that we love because we're afraid of our own truth. I think sometimes we're afraid to hurt people, because you never know. I think we're afraid of what is, and what can't be.
Lauren London
#7. I don't keep secrets from my parents, really; it's pretty open.
Sam Rockwell
#8. I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'
Olivia Cooke
#10. All you have to do is be a good listener. Nobody really wants to keep secrets, not even the dead. People leave clues everywhere, and if you pay attention, you can piece them together.
Deborah Harkness
#11. No, Xander. Not this time. You don't lie to someone you're in love with. You don't keep secrets from each other. But you do. You don't trust me. You went inside my head and took something from me and you think it's okay. It's not! I'm not your human pet who you can do whatever you want with.
Ashlan Thomas
#12. When Naasir was yet a child, Dmitri had told him he must learn as many languages as possible, so no one could keep secrets from him. This wasn't the first time that advice had held Naasir in good stead.
Nalini Singh
#13. Of course I can keep secrets. It's the people I tell them to who can't keep them.
Anthony Haden-Guest
#14. We share shit. We're soulmates. We don't keep secrets.
Elle Casey
#16. There's the imperative to keep secrets, and the imperative to have them known. How do you know that you're a person, distinct from other people? By keeping certain things to yourself.
Jonathan Franzen
#17. We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know.
Susan Griffin
#18. I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.
Beau Bridges
#19. I'm a really anxious person, so I tend not to keep secrets. I tend not to even want to hear them. It's too nerve-wracking for me to try and keep things from people.
James Scott
#20. Our street corners keep secrets, and our road signs only suggest,
never deciding for us, never knowing if the destination to which they lead is where we truely belong.
Alex Gaskarth
#22. It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.
Mary Stewart
#23. I don't keep secrets because I'm no good at them!
Miley Cyrus
#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
#26. People, in my long experience, want to talk. They may believe they wish to keep secrets, and they may believe that they are capable of doing so. But the truth is that secrets exist to be revealed; and it is usually very easy to find the combination of words that will cause them to emerge.
J. Robert Lennon
#27. It takes a very strong head to keep secrets for years and not go slightly mad. It isn't wise to be advised by anyone slightly mad.
C.P. Snow
#28. The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming
to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted just as you are. Never, ever let anyone convince you otherwise.
Alex Sanchez
#29. Sisters keep secrets.
Because sisters' secrets are swords.
Eleanor Brown
#30. If I do find out the Secret,I won't be able to tell it to you-you know that right?And that doesn't mean I don't trust you.It's just because I can't.Sometimes even best friends have to keep secrets from each other.
-Cass
Pseudonymous Bosch
#31. I have found that one can either keep secrets or keep servants.
Kiersten White
#32. The problem with the dead is that they don't keep secrets. Eventually they tell on themselves.
Elizabeth Crook
#33. The U.K. government has a responsibility to keep secrets in some circumstances. It also has a responsibility not to abuse that power for other purposes.
Sarah Harrison
#34. Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again?
Dan Brown
#35. It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.
Andrew Solomon
#37. Do not keep secrets - except in your fiction, where their corrosive influence and dark gravity make for high drama.
Donald Maass
#38. 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
Sara Shepard
#39. Sometimes I think we keep secrets for the wrong reasons. If we could instead find that right person to talk to we might find that talking about an embarrassing story or admitting our frailty might lead to a more authentic relationship with others or ourselves.
Frank Warren
#41. If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself.
David Eddings
#42. It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.
Winston Churchill
#43. the safest place to keep your secrets is to keep them in your mind with a locked tongue
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#44. 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
#45. A magical blending of mystery, romance, and deep and dangerous secrets. Kelly Parra's Invisible Touch is an action-packed coming-of-age novel, sure to keep readers turning pages and begging for a sequel.
Laurie Faria Stolarz
#46. I'm good at keeping secrets. My friends always tell me their secrets because I keep them well.
Erin Richards
#47. The only thing scarier than telling my secrets would be keeping them. When the "sensitive information" you carry is your own history, going mute to protect the system doesn't keep you from being destroyed; it just means that you destroy yourself.
Martha N. Beck
#48. Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret ...
Louisa May Alcott
#49. "I believe I'll keep that one to myself, luv. If I told you all my secrets, there would be no more mystery in our relationship."
"I'm not a big fan of mysteries."
That roguish smile I once hated curls his lips and curls my insides. "Rubbish. You adore them."
A.G. Howard
#50. There are things you cannot share with friends. Even best ones. Some secrets that are kinder just to keep.
Rebecca Serle
#51. Secretly incredible people keep what they do one of God's best-kept secrets because the only one who needs to know, the God of the universe, already knows.
Bob Goff
#52. Secrets affect you more than you'd think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone'll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn't it the secret who's actually using you?
David Mitchell
#53. I feel that telling my secrets makes me less vulnerable. What would make me vulnerable are the secrets I keep.
Isabel Allende
#55. There are two kinds of secrets: those we keep from others and those we hide from ourselves.
Frank Warren
#56. Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.
Winston Churchill
#57. You don't sell a film by saying you won't show it. There may be secrets too horrible for a man to know and keep his own sanity but that won't go down in Hollywood, Mister.
William S. Burroughs
#58. You've always kept my secrets. I'll always keep yours
Kiera Cass
#59. Keep an open mind. Only an open mind is big enough to contain the secrets of the universe.
Vera Stanley Alder
#60. Don't have any more secrets than you can keep yourself.
Josh Billings
#61. There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.
Katharine Graham
#62. In your palms, I've placed my life, my secrets. I give you freedom to leave me at any time. I'm not easy to love. No one ever has. All I ask is that you always keep your silence, if not for me, then for the families of the others you'd destroy. (Nykyrian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#63. I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.
Joe Hill
#64. Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.
Jackson Browne
#65. But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling secrets, there can be great danger in keeping secrets.
Daniel Ellsberg
#67. Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them.
Liane Moriarty
#68. We can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves.
John D. Barrow
#69. Went with one (Assassin) for a while ... lovely lass, but she couldn't keep her mouth shut, even in bed. Sometimes I wonder if any profession really guards its secrets as closely as they claim.
Robert Asprin
#70. People like to keep their little secrets to themselves. It's like growing mushrooms in the cellar and running down to take a look at them now and then.
Marjorie Kellogg
#71. A haunting, harrowing punch to the heart, Among the Missing is flat-out brilliant. About the secrets we keep, the lives we are desperate to live, and the chances we miss, it's a psychological dazzler. Truly, one of my favorite books of this year-or any year.
Caroline Leavitt
#72. What most people want to keep under wraps (from reporters) is trivial: petty jealousies, professional feuds, etc. By contrast, most of the things they have thought about most seriously all their lives they are perfectly winning to uncover.
Thomas Boswell
#73. The reason I trust so much is that I don't feel like I have anything to hide. If somebody betrays that trust, it could never be so bad, because I don't keep any secrets.
Kate Hudson
#74. 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
#76. With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put there.
Trisha Leaver
#77. You are asking us to lie, Colonel?"
"I am asking you to omit. Surely, amidst the ... the infinite gradations of human venality, that particular sin ranks low." The old man kneaded the folds of his throat. "What happened out there belongs out there. The jungle has it; let the jungle keep it ...
Louis Bayard
#78. The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper: paper can be lost or stolen or simply inherited by the wrong people; if you really want to keep something secret, don't write it down.
Thomas Powers
#79. I promise to tell you everything you want, but first I want something from you in return.
What do you want? Olivia asked.
I want a kiss, William said. You and I, we're making a deal of sorts ... a bargain that we will keep each other's secrets ...
Evette Davis
#80. Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what make it perfect.
Trisha Leaver
#81. Secrets are great for acting. Secrets are the best thing in the world for acting, because they keep you looking like you have something in the back of your mind.
Alison Pill
#82. It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.
Catherynne M Valente
#83. I'm never getting a tattoo. My secrets are etched safely on the inside and I intend to keep them there.
Lisa O'Donnell
#84. Ah well that I can't tell you." Diana ducked her head so that the brim of her bonnet covered her face. "Some things must remain a mystery and for now I think I'll keep my opinion of you and your compliments to myself.
Anna Godbersen
#85. Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.
Lemony Snicket
#86. The only secrets that are good are the ones with an ending. Keep surprises instead of secrets in your home.
Carolyn Byers Ruch
#87. HAN: 'Tis said that sometimes those who knew us in
Our youth did know us best. From them we have
No secrets and cannot pretend to be
Another thing that what we are. They keep
Our living honest, for they know who we
Have been.
Ian Doescher
#88. There are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.
Roald Dahl
#89. There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
J.H. Wyman
#90. It is amazin, she thinks, how simple appearances can be created - a rush, a smile, a new coat of paint, a slow, calm voice, a hug, a new dress - a resolve to keep out questions and cling to secrets
Mary E. Pearson
#91. My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.
Nancy Lublin
#92. After that, Marya Morevna understood that she belonged to her secret and it belonged to her. They had struck a bloody bargain between them. Keep me and obey me, the secret said to her, for I am your husband and I can destroy you.
Catherynne M Valente
#93. We're going to be okay.
Here's the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your cover and keep your secrets, and right then I needed to believe that it was true even when all the facts said otherwise.
Ally Carter
#94. His eyes follow me everywhere, and we keep sharing smiles that feel like secrets.(Kiersten White)
Stephanie Perkins
#95. One could keep open secrets only so well before they became a threat to others.
Ted Dekker
#96. I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister.
Trisha Leaver
#97. One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.
Ruth Reichl
#98. Will you promise to keep this to yourself, to not tell anyone of what we are? By his words you'd think he was giving me a choice. Like I could say,no deal, honey bunch, I'm off to shout your secret from the rooftops, and he'd be like, oh no please don't do that. In
reality, he'd have to kill me.
L. H. Cosway
#99. Heart can keep a secret, but face is not a good secret keeper! So what heart knows, face will expose it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#100. [...] the only thing you can trust in life is the fish in the sea because they know all the secrets of the world and they keep quiet.
Ishbelle Bee
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