Top 76 Quotes About Not Keeping Secrets
#1. In most cases, cables are marked secret not because the U.S. requires it but because those speaking to us - the foreign leaders across the table - do. They are not keeping secrets from us, but from two other groups: their enemies and their subjects.
Elliott Abrams
#2. The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.46 Psychologist James Pennebaker and his colleagues studied what
David Eagleman
#3. I am the worst at keeping secrets. I am the kind of person that the second I buy someone a Christmas present, I tell them what I bought them. I don't wait until Christmas. I'm not good at it.
Jessica Chastain
#4. Royce hated keeping secrets from Hadrian, and it weighed heavily on his conscience, which was amazing, because he had never known he had one. Royce defined right and wrong by the moment. Right was what was best for him - wrong was everything else.
Michael J. Sullivan
#5. Keeping secrets made you powerful. Being powerful earned you respect.
Respect was hard currency.
Terry Pratchett
#6. 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
#7. There is a lurking fear that some things are not meant to be known.
Carl Sagan
#8. I heard Tammy say you could be charming. I haven't seen any proof yet."
Oh, his cat like that. "I thought I was very charming when I petted you into orgasm." He shot her a look filled with sexual heat. "I plan to do more of that - right after I teach you about keeping secrets.
Nalini Singh
#9. 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
#10. Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
Michel Foucault
#11. 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
#12. There is too much at stake to chance rocking the boat by holding on to highly inflated expectations. Keeping our relationships intact and pretending they're successful, even if they aren't, is the price we must pay to harbor our deepest secrets.
Sarah Jo Smith
#13. There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping. Only the ones you hide from yourself, which are the most damaging and hurtful of all. Truth is truth, and lie is lie. Tell yourself one's the other and all the world turns kilter.
David Hewson
#14. Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved.
Sharon Salzberg
#15. I've always been intrigued by the power of secrets. When is it justifiable to keep them from the ones we love? And does keeping them irrevocably change who we are?
Emily Giffin
#16. Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
Gerald Priestland
#17. And that's when I felt the first wave of sorrow that came from keeping a new secret.
Lauren Wolk
#18. 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
#19. I am good at keeping secrets. I am wrapped in them now, the way I am wrapped in lies, like my sweater, clinging tightly to my skin, even on the hottest of days.
Jillian Cantor
#20. Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?
Emily Eden
#21. Trade your secrets and become who you are.
Frank Warren
#22. Are you good at keeping secrets, Merry?" "I'm better than some." I pause, then add, "More often than not, they keep me," only because it sounds simultaneously mysterious and pithy.
Paul Tremblay
#23. What's the best part of being a mathematician? I'm not a religious man, but it's almost like being in touch with God when you're thinking about mathematics. God is keeping secrets from us, and it's fun to try to learn some of the secrets.
Paul Halmos
#24. This secret-keeping business was not for me.
Liz Czukas
#25. I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!
Miley Cyrus
#26. I'm not really good at keeping my own secrets. I can keep other people's secrets pretty well. Unless they're really good and people deserve to hear them. And I'll disseminate the information accordingly.
John Mayer
#27. I'm not so great at keeping secrets; maybe that's why no one ever tells me things.
Emily Osment
#28. I'm good at keeping secrets, but if it's not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I'll tell someone else.
Steven Yeun
#29. You make people interested in you by keeping secrets, not by passing them out like candy at Halloween.
Bryn Greenwood
#30. It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.
Caitlin Moran
#31. Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music.
Tanya Huff
#32. 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
#33. Alchemists turned into chemists
when they stopped keeping secrets.
Eric S. Raymond
#34. 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
#35. The costs of keeping secrets include our growing isolation due to fear of detection and the ways we shut down inside to avoid feeling the effects of our behavior. We can never afford to be truly seen and known - even by ourselves.
Sharon Salzberg
#36. I gave you all my secrets, and you lost them all. You lost a lot of things.
But the treasure of it was in the giving, not the keeping.
Julio Alexi Genao
#37. For the keeping of secrets from adults is oft the only power a child may hope to possess.
Jacqueline Carey
#38. I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.
Joyce Rachelle
#39. Women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.
Stephen King
#40. There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not as a secret, but as a prayer.
Terry Tempest Williams
#41. The corner doesn't mind listening to the stupid things I say;
Sometimes it's the only one keeping me from running away.
And the corner never tells me things I'd rather never know;
We became the best of friends long, long, long ago.
Margo T. Rose
#43. I guess I was used to keeping my secrets to myself.
Sarah Tregay
#44. I guess that's the way secrets are. They're only heavy when you're holding them. As soon as you let go, the significance of keeping those secrets hidden blows away and everything falls into place.
Cassia Leo
#45. There is a difference between your parents' not reporting to you everything they do and keeping secrets from you.
Carolyn Hax
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. I was good at keeping secrets from my parents (it's one of the things we learn while growing up, after all).
Jojo Moyes
#49. 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
#50. I am literally the worst person at keeping secrets. I'd be the worst spy of all time.
Keri Russell
#51. 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
#52. When you know someone is keeping secrets from you it makes you feel like an idiot, and no one likes feeling like an idiot. Mum
Fredrik Backman
#53. 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
#54. We knew each other's histories and secrets, hopes and fears and dreams. When you need to get good and drunk, that's the kind of person you want keeping pace with you. "Okay,
Jacqueline Carey
#55. I love you. I love you and it sucks because now I'm going to lose my job and all our kids are to have red hair and I want at least one of them to be blonde, but they'll probably all have red hair and you're keeping secrets from me and I love you.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#56. I'm good at keeping secrets. My friends always tell me their secrets because I keep them well.
Erin Richards
#57. the safest place to keep your secrets is to keep them in your mind with a locked tongue
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#58. The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets.
Sharon Salzberg
#60. If you want to keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
Benjamin Franklin
#62. Keeping secrets from your father will only lead to trouble.
S.R. Ford
#63. As far as keeping secrets is concerned, I have a black hole in my heart ... whatever goes inside stays there and never comes out.
Raj
#64. Emma Strickland was not who she seemed. He intended to find out more, unlock whatever secrets she was keeping inside her sexy halter and shiny hot pants. Without removing her sexy halter and shiny hot pants, because that would be wrong. With a capital W.
Kate Meader
#65. Tell me, she whispered.
And he, the archangel used to keeping a thousand secrets, told her.
Nalini Singh
#66. Odara narrowed her gaze at Reaghan. You think I enjoy keeping secrets? It kills the soul slowly and surely every day those secrets are kept.
Donna Grant
#67. There are some secrets that we think we're keeping, but those secrets are actually keeping us.
Frank Warren
#68. 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
#69. How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
Michel De Montaigne
#70. I am tired of everyone keeping their secrets so well that they get other people killed. We are all involved in your game, and it seems we are not as easily repaired as teacups.
Erin Morgenstern
#71. His shirt is rumpled. His fingers, long and slender, are stained yellow at the tips from smoking. His mind is always on something else. My mind is busy, too, reading every cue and signal, keeping track of all the things that cannot be discussed, that must not be remembered, that have to be erased.
Kristen Iversen
#72. Keeping secrets is exhausting. When your whole life turns into a secret,
Robin York
#73. The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
Margaret Atwood
#74. 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
#75. The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.
Alafair Burke
#76. His hands clenched. Sugar, I'm this close to tearing off your clothes and teaching you exactly how badly I take you keeping secrets from me. Your choice. Talk or get naked.
Nalini Singh
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