Quotes About Secret Affairs

#1. There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. Art is competitive.

Robert Duvall

#3. [The Soviet State Security Service] is more than a secret police organization, more than an intelligence and counter-intelligence organization. It is an instrument for subversion, manipulation and violence, for secret intervention in the affairs of other countries.

Allen W. Dulles

#4. The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.

Ernest Rutherford

#5. Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

Horace

#6. Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Andrew Carnegie

#7. The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle ... present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.

Samuel Gompers

#8. Constantly practice the habit of inwardly gazing upon God. You know that something inside your heart sees God. Even when you are compelled to withdraw your conscious attention in order to engage in earthly affairs, there is within you a secret communion always going on.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#9. The beauty with modest smile, whose secrecy of silent love had just been stolen, beamed at this wonderful offer and she replenished herself with his love as a carefree child cossetted with luxurious warmth after a cold shower.

Ashmita Acharya

#10. The greatest obsession is I believe in myself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.

Honore De Balzac

#12. Some people are conduits for misery.

Harlan Coben

#13. Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing Shivling and said: 'First travel, then struggle, finally calm'.

Greg Child

#14. So, if there are any couples here this evening having a secret extramarital affair, I encourage you to breed.

Alison Larkin

#15. Irwin F. Gellman's Secret Affairs: FDR, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles,

Larry Kramer

#16. All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement,

Strom Thurmond

#17. The truth about the nature and the power of the elite is not some secret which men of affairs know but will not tell. ... No matter how great their actual power, they tend to be less acutely aware of it than of the resistance of others to its use.

C. Wright Mills

#18. Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.

Jill Lepore