Top 100 Quotes About Secret
#1. Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.
Benito Mussolini
#2. The secret to a happy life is to run out of cash and air at the same time.
Bobby Layne
#3. 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
#4. We all have secrets we keep locked away from the rest of the world. Friendship we pretend. Relationships we hide. But worst of all is the love we never let show; the most dangerous secret a person can bury are those we keep for ourselves.
Kevin McCarty
#5. The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world.
Odd Thomas
Dean Koontz
#6. 14) Ladies, if a guy leaves you a voice mail that says 'I had a good time with you' what he REALLY means is 'I had a good time with you.' Ladies, please stop searching for secret meanings in what we say. We're men; we're not that clever.
Nelson Chereta
#7. I meditate every day, which is profoundly restful and restorative. It wipes out a lot of the fatigue. That's my secret weapon.
Mike Love
#8. The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.
Ken Kesey
#9. I'll tell you a terrible secret - Are you listening to me? There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.
J.D. Salinger
#10. Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.
Honore De Balzac
#11. How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?
Alice Sebold
#12. No one can keep a secret better than a child.
Victor Hugo
#13. Gentlemen living after me! Since you are reading this little letter of mine, I have already departed from you and gone on to learn the secret of death, which remains concealed from your eyes behind seven seals. I am free, while you must carry on living in torment and fear.
Boris Akunin
#14. Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#15. Irv had rediscovered, as surprisingly few men do, that the secret to perfect male happiness is a well-equipped clubhouse.
Michael Chabon
#16. You have made no secret of the fact that you hate me."
His eyes soften again. "Hate you?" he asks. "Not as much as you might think. And then there is the ... what was it ... butterflies? That can't be a bad thing, can it?
Amy A. Bartol
#17. We have co-opted seed funds. You know, Y Combinator, that was completely our money. We have secret handshakes with a whole bunch of people. Very dangerous, because word gets out that so-and-so's money is Sequoia's money, that would not be a good thing.
Douglas Leone
#18. I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.
Rod Stewart
#20. I mean, what's the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth, political influence, went to the same elite university, joined the same secret society where you're trained to be a ruler - they both can run because they're financed by the same corporate institutions.
Noam Chomsky
#21. Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.
Richard Branson
#22. Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation ...
Joseph Campbell
#23. The secret of happiness lies in the lifestyle of a child who lives in present; past and future are only the grammar thing for him.
Ankit Rawat
#24. I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar.
Cynthia Ozick
#25. People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage.
Natalie Cole
#27. You don't look very happy."
Tally tried to smile. David had shared his biggest secret with her; she should tell him hers. But she wasn't brave enough to say the words. "It's been a long night. That's all."
He smiled back. "Don't worry, it won't last forever.
Scott Westerfeld
#28. The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.
Alexis Carrel
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. I belong to a secret order. We all have OCD, so you'd better believe we have order.
Jarod Kintz
#32. Even as the needle that directs the hour,
(Touched with the loadstone) by the secret power
Of hidden Nature, points upon the pole;
Even so the wavering powers of my soul,
Touch'd by the virtue of Thy spirit, flee
From what is earth, and point alone to Thee.
Francis Quarles
#33. Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
Barbara Tuchman
#34. Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.
George Harrison
#35. 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
#36. Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
William Wilberforce
#37. She once told me that she loved me because I was the only thing she could hear. She can feel the vibration of the strings through the carved vessel of her instrument, but I am inside her. I am a song soaked into each bone of her secret body where the world has not been able to wander.
Simon Van Booy
#38. 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
#39. It is no secret that the world hates Christianity; but when the world runs out of options, they desperately look for God.
Felix Wantang
#40. One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
James Humes
#41. Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain
#42. The truth is, far too many people in our culture do not know what love is. And this not knowing feels like a terrible secret, a lack that we have to cover up.
Bell Hooks
#43. the complex integration of the three secret senses: the labyrinthine, the proprioceptive, and the visual. It is this synthesis that is impaired in Parkinsonism. The
Oliver Sacks
#44. Michelangelo was asked by the pope about the secret of his genius, particularly how he carved the statue of David, largely considered the masterpiece of all masterpieces. His answer was: "It's simple. I just remove everything that is not David.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#45. I used to believe in signs, omens, patterns, secret purpose, synchronicities.
Glen Duncan
#46. 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
#47. A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves.
Eugene O'Neill
#48. The mysterious sentence, "You are My Son; this day have I begotten You," may refer to the deep and secret Truth of God of the Eternal Filiation of our Lord, whatever that may be. But Paul quotes it in the 13th chapter of Acts as referring to His Resurrection.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#49. Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son.
Boyd K. Packer
#51. I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.
Jorge Luis Borges
#52. His voice is like a thunderstorm, and his hands know every secret hidden deep beneath the cool, dark earth.
Patrick Rothfuss
#53. With the selection of Acting Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy as the director, President Obama has guaranteed that the agency will continue to lurch from one shocking security failure to another.
Ronald Kessler
#54. The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must
be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.
Frank Pittman
#55. We frequently applaud failure in theory, but the dirty little secret is that it makes all of us feel at least a little ashamed.
Whitney Johnson
#56. It's hard to keep a secret when it's written all over your body ...
Julia Hoban
#57. There's the rub. The manifesto doesn't say; it leaves you with your mouth watering. But it was important; so important, it had to remain secret.
Umberto Eco
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. A secret is powerful when it is empty.
Umberto Eco
#61. 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
#62. Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean the flesh perceived by the senses, but that secret thing which is sometimes expressed by spirit, and sometimes by soul.
Al-Ghazali
#63. The secret to sucessful customer service starts with YES!
Jeffrey Gitomer
#64. The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment.
Charles Brent
#68. Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.
Katherine Paterson
#69. I think you keep two sets of books. In one set, you record the truth
how well you are really doing. This is the secret set
just for you and loved ones. In the other set are more modest entries and statements, and these are for public consumption!
Helen Gurley Brown
#70. I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy
old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#71. The secret of an abundant life is to expand it with more beginnings so that the universe can fill your world from many directions.
Debasish Mridha
#72. A letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure of life may be tasted, the region of imagination, creative and protean, the clouds and beautiful shapes of whose heaven are destroyed by the wind of reality.
Vita Sackville-West
#73. I love the responsibility of being a Victoria's Secret spokesmodel. It's a great life skill.
Erin Heatherton
#74. Scent of old books a mystery; a secret port of the dreamers.
China Cancio
#75. Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
Richard Von Weizsaecker
#76. Shaul is sure that Israel's test of survival, daily undergone, is the secret of Israeli enterprise. When you're concerned about your survival, every day, you think outside of the box
George Gilder
#77. 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
#78. I like that library books have secret lives. All those hands that have held them. All those eyes that have read them.
Neela Vaswani
#79. Deep in the secret chambers of my heart I muse my life-long hate, and without flinch I bear it nobly as I live my part.
Claude McKay
#80. Maybe the reason it's easier to shrug away one who has made us their secret love is simply because we know our own flaws; we know under the right light, that illusion they believe will fall, and show us for what we really are instead of who they secretly hope us to be.
Stefanie Schneider
#81. He claimed that no act or thought that did not have love as its purpose was of God. Love was the secret of God's perfection. Man was imperfect only because of his inability to live life as a continuous act of love.
Michael Puttonen
#82. 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
#83. Life's incredibly boring. I don't say that in an effort to seem vaguely amusing but the secret of life is that there's no secret, it's just exceedingly boring.
Morrissey
#84. While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
Dana Carvey
#85. Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an 'apocalypse of Nature,' a revealing of the 'open secret.
Thomas Carlyle
#86. he'd learned the secret of a richer, more powerful adult rage. "It isn't how it was! It never will be again! They changed the rules on us, so as far as I'm concerned all bets are off." He cinched his belt tight. "If They apologized, if They showed
Lev Grossman
#87. On a regular basis, to appease White House or campaign staffs, Secret Service officials order agents to ignore basic security rules and let people into events without being put through a magnetometer or metal detector.
Ronald Kessler
#88. The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.
Richard Sharp
#89. You want to know another secret? The biggest secret?" She sat, splaying her legs like a broken doll in front of her. "I'm scared, Kai. I'm so scared.
Marissa Meyer
#90. Once I began following my own instincts, sales took off and I became a millionaire. And that, I think, is a key secret to every person's success, be they male or female, banker or p0rnographer:Trust in your gut.
Larry Flynt
#91. I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.
Lucy Walker
#92. The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.
Colin Chapman
#93. There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.
Socrates
#94. I believe people who shower twice a day are hiding a secret, or a sandwich.
Chelsea Handler
#95. Are memories pictures or the secret doorway?
Lynda Barry
#96. The secret to always being in the right place at the right time is knowing that you always are. Mike Dooley
Bruce Van Horn
#97. 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
#98. Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends' secret places.
Tana French
#99. The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.
Paul Schrader
#100. Northern Ireland is the world's best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.
Liam Neeson
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