Top 97 Secret Keeping Quotes
#1. This secret-keeping business was not for me.
Liz Czukas
#2. It was a rule of secret-keeping, in which she was well-versed: Ask not, lest ye be asked.
Laini Taylor
#3. I would not say that secret-keeping is one of my finer skills, actually.
Claire Danes
#4. The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Maximilien De Robespierre
#5. It wouldn't be bad to have the Secret Service keeping an eye on my teenage daughter. I personally am not troubled by the fact that there would be a couple of big guys with earpieces beside her, just in case.
Marco Rubio
#6. That's the secret to a movie career - just keeping an open mind.
Clint Eastwood
#7. she said. He had called me right before he was going to be operated on for cancer, and he was still keeping it a secret, she explained. I decided
Walter Isaacson
#8. I cut a lot of cringy sex stuff and a lot of stuff I thought was too personal. I think secret gardens are very special. I think we all have to have them. I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.
Damian Barr
#9. We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.
Peter Greenaway
#10. You can't bring a duffel bag that says 'I Heart Cheese' on it, that's just offensive.
Lauren Barnholdt
#11. So this is what you look like when you're keeping a giant secret from me - exactly the same as usual.
Rainbow Rowell
#12. Really, having a gun registry and having to rely on the government to keep it secret, the government isn't so great at keeping confidences.
Rand Paul
#13. I have always considered that there is a great deal of difference between keeping one's own secret, and keeping a secret for another soul;
Eleanor Catton
#14. Trade your secrets and become who you are.
Frank Warren
#15. 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
#16. Our lab had always refrained from keeping our studies secret.
Peter Agre
#17. 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
#18. The reason I'm keeping her secret for her, pretending that I don't know she's a girl is because I don't want to lose her. And that's exactly why I can't let her know that I know.
Hisaya Nakajo
#19. Imagine knowing that you're good at something, so good that the world would be in awe of you if they could see your work, and then keeping yourself a secret from the world.
Paul Auster
#20. A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Kenneth Tynan
#21. I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.
Joyce Rachelle
#22. 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
#24. I'd never forget how it felt to say those words. To be in our place. In love with you, in love with us, in love with our secret, with the island we were building, keeping out the whole wide world. There with you, I was ... safe.
Lauren Blakely
#25. The war waged against terror since September 11 puts a strain on democracy itself, because it is mostly waged in secret, using means that are at the edge of both law and morality. Yet democracies have shown themselves capable of keeping the secret exercise of power under control.
Michael Ignatieff
#26. The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#27. Some secrets are heavy because they aren't yours to tell.
Joyce Rachelle
#28. I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!
Miley Cyrus
#29. 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
#30. I needed to recognize those secrets I was keeping from myself- secrets I had buried long ago. I needed Post Secret just as much as the other people who were mailing me their secrets.
Frank Warren
#31. We fell into silence, both of us keeping our own secrets of what we'd suffered in the other's absence. I wondered if we were trying to protect each other or simply didn't want to admit to our own fears and weaknesses.
Richelle Mead
#32. It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it's so easy. it's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along.
Sarah Dessen
#33. That seemed to be, if anything, the power of writing - to hold sway over memory, making it public, keeping it private, possibly, even, keeping it secret from oneself -
Samuel R. Delany
#34. The secret to keeping winning streaks going is to maximize the victories while at the same time minimizing the defeats.
John Lowenstein
#35. Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.
Patricia Briggs
#36. This is why I am not religious. If and when we do learn the true secret of the universe, some kind of religion will be there to hide it. To cover it up. To persecute and shred, to burn and destroy. They stay in business by keeping us in the Dark Ages.
John Dunning
#37. I'm an expert at finding out secrets, but keeping them- especially a secret of this magnitude - is something else.
Hannah Harrington
#38. We know, we feel in our guts, that decisions are constantly being made which are going to wreck our ambitions, our dreams, our personal relationships. But the people making those decisions are keeping them secret, because if they don't they'll lose the leverage they have over their subordinates.
John Brunner
#39. My fat is political because when I show it off it really seems to piss people off. My fat is political because I'm keeping it. My fat is political because it's fucking hot. My fat is my flag, my claim to fame, my battle scar, my secret fat girl society badge.
Virgie Tovar
#40. It seemed to Ellie that you could tell a lot about someone by the way they carried a secret - by how safe they kept it, how soon they told, the way they acted when they were trying to keep it from spilling out.
Jennifer E. Smith
#41. I am like a tree that looks dead to the world, but when you climb to the very top, you find bright green limbs sucking sap one hundred feet from the ground. And you discover the tree is very much alive, and is keeping its secret of life from the world.
Ned Hayes
#42. The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful - never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any fear, thought or anxiety.
Sathya Sai Baba
#43. Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business; the trailer seldom goes far.
Charles M. Schwab
#44. 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
#45. Augustine's lips tense into a line. "Oh, for the gods' sakes, Little Jac," he snaps. "We know Lucent wasn't just your riding companion." At her stunned expression, Augustine laughs. "You are good at many things, but you are horrible at keeping your love interests a secret.
Marie Lu
#46. Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra has charged the Bush administration with keeping programs secret from Congress. Somehow no one from Congress reads the New York Times, I guess.
Jay Leno
#47. With every beat of my heart, I believe she thought keeping her secret was in everyone's best interest. She thought the secret would be buried with her, never to be revealed. She thought wrong.
Misa Rush
#48. The secret to keeping moving is keeping moving.
Dick Van Dyke
#49. Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.
Michael J. Gelb
#50. the U.S. government has a long history of overclassifying information that shouldn't be classified at all - and keeping information classified until long after any justification for classifying it has disappeared.
Rosa Brooks
#51. The more time you wait before telling somebody the truth about a secret you've been keeping, the longer your path out of the woods gets.
Andrew Smith
#52. Sometimes when we think we are keeping a secret, the secret is actually keeping us.
Frank Warren
#53. Keeping secrets is exhausting. When your whole life turns into a secret,
Robin York
#54. This is the secret to finding and keeping lasting friendships: become women who want to see the women around them flourish.
Lisa-Jo Baker
#55. He had found the secret of keeping for ever on the run the fundamental imbecility of mankind; he had the secret of life, that confounded dying man, and he made himself master of every moment of our existence.
Joseph Conrad
#56. Keeping a secret isn't the same as being a liar.
Suzanne Young
#57. The secret of achieving prosperity lies in so vividly keeping yourself centered in the inner focus of affluence that you literally exude the consciousness of it.
Eric Butterworth
#58. For now, what things have you done that you prefer to keep private? What things in your life do you insist on keeping secret? That's where we will find the shame that is attached to what we do.
Edward T. Welch
#59. The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
Margaret Atwood
#60. 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
#61. The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.
Lionel Hampton
#62. The secret to keeping one's actions concealed from the enemy is, in most cases, to learn what he thinks you will do, and then seem to be doing it, for that is what he'll believe
Susanna Kearsley
#63. There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day - bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#64. Sometimes keeping a secret seems like the right thing to do because telling the truth might hurt someone and makes it seem like you don't love them. But really, telling the truth is the right thing to do. It's the most loving thing to do.
-Kaylee
Ginny L. Yttrup
#65. Keeping a secret isn't always lying. Sometimes it's the only way to protect the person you love.
Jodi Picoult
#66. When I started wearing a yarmulke, I wanted to stand out or take the form of whatever was inspiring me. But now I think there's something to not working it, to keeping it on the inside, and it just being kind of like a secret.
Matisyahu
#67. 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
#68. Keeping your eyes on the bull's eye isn't always easy when its secret weapon is disguised as love.
C.C. Wyatt
#69. The disappointment in his voice was like a knife to the gut, but I was keeping this secret to protect him just as much as myself. I headed for the window, climbing out before him. What should
Denise Grover Swank
#70. 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
#71. There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not as a secret, but as a prayer.
Terry Tempest Williams
#72. That is how our marriage is working so well. My secret of happiness is keeping my contact to the minimum.
Cyrus Broacha
#73. 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
#74. I wondered what the FML post would look like.
"Today, when my father tried to shoot me, I found out he was an assassin monger who's been keeping my mom locked away in a secret facility for freaky killers. FML."
Seriously. F.M.L.
Jus Accardo
#75. I try to imagine keeping something like that a secret for my whole life. It would be like always wearing a mask over your face, which everyone believed was the real you. You would be the only person who knew it wasn't
and who knew that you could never take it off.
Liz Kessler
#76. After so long keeping to herself and tending her secret quietly, all these words just bubbled up out of her her like cool golden champagne.
Catherynne M Valente
#77. The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping you ass in the chair.
(ASS + CHAIR = PAGES!)
Oliver Stone
#78. 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
#79. How do you go about finding anything?
By keeping your mind and heart on it.
Interest there must be and steady remembrance.
To remember what needs to be remembered
is the secret of success.
You come to it through earnestness
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#80. I have never told anyone about this part of my life. Keeping it secret gave me a sense of control over the uncontrollable; unveiling the lies leaves me painfully exposed.
Maggi Myers
#81. 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
#82. Our personal fears and emotions are at times stronger than public danger. By keeping them secret, we allow them to remain malignant. You need to be able to articulate something if you want it to go away, and to do that, you must acknowledge that it exists.
Azar Nafisi
#83. And that's when I felt the first wave of sorrow that came from keeping a new secret.
Lauren Wolk
#84. 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
#85. The secret is not to "think" about thoughts, but to allow them to flow through the mind, while keeping your mind free of afterthoughts.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#86. If you want to keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
Benjamin Franklin
#87. If you have a problem I find keeping it a secret makes it so much stronger.
Josh Ramsay
#88. Making a series can sometimes feel like you're keeping a secret for months until it comes out; so when it finalizes in front of you, if you like the final product, it can be very exciting.
Tom Weston-Jones
#89. The secret of keeping young is to read children's books. You read the books they write for little children and you'll keep young. You read novels, philosophy, stuff like that and it makes you feel old.
John Cheever
#90. The problem with keeping a secret is that you don't give someone a chance to come through for you, to prove to you that they love you unconditionally.
Susan May Warren
#91. I'm very good at keeping a secret.
Sean Bean
#92. Thank you for keeping it a secret. There aren't many of those in this tribe.
Kristen Ashley
#93. Your biggest challenge as an entrepreneur is not concealing your idea from others or keeping your idea a secret, it is actually convincing people that you're not crazy and that you can pull this off.
Sean Parker
#94. The security of a cryptosystem must not depend on keeping secret the crypto-algorithm. The security depends only on keeping secret the key.
Simon Singh
#95. There are some secrets that we think we're keeping, but those secrets are actually keeping us.
Frank Warren
#96. There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power.
Robin Hobb
#97. How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
Michel De Montaigne
