Secret Love Affair Quotes

#1. I like to have a secret love affair, a hidden life, something to lie about.

Graham Greene

#2. Fear is a great robber of power. It paralyzes the thinking faculties, ruins spontaneity, enthusiasm, and self confidence. It has a blighting effect upon all one's thoughts, moods, and efforts. It destroys ambition and efficiency.

Orison Swett Marden

#3. Friendship eased the heart and the mind, but there were times when the touch of arms around you healed an ache within that nothing else reached.

Anne Perry

#4. I try to spend a lot of time with people outside my direct reports. The view from the top is totally distorted. If you only spend time with your directs, you have no perspective on what's really going on.

Dick Costolo

#5. I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.

Muriel Barbery

#6. 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

#7. Happiness is not squeezing yourself into someone else's box.

Dayanara Ryelle

#8. If Destiny throws a stone at you, don't let it become a millstone. Make it into a milestone.

Sachin Tendulkar

#9. We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

Peter O'Toole

#10. It is a discreetly sensual act of disclosure, showing their pieces together in public. And assembling these lacquers also records their assignations: the collection records their love-affair, their own secret history of touch.

Edmund De Waal

#11. The first person I knew who died was Beth March. I cried for three days.

A. Louise Robertson

#12. And after all, if stupidity did not, when seen from within, look so exactly like talent as to be mistaken for it, and if it could not, when seen from the outside, appear as progress, genius, hope, and improvement, doubtless no one would want to be stupid, and there would be no stupidity.

Robert Musil

#13. You also want to fire people who a) create office politics, and b) who are persistently negative.

Sam Altman

#14. In my experience, cutting back is the crucial act that allows the vitality, precision and emotional heart of a piece of writing to emerge.

Pamela Erens

#15. To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.

Eric Clapton

#16. We need an employer verification system that works so that we can hold employers accountable.

Carly Fiorina