Top 100 Secret To Quotes
#1. The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.
Theodor Schwenk
#2. In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It's bizarre.
David Wenham
#3. Was the secret of lasting youth known only to the criminal mind?
Graham Greene
#4. There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#5. I'm a Dreamer that's no Secret it's make me Happy, Positive, Satisfied and to see the good side of Life.
Jan Jansen
#6. The secret is to believe in your dreams; in your potential that you can be like your star, keep searching, keep believing and don't lose faith in yourself.
Neymar
#7. They say that family is the place of safety. But sometimes this is the greatest lie; family is not sanctuary, it is not safety and succour. For some of us, it is the secret wound. Sooner or later we pay for the woundings of our ancestors.
Nayomi Munaweera
#8. Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people.
Howard Zinn
#9. If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don't think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock.
Elliott Abrams
#10. She would never again lie in bed on a Good Friday morning and relax in the blissful knowledge that there was nothing to do and nowhere to be, because for the rest of her life, there would always, always be something left undone. An unmade confession. An ugly secret.
Liane Moriarty
#11. I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be with friends and the two things often need to be together ... it's a painful conflict that will never be smoothly resolved.
Morris Graves
#12. Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.
Horace
#13. The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.
Deepak Chopra
#14. It's risky to talk about one's most secret dreams a bit too early.
Tove Jansson
#15. Italy, like areas of her childhood, is a part of her world she has always kept secret from her husband. These are places she goes to renew her virginity.
Glenn Haybittle
#16. I've seen a lot of LA and I think it's also a place of secrets: secret houses, secret lives, secret pleasures. And no one is looking to the outside for verification that what they're doing is all right.
Victoria Tennant
#17. What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.
Alfred North Whitehead
#18. Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread. The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum.
Adele Griffin
#19. Guess there is a war on between them and us. But we never do anything about holding up our side of the war, except to keep our parade sites and our storage centers secret and to get out of bodies every time there's an air raid or the enemy fires a rocket or something.
Kurt Vonnegut
#20. I don't want to get close to people who have secrets that I don't know about.
Albert Brooks
#21. For the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.
Alice Foote MacDougall
#22. I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty.
Jack Johnson
#23. One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.
J.I. Packer
#25. No matter how secret a particular satellite was, it had to obey the same laws of physics as the rest of the solar system.
Trevor Paglen
#26. Brad Paisley has always been really great to me, and that's no secret.
Carrie Underwood
#29. I live on a ranch in Utah for now, but I'm gonna move. I've got another ranch to move to, but its location is a secret. When I get there, I'm gonna plow the road in behind me.
Wilford Brimley
#30. The dumplings had the flavor of paradise, and the broth spread through my veins like a secret that's fun to keep.
Lemony Snicket
#31. The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.
Maxwell Maltz
#32. The secret to disappearing is to stay where you are.
Richard House
#33. The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
Lewis Thomas
#34. The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.
Chuck Yeager
#35. I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.
Brian K. Vaughan
#36. ... the real secret to charisma is making each person you meet feel that they have your complete attention when they speak to you.
Nick Vujicic
#37. The secret to success is to stop when you're ahead.
Darren Shan
#38. IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.
Darl McBride
#39. At those moments his secret loathing of Big Brother changed into adoration, and Big Brother seemed to tower up, an invincible, fearless protector, standing like a rock against the hordes
George Orwell
#40. So, do you have to send The Piano Man the secret code word to come down?"
"Did you just call Josh The Piano Man?"
"Well, I thought we should have a code name for him in case anyone's listening when we talk about you, and your mom said he plays the piano.
Jennifer Comeaux
#41. I think I've discovered the secret of life
you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles M. Schulz
#42. What I wasn't expecting was the euphoria once my body began releasing endorphins. The mixture of pain and pleasure was ecstasy. Getting my tattoo introduced me to secret, dark pleasures. I would always be a marked prisoner, but I was a liberated soul.
Scarlet Risque
#43. The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.
Thomas Campion
#44. I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.
Veronica Roth
#45. Down Time's quaint stream
Without an oar
We are enforced to sail
Our Port a secret
Our Perchance a Gale
What Skipper would
Incur the Risk
What Buccaneer would ride
Without a surety from the Wind
Or schedule of the Tide
Emily Dickinson
#46. Better we see them seeing us, because then we can all see together, but when not seeing them seeing us we might not see them seeing us doing what we are doing. MI5 agent Iona von Ustinov (father of actor Peter Ustinov) to MI6 agent Desmond Bristow about the PDVE (Portuguese Secret Police) in 1944.
Desmond Bristow
#47. According to all that God commanded [Noah], so he did. Noah did "according to all that God commanded him, so he did" (Genesis 6:22). Therein lies the key and secret to Noah's faith. When God told him to do something, he did it. He was a man who took God at His word.
David Jeremiah
#48. Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom in secret love or strange affinity?
Oscar Wilde
#49. In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master; the rest were made by students. I had liked the ones by Raphael. This was a big jab for my self-confidence in my ability to appreciate art.
Richard P. Feynman
#50. It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#51. The secret to longevity in the music business is to change, and to be able to change. An actor has to assume other people's identities. A rock star doesn't need to do that. But change is important.
Nick Cave
#52. Here's the dirty little secret: Fiat currency is designed to lose value. Its very purpose is to confiscate your wealth and transfer it to the government. Each time the government prints a new dollar and spends it, the government gets the full purchasing power of that dollar.
Michael Maloney
#53. I was very aware that you were a girl, Ash. I was just scared because the one person in the world who knew every secret I'd ever had also happened to be the most beautiful girl I'd ever known. My feelings for you were scary as Hell.
Abbi Glines
#54. A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.
Charles Baudelaire
#55. We've got to be of service first before we can expect money.
Earl Nightingale
#56. I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.
Francois Truffaut
#57. The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
Paulo Coelho
#58. The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.
Thomas Adams
#59. Should I tell her that I can't sleep, I can't eat and I miss talkin' to her? Or just sittin' with her? That I miss the secret way she smiles at me? That I constantly think about the way she smells, the taste of her mouth, the feel of her skin, and the sound of her laughter?
Lorelei James
#60. Hard information on the quantity of bogus art sold is difficult to come by, in part because fraud, when discovered by dealers and auction houses, is usually kept secret to boost public confidence in the art market.
Peter Landesman
#61. Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.
Michel De Montaigne
#62. I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.
Daniel Defoe
#63. I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.
Larry Hagman
#64. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#65. It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.
James Clavell
#66. Every secret we confide in another
person can be a burden to them
Henning Mankell
#67. I will kill in cold blood just to know the secret you keep in your lonely eyes.
Nessie Q.
#68. God, if only I were smart enough to know I'm worth more than being kept secret
Anthony Paull
#69. The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
Andrew Carnegie
#70. All the light was now coming from the East; and it looked breathtakingly new. In a very short time, everything was nationalized, from banks to factories, from pharmacies to little distilleries.
Teodor Flonta
#71. The secret of concentration is to shut down the other windows.
Amit Ray
#72. Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run.
Branch Rickey
#73. The secret of happiness is to ignore your reflection in mirrors once you're over forty.
David Mitchell
#74. He treats his body like it's made of fireworks, each one timed to the beat. Is he dancing alone or dancing with everyone in the room? Here's the secret: It doesn't matter.
David Levithan
#75. The secret of politics is to care about success, but not too much.
Kenneth Minogue
#76. WESLEY AYERS is the stranger in the halls of the Coronado. He is the Keeper in the garden who shares my secret. He is the boy who reads me books. He is the one who teaches me how to touch.
Victoria Schwab
#77. I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.
Katy Perry
#78. The great secret in salam is it brings love, tranquility and peace to the person receiving the greeting.
Habib Kadhim Al-Saqqaf
#79. I don't fully understand my wife's emotions - and I'm supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?
Evan Goldberg
#80. Any team that has Shade as their leader is bound to have a pretty directionless quality. But when Cyborg asks Shade to gather the Secret Seven together and help him stop the war between Wonder Woman and Aquaman, Shade agrees - albeit reluctantly.
Peter Milligan
#81. Nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them
the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs ... if an Egg were to be taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end ...
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#82. It was stupid to hope for more. But it wouldn't be the first time her heart and her head had operated in opposition. The secret, foolish desire that she would be the one woman who he wanted more from.
Nikki Logan
#83. The angels have never made it a secret that they are with us; they want us to know that they are here, and they do their best to give us signs all the time.
Doreen Virtue
#84. The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you
Deborah Wiles
#85. Or, for one of our mothers, the secret to a good marriage, she said, was sex.
TaraShea Nesbit
#86. It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
Magic Johnson
#87. 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
#88. Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences. New Yorkers will remember well the end result of clandestine U.S. support for Islamic militants against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the 1980s: 9/11.
Nick Turse
#89. It's no secret that I am not afraid to shine bright and be festive, and I like to encourage that in others.
Cam Newton
#90. It almost seemed to her that those secret, unuttered, critical thoughts had suddenly taken visible and accusing shape and form in the person of this outspoken morsel of neglected humanity.
L.M. Montgomery
#91. The 'secret of life' is BELIEF. Rather than genes, it is our beliefs that control our lives. PSYCH-K is a set of simple, self-empowering techniques to change your beliefs and perceptions that impact your life at a cellular level.
Bruce H. Lipton
#92. In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?' His voice dropped to a whisper. 'But here's the secret: in between, we need others as well.
Mitch Albom
#93. A magical blending of mystery, romance, and deep and dangerous secrets. Kelly Parra's Invisible Touch is an action-packed coming-of-age novel, sure to keep readers turning pages and begging for a sequel.
Laurie Faria Stolarz
#94. I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.
Salman Rushdie
#95. For those gamblers who know the secret to surviving Is knowing what to throw away And knowing what to keep
Karina Halle
#96. It was the only lie she ever told. She did not do it to protect Francisco; she did it because she felt, for some reason which she could not define, that the incident was a secret too precious to share.
Ayn Rand
#97. Open Secret boasts a nifty plot and, in Coroner Fortin, a fascinating protagonist who will likely be around for a long time. Deryn Collier is a talent to watch,
Giles Blunt
#98. The secret is...
That it's not about how we obtain our dreams,
it's about how we live our life.
If we live our life the right way,
the dreams will come to us...
Jose N. Harris
#99. I will do today that which is of today and pay no heed to the tomorrow; nor waste regrets on that which was yesterday.
Walter Russell
#100. The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the various mystery schools have kept the flame alive by passing on the secret techniques for attaining enlightenment from the time of Atlantis to our present day.
Frederick Lenz
