Secrets, power. It’s all a metaphor.

At the core of an analytical edge is an ability to systematically distinguish between fundamentals and expectations. Fundamentals are a well thought out distribution…

— Michael Mauboussin

“When you know a man’s secrets, you have power over him. A man’s secret is his weakness.”

— Brent Weeks

I gave you everything, including the secrets and the power to destroy me, so FUCK LOVE cuz you used them on me and ill…

— Cause Guys Get Fucked By Love Too

Secrets have power, and that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important…

— Erin Morgenstern

Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important…

— Erin Morgenstern

“Secrets had the power to make people stick together against the rest of the world.”

— Victor Methos

Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use…

— George Henry Lewes

“The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do... ”

— Joe Abercrombie

“The secret to unseating great power, is not to move the other direction, but to compete directly against their goals.”

— Bryant McGill

Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.

— William P. Young

I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.

— Anonymous

“Despite which, Charlie seems doomed to stumble around in the dark, clutching pieces of a puzzle he still can't see.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume…

— Umberto Eco

Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

— Adrian Frutiger

I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will…

— Seth Grahame-Smith