Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release. — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The difficulty is the levels of secrecy we had to maintain around the project at all different times. We had to keep… — Amy Ziering Copy Share Image
True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
For me, the constitutive element of an affair is the secrecy. It is the secrecy that leads to the lying, to the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond… — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
“One day I'm a normal person with a normal life,” he said. “The next I'm standing on a street corner in Madrid… — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I was worried about my own vagina. It needed a context of other vaginas-- a community, a culture of vaginas. There's so… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they get out to the floor. And… — John William McCormack Copy Share Image
I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Let it be your business every day, in the secrecy of the inner chamber, to meet the holy God. You will be… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I have replaced my instinct for secrecy with an instinct for confession. — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude! — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
