Secret Quotes · Page 140

There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“If someone slaps you on one cheek, offer the other cheek also... but of course if you were able to stand soberly…

— Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident

You want to know the secret of life? It is to breathe in and out. And the mystery of life? You never…

— Sixto Rodriguez

Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else.

— Keith Haring

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

— Andrew Carnegie

There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Man is whole when he is in tune with the winds, the stars, and the hills... Being in tune with the universe…

— William O. Douglas

A lot of women lead secret lives with hidden agendas...But when the truth comes out, it comes out swinging.

— Anonymous

I've had an absolutely charmed life in every aspect of it. I do for my job what I would do for a…

— Graeme Base

and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret…

— Douglas Adams

I don't know, if I had the secret recipe that I actually could give everybody, I think it has to do very…

— Antonio Banderas

I'm going to tell you a secret. Our lives are shaped by the future, not by the past. Once you decide how…

— Wendy Mass

I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for…

— Anthony Bourdain

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the…

— George Bernard Shaw

Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to…

— Oswald Chambers

He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he…

— John Barth

We cannot embrace His cross, and yet refuse our own. We cannot raise the cup of His remembrance to our lips, without…

— James Martineau

“that type of secret, although, we have to admit, it had felt different. Tasted different too. All good secrets have a taste…

— Brit Bennett

Do you want a successful career or a close relationship with your family? Both! Do you want a focus on business or…

— T. Harv Eker

Many mothers are wholly ignorant of the almost universal prevalence of secret vice, or self-abuse among the young. Why hesitate to say…

— John Harvey Kellogg

“Can you keep a secret, Sarah?" she asked. I nodded, remembering all our secrets shared together in her mother's house, and she…

— Kathleen Kent

Now, because he knows that his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in…

— Barack Obama

It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit,…

— Joseph Addison

“I will not say: that is because I am a city that does not want to surrender. Beseige me. It is because…

— Hélène Cixous

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

— William Law

It is an open secret that customs officers pay millions in bribes to secure the lucrative posting in the airport, cargo terminals…

— Sucheta Dalal

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: The million other straws underneath it.

— Mos Def

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.

— Charlotte Bronte

[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“What is addiction? Only those that have been kept secret; are addictions. Those that are openly visible cannot be called addiction.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

— Christopher Wren

Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.

— Hal Duncan

Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.

— Adriana Trigiani

“The Masons are not a secret society... they are a society with secrets”

— Dan Brown

Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's…

— Gabriel Ba

...it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.

— Patrick Rothfuss

The secret, which is not so secret after all, is that the people who we love live on in our hearts, in…

— M.J. Rose

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.

— Haruki Murakami