Secret Quotes · Page 142

When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.

— Anne Michaels

The secret of success is to be like a duck, Smooth and unruffled on top, But paddling furiously underneath.

— Bill Cosby

The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.

— David Allen

[President Bush should] quit hiding behind the Secret Service, come out and face the nation and explain his failure to protect the…

— Peter Jennings

This Love has whispered secrets in your ear that don't make sense to anybody else. You know who You are. You are…

— Rumi

There are secrets everywhere. I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.

— Daniel Handler

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

— Honore de Balzac

“The only secrets that are good are the ones with an ending. Keep surprises instead of secrets in your home.”

— Carolyn Byers Ruch

“Our secrets make us sick because they separate us from other people. Keep us alone. Turn us into fearful, angry, bitter people.…

— Louise Penny

I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't…

— Grete Waitz

Everything in my room was old and faded, but I loved that about it. It felt like there might be secrets in…

— Jenny Han

Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability…

— Halle Berry

I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that…

— Anonymous

I think women dress for other women to let them know what their deal is. Because if women were only dressing for…

— Tina Fey

I felt at some point that I had nothing to lose, and [laughs] maybe I was wrong. I think, you know, there's…

— Billy Collins

On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from…

— Anonymous

Usually, I think it's best to play the song for them once and have them mix it up on the spot, because…

— Larkin Grimm

Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An…

— Paul Cezanne

Eddie Drood: Is this why we become agents? To play games, to chase after secrets that are rarely worth all the blood…

— Simon R. Green

“I’ll tell you another secret, this one for your own good. You may think the past has something to tell you. You…

— Lauren Oliver

Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless…

— Tea Obreht

“Sina jinsi. Nguzo ya maisha yangu ni historia ya maisha yangu. Historia ya maisha yangu ni urithi wa watu waliojifunza kusema hapana…

— Enock Maregesi

If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we…

— Alice Hoffman

We must know who we are, so we can know what we want, so we don't end up wanting the wrong thing…

— Margaret Cho

“The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.'—Psalms 25:14.”

— James E. Talmage

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close…

— George Burns

Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

— Winston Churchill

The secret to success in business, and in life, is to serve others. Put others first in all you do.

— Kevin Stirtz

People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.

— James Earl Jones

I come from a place where people get high, the grades get low and if someone has a secret everybody knows.

— Wiz Khalifa

“A secret in his mouth, is like a wild bird put into a cage; whose door no sooner opens, but 'tis out.”

— Samuel Johnson

I didn't have the easiest time growing up; it's no secret. We were just poor.

— AJ Lee

Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.

— Delphine de Vigan

I don't want to get close to people who have secrets that I don't know about.

— Albert Brooks

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

— Thomas Hobbes

God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence.

— Stephen Charnock

Doesn't try to hide his twinkle tears in own eyes, it says your thy secret of heart, that you can not ever…

— Mak_786

“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that…

— Don DeLillo

The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

— Luigi Pirandello

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.

— Soren Kierkegaard