Secret Quotes · Page 213

It's an open secret that if a debtor is willing to wait long enough, he can probably get away with paying almost…

— Charles Duhigg

The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly…

— H. L. Mencken

I glance into the faces of all these people out for a Sunday stroll, but I'm not seeing eyes and noses and…

— Andrew Clements

My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not…

— Kinky Friedman

The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I end up feeling like a spy in the house of ethnicity, you know? Because people will talk around me as they…

— Sherman Alexie

I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve…

— Edwin Land

“In your heart is a secret room where all the gifts that life has given you, and which you haven’t opened yet,…

— Bianca Gaia

The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It's a wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did. Maybe you guessed that there was more…

— Anonymous

God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and…

— Avicenna

You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life?…

— Khalil Gibran

Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully…

— Lon Milo DuQuette

“There are certain things in a man's past which he does not divulge to everybody but, perhaps, only to his friends. Again…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Problems tend to be put into their proper perspective the moment we get off SELF, and on PURPOSE. By choosing your purpose…

— Hal Elrod

I guess that somehow I've survived as a professional guitar player. I've made it 16 years now and I feel like I'm…

— Monte Pittman

Never confide your secrets to paper; it is like throwing a stone in the air; and if you know who throws the…

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

I don't want to be awkward, but I've thought about this a lot, and all I want to say is in the…

— Lembit Opik

Writing-and this is the big secret-wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will…

— Julia Cameron

The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his…

— Robin G. Collingwood

The 'secret of life' is BELIEF. Rather than genes, it is our beliefs that control our lives. PSYCH-K is a set of…

— Bruce H. Lipton

I finally stopped worrying what people would think. I found out that almost everybody has some secret, some dark fear that if…

— David Sheff

Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not…

— William Hazlitt

Sometimes I think we keep secrets for the wrong reasons. If we could instead find that right person to talk to we…

— Frank Warren

The information that the Secret Service shared with the White House included hotel records and firsthand accounts - the same types of…

— Carol D. Leonnig

I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret…

— John Sexton

In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and…

— C.S. Friedman

The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that…

— John Stott

people like to keep their little secrets to themselves. It's like growing mushrooms in the cellar and running down to take a…

— Marjorie Kellogg

My turning point was my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. It was then that I, who had dedicated most of my life…

— Paulo Coelho

When a friend, then, indulges in the joy unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he makes the latter, in his…

— Alessandro Manzoni

My summers at Apple had taught me that the secret to encouraging creativity and producing the best possible product was to keep…

— Marc Benioff

We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it…

— Judy Grahn

“She read it again. It was fascinating and surreal, like reading a diary that had been hers when she was a teenager,…

— Lisa Genova

Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not…

— Anonymous

I've made no secret of the fact that I often wear wigs and have in fact launched my own 'Dynasty' range, named…

— Joan Collins

To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the…

— Beck

Some directors can tell stories and it becomes very intimate and small, and it's almost like a secret. Some directors have the…

— Noomi Rapace

The secret is to believe in your dreams; in your potential that you can be like your star, keep searching, keep believing…

— Neymar