The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“How can I tell anyone that there has always lived within me a rusty sense of disgust-a dull, brackish water that I… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
Getting out of the house is the secret to staying alert through the droning hours leading up to the big meal, even… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
If there is anything that gives kingliness to the soul, it is patience. What was the secret of the masters who have… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
If you want to keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We have nothing now between us, save - respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret. — Martin Fleischmann Copy Share Image
“I want you to be my friend," she said in a most earnest tone. "And friends share secrets," she added. "Your secret… — Zøe Haslie Copy Share Image
It's not really that much of a big deal - you brush it off and you come back. Defeat is the secret… — Conor McGregor Copy Share Image
The secret angels of God are only as alive as the marble angels of Michelangelo! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If you take any flower you please and look it over and turn it about and smell it and feel it and… — Gertrude Jekyll Copy Share Image
No one will ever ask me to sing because it's beautiful. My secret is hiding my musicianship behind humor. — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long. — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
With Akismet, there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
If I were to disclose all their rituals, I think that it would be easy to prove that witches are not diabolists;… — Gerald Gardner Copy Share Image
You know the secret to dunking a ball? Big hands. You've got to be able to palm it, and I couldn't. — Johnny Mathis Copy Share Image
Dinner was meat - not hunks of meat, as in Australia, but pathetic scraps of meat, as in Britain - which the… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Since many government-paid propagandists insinuate that we (HDZ) are in fact agents of (the Yugoslav secret services) UDBA and KOS, and point… — Franjo Tudjman Copy Share Image
I have a secret I am going to die. It's very sad but I have known about it for a while. You… — Lou Sanders Copy Share Image
I've said it before, but community colleges are the best-kept secret in the nation. — Jill Biden Copy Share Image
Secrets. I can't take then with me. If I do, when I go, when I arrive at my final destination, I'll be… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
There are leaks from the Embassy in Honduras. There was a coup in 2009. Obama broke with most of Latin America and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I really believe there is something in the nature of a democracy that naturally leads people to distrust the government, to assume… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
“Latent brain functions can be enabled by force majeure when we are facing the weirdness of an unknown reality.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“If you believe in something because of miracles, then another kind of miracles can make you deny it.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?' — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Growing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
To those who have as yet not learned the secret of true happiness, which is the joy of coming into the closest… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
You know, a lot of people come to me and they say, "Steve, how can you be so fucking funny?" There's a… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Secrets are inherently selfish. The longer you keep them, the harder it is to put yourself in other people's shoes about them… — James Scott Copy Share Image
