Secret Quotes · Page 118

Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.

— Guy Finley

“I have always considered that there is a great deal of difference between keeping one's own secret, and keeping a secret for…

— Eleanor Catton

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

— Jilly Cooper

Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops

— Anonymous

Sometimes the ones who seem the most holy in public are the ones hiding the most dirty of secrets behind closed doors.

— Sashauni Aaeliyae

A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters,…

— Paul Gauguin

Maybe this is the secret to talking to boys--maybe you just have to be angry all the time.

— Lauren Oliver

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.

— Herbert Simon

The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to…

— John Mortimer

Plenty of funds have fine long-term returns despite being tax-inefficient and generally costly. But a dirty secret is this: Average, no-load fund…

— Kenneth Fisher

All I knew about bees when I started to write 'The Secret Life of Bees' was that they can live in a…

— Sue Monk Kidd

The secret to happiness is to be working at your passion. If you want to be miserable, lead a desperate life like…

— Yvon Chouinard

I want to teach [people] the secret of great visual presentation. Your stomach sees the food first, and I want to help…

— Wolfgang Puck

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

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of…

— George Boole

I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to…

— Morris Graves

If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though…

— Rosellen Brown

I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the…

— Nancy Reagan

Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often…

— Katherine Cecil Thurston

It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small…

— Francois Mauriac

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness; Without subtle ingenuity…

— Sun Tzu

“You can't tell your teacher that my name is James Witherspoon. Atlanta ain't nothing but a country town, and everyone knows everybody.…

— Tayari Jones

Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars,…

— Hermann Hesse

Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a…

— Barack Obama

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

— Jack Penn

Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them.

— Napoleon Hill

Some secrets should never turn into confessions. I know that better than anyone.

— Colleen Hoover

Tap into what you don't want to say. Tap into that secret place, despite the agony, despite the personal pain, over and…

— Arthur Penn

The best-kept secret about Don Johnson is the fact that he is a terrific actor.

— Michael Mann

When people write about secret societies, there is a desire to demystify them. I wanted to hyper-mystify them.

— Leigh Bardugo

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.

— Stephen King

Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success.

— Albert Einstein

You keep a secret inside of you and it feels like a wall that separates you from others.

— Frank Warren

What good is a secret if it remains a secret ... Secrets are meant to be discovered...

— Jocelyn Murray

The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out…

— Anonymous

When I was 12 years old, I was obsessed with codes, conspiracies, and secret messages.

— Alex Hirsch

The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.

— Carmen Laforet

“I'm an expert at finding out secrets, but keeping them- especially a secret of this magnitude - is something else.”

— Hannah Harrington