[N]othing is less reliable than unchecked claims from political officials that their secret conduct is justified by National Security Threats and the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
For the artist, fulfillment of self consists not in marching in the ranks of the liberators but in being entered in the… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Despite what The Wall Street Journal says, our awards are the best-kept secret in America, with the possible exception of what George… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
It's funny to think about the uncanny reflexively, as an author who is perhaps gradually becoming aware of my own hidden secrets.… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
It's a dirty little secret that most New Yorkers are pleasant, thoughtful, patient, and polite. The Chamber of Commerce must work overtime… — Judith Kelman Copy Share Image
Photographing these flowers has made me see the world differently. It was as if I had lifted a secret veil from a… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
IF YOUR FRIEND TOLD YOU SOMETHING THATS A SECRET AND YOU GO AND TELL SOMEBODY ELSE DONT EVEN CALL YOURSELF A FRIEND… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
there is that wish, in the name of democracy, to level down, because high cultural standards are despised and rejected, and even… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
“When you keep a secret from those closest to you, even with the best of motives, there is a danger that you… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge?… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing in music is still to write a melody of several bars which can be self-sufficient. That is the… — Darius Milhaud Copy Share Image
I have drawn things since I was 6. All that I made before the age of 65 is not worth counting. At… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
Let the jerks of the world serve as the perfect example of what you don't want to be. You'll be a heck… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake...… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The progress of science in furnishing the government with means of espionage is not likely to stop with wire tapping. Ways may… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
There are things I've done in the past I'm not proud of - and I could talk about them if I wanted… — Faith Hill Copy Share Image
There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to… — John Glover Copy Share Image
Advent is the season of the secret, the secret of the growth of Christ, of divine love growing in silence…For nine months,… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
I'm reminded of a female patient who was particularly aroused by the shape of her husband's shoulder. And this hint of perversion… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That was the secret, he believed, to success in any endeavor: to be a careful, knowledgeable, and efficient observer of the world,… — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share Image
Every conscious act requires risk. Every conscious act requires decision. Put these two facts together and you realize that the secret to… — Mike Caro Copy Share Image
The true art of being young is knowing how to defy gravity and upset as many people as possible while doing it.… — Mick Rock Copy Share Image
There can be...no power...to disclose...the secrets that may be buried with a human heart. The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and free done without subjection to… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I want to let you in on a little secret: I don't always feel like I'm a success. That's right. There are… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
[My kids] complained about Secret Service as they became teenagers, and Secret Service has done the very best job they could accommodating… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“In that moment he was everything I had and could never lose; my sun, my moon, my star, a rock, a chest… — Becky Wicks Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
We cannot make the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the United States someone who has risked America's secrets and lied about this… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Without a clear picture of where the military's covert forces are operating and what they are doing, Americans may not even recognize… — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“Secrets are like bullets. Ditto the dark, personal stuff. Folks say they'll take'em off yer hands, share the burden, but really they… — Erin Bowman Copy Share Image
The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in… — A. E. Waite Copy Share Image
Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer; Rarer is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret… — Richard Realf Copy Share Image