A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode Among the… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Vayl, this is not a pleasant moment for me," I confessed. "No?" "Locked in a windowless, doorless room with a dancing, headless… — Jennifer Rardin Copy Share Image
“So what should be secret, then? “Every situation is different,” he (Domscheit-Berg) answers. “Drawing the line is the toughest question in this… — Andy Greenberg Copy Share Image
One of the oldest secrets of alchemy is that every living thing, from the most complex creatures right down to the simplest… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I always love writing the third book in a series because you get to tie up all the threads that you put… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports,… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
“The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
My secret for writing is going back to clarity. I'm very clear about what I want to accomplish-the goal-and then the next… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Jefferson, though the secret vote was still unknown at the time had at least a foreboding of how dangerous it might be… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There are things that I canna tell you, at least not yet. And I'll ask nothing of ye that ye canna give… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
But now all the natural secrets have been exposed, and it is likely that the turtles have been sold to laboratory scientists… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with… — Solon Copy Share Image
I've learned that one of my greatest secrets is scheduling downtime into a busy schedule. This gives me the time to have… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
“What is the secret of life?’ I asked. ‘I forget,’ said Sandra. ‘Protein,’ the bartender declared. ‘They found something out about protein.‘… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin air where we… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful - never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I have a lot of secret uses for sour cream, which is the magic ingredient in my mac and cheese. It's an… — Paula Deen Copy Share Image
The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
...It felt like they were telling each other secrets. Everything they said felt like that—whispered, tender, full of other meanings, like when… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
For those few of you who never heard of 'The Secret,' it's a worldwide best selling book touting the benefits of positive… — Jenna Morasca Copy Share Image
Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys...… — Sarah Copy Share Image
“Accordingly, I have now, for some time, been digging into the relevant works of Gibbon, Mommsen, and Goldwin Smith, but I am… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
Unlike the Japanese internment, water-boarding was ordered and served up in secret. But it, too, was America's policy, not just Dick Cheney's.… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from… — David Hume Copy Share Image
This was a secret meeting on a secret tour which nobody is supposed to know about. It means that there are men,… — Edward Heath Copy Share Image
I dated a guy for over a year who lied about his age the entire time. I found out after the fact… — Kirsten Prout Copy Share Image
Today anyone on the Internet can find out more about what you read, think, and earn than the secret police of Stalin… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
One of the dirty little secrets of the stock market rally is that the rising corporate profits that powered it are largely… — Charles Hugh Smith Copy Share Image
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
