Secretive Quotes
61 Secretive quotes by 52 unique authors
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The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.
— Bernie Sanders
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Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.
— Jonathan Lynn
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I am going to be on 'True Blood.' It was really exciting. I had a great time shooting it. I spent the last nine months…
— Scott Foley
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It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind…
— Glenn Greenwald
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Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy,…
— Ron Fournier
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I don't particularly like going on about being gay or making a big thing about it, but I think it's a bit of a pain…
— Evan Davis
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the…
— Helen Thomas
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Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we…
— Lynne Truss
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Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if…
— Tom Robbins
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My generation was secretive, brooding, ambitious, show-offy, and this generation is congenial. Totally. I imagine them walking around with GPS chips that notify them when…
— Garrison Keillor
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Wizards are a secretive lot.
— Patricia Briggs
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After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving behind…
— N.D. Wilson
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I don’t want to stand before you like a thing, shrewd, secretive. I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself…
— Margaret Atwood
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There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like…
— Margaret Atwood
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People are secretive when they have secrets.
— Deb Caletti
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In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?
— John Irving
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There had been no more attacks since those on Justin and Nearly Headless Nick, and Madam Pomfrey was pleased to report that the Mandrakes were…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.
— Anne Rice
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Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the…
— Jean Rhys
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I was modest--they accused me of being crafty: I became secretive. I felt deeply good and evil--nobody caressed me, everybody offended me: I became rancorous.…
— Mikhail Lermontov
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Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.
— Lyall Watson
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I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington. It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the…
— Glenn Greenwald
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