Best Secretly Quotations
411 Secretly quotes by 351 unique authors
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Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?
— Bruno Schulz
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Much of American wealth is an illusion which is being secretly gnawed away and much of it will be completely wiped out in the near…
— Howard Ruff
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Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what was I going…
— Richard Halliburton
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Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you.…
— Aldrich Ames
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The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.
— Charles A. Reich
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To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly…
— Cornelia Otis Skinner
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I'm not sure when or why the tabloid angle on me was decided that I am a cad. I would have much rather it had…
— Zach Braff
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There's always someone who secretly believes in myths and legends; or at least parts of them. Those are the people who will look beyond the…
— Aprilynne Pike
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The dust comes secretly day after day, Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. But O this dust I shall drive away Is…
— Unknown Author
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Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence.... If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities…
— Unknown Author
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Remind me," he paused, drawing in a stuttered gasp, "to never piss you off again. Christ, are you secretly a ninja?
— Unknown Author
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God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us,…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
— Agnes Smedley
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There are all these new books out there portraying Asian mothers as scheming, callous, overdriven people indifferent to their kids' true interests. For their part,…
— Amy Chua
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I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a…
— Conan O'Brien
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Does the human intellect, or "reason," really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation of forms? Or on the…
— David Abram
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I don't like small birds. They hop around so merrily outside my window, looking so innocent. but I know that secretly, they're watching my every…
— Jack Handey
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Unless you learn to play a duet in the same key, to the same rhythm, a slow process of disengagement will wedge you apart, first…
— Walter Wangerin
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You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?
— Charlotte Gainsbourg
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The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as to direct the thought of…
— Noam Chomsky
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I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet…
— Charlie Kaufman
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I believe in the immortality of the Theatre, it is a most joyous place to hide, for all those who have secretly put their childhood…
— Max Reinhardt
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Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over all…
— David Mumford
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Freud said that everything was secretly sexual. But etymologists know that sex is secretly food.
— Mark Forsyth
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Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly,…
— Os Guinness
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