Best Secretly Wisdom
411 Secretly quotes by 351 unique authors
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I’ve discovered that my best work comes from the uncomfortable but fruitful feeling of not having a clue – of being worried, secretly afraid, even…
— Dani Shapiro
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Why do we love the idea that people might be secretly working together to control and organise the world? Because we don't like to face…
— Jonathan Cainer
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It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure)…
— Criss Jami
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There is a difference between criticizing people and criticizing a people's uninformed ideals. That is, unless one defines himself or others by their ideals, then…
— Criss Jami
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There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the…
— Tom Stoppard
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I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself.…
— William Gibson
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Oh, my, yes. I was raised in this Southern culture where if a guy was sarcastic, that just meant he didn't know how to show…
— Ginnifer Goodwin
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It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great…
— Lady Gregory
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I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.
— Lev Grossman
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My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.
— Gail Collins
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
— Zooey Deschanel
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One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't…
— Joan Didion
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By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career,…
— Will Ferrell
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Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
— Bryan Ferry
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My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has…
— Joanne Harris
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I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for…
— Salma Hayek
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I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're…
— Katharine Hepburn
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I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.
— Chief Joseph
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Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
— Jack Kerouac
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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
— John Maynard Keynes
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Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole…
— Anne Lamott
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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they…
— David Ogilvy
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We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to…
— Blaise Pascal
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I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room.
— Christina Ricci
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