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Quotes About Secret

It was this night that he told me the strange story of his youth with Dan Cody—told it to me because "Jay Gatsby" had broken up like glass against Tom's hard malice, and the long secret extravaganza was played out.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswire across his character and disposition and general outlook. With some men it's secret and we never know it's there until they strike us in the dark one night.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Vous m'avez dit qu'une conductrice imprudente ne risquait rien tant qu'elle ne rencontrait pas de conducteur imprudent. J'en ai rencontré un, vous ne croyez pas? Je veux dire que je me suis mise en danger en faisant une telle erreur de jugement. J'ai cru que vous étiez quelqu'un d'honnête, de loyal. J'ai cru que c'était là votre secret d'orgueil.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cuántas horas he pasado conviviendo en secreto con mi idea de ella! ¡Nos hemos amado tanto, dentro de mis sueños! Pero ni siquiera ahí, se lo juro, he soñado nunca poseerla. Soy delicado y casto incluso en mis sueños. Respeto hasta el sueño de una mujer bella.
~ Fernado Pessoa
El principio de la ciencia es saber que ignoramos. El mundo, que es el lugar donde estamos; la carne, que es lo que somos; el Diablo, que es aquello que deseamos: los tres, en un Momento Culminante, mataron al maestro que íbamos a ser. Y aquel secreto que él guardaba, para que nos convirtiéramos en él, ese secreto se perdió.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Tenho um segredo comigo Que me faz sempre cismar, É se quero estar contigo Ou quero contigo estar.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Every gesture, however simple, violates an inner secret. Every gesture is a revolutionary act; an exile, perhaps, from the true ... of our intentions. Action is a disease of thought, a cancer of imagination. Action is self-exile. Every action is incomplete and flawed.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Every married couple in the world is a mismatch because each person harbors, in the secret part of the soul that belongs to the Devil, the subtle image of the man they desire but who is not their husband, the nubile figure of the sublime woman their wife never was.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
~ W. Mark Felt
My filthy little secret is that I've always wanted to be famous and I don't get nervous being on TV.
~ Anne Hegerty
Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible.
~ Cecil Rhodes
Bradbury was the one guy who was published in places like the 'Saturday Evening Post.' He was the guy who brought science fiction to the masses. If he hadn't existed, science fiction would have been a well-kept secret in literature instead of a widely consumed phenomenon.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Before Christianity became the Roman Empire's official religion in the 4th Century, 'mystery religions,' organized around a central canon of secret knowledge, were widespread. Membership in such religions was limited to people who had passed through secret initiation rituals and had begun to learn a body of hidden knowledge.
~ Trevor Paglen
I've always been a secret locked-room fanatic. I read my first one when I was about ten or 11, Agatha Christie's 'Murder on the Orient Express,' with David Niven and Peter Ustinov on the cover.
~ Adrian McKinty
The best-kept secret about Don Johnson is the fact that he is a terrific actor.
~ Michael Mann
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.
~ Georges Bataille
When I'm in Jerusalem, I stay at the American Colony Hotel, neutral territory: the secret peace talks of 1992/3 started there.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it's also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures.
~ Horst Koehler
There's a joy in having the molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the night before.
~ Mike Myers
This woman wasn't fat anywhere. She was slim as a whispered secret, and twice as dangerous, too.
~ Robert Rankin
She's my daughter. She's my sister.
~ Robert Towne
Jesus taught that the secret life we have with God is one of the true tests of the genuineness of our relationship with him.
~ Robert Whitlow
Y cómo te va? -Muy bien... La farmacia da setenta pesos diarios. En Pico no hay otro que conozca la Biblia como yo. Lo desafié al cura a una controversia y no quiso agarrar viaje. Erdosain miró repentinamente esperanzado a su extraño amigo. Luego le preguntó: -¿Jugás siempre? -Sí, y Jesús, por mi mucha inocencia, me ha revelado el secreto de la ruleta
~ Roberto Arlt
There's a secret sickness called Lisa. Like all sicknesses, it's miserable and it comes on at night.
~ Roberto Bolano