Quotes About Secret

In secret pleasure — secret tears This changeful life has slipped away

Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.

The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives.

Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.

I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

She loved mysteries so much that she became one.

I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor.

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

this new faith has a secret energy that will keep on working even should you best King Charles on the field of battle.

It is known, I was told.

There is a common language, a mode of consciousness, almost a secret sign which can be read and recognized by all who are similarly engaged. Such realizations help fend off the feeling of isolation which can dog the steps of those who seek the Grail.

There is no good in most of their secret counsels except (in) him who enjoins charity or goodness or reconciliation between

He smiled, the cherub with a wicked secret.

Orphans. Dream of being secret princesses." Perceval's thumbs made firm circles in Rien's muscles. "And so?" she said. "You are.

There must be perfect towns where shadows were strong like buildings, towns secret without coldness, unaware without indifference.

They had always been there, just hidden, sometimes, sadly, self-hating, but always there. The women, the church within the church, like Mary in the Sacristy, with their own secret rites. The thread wound back through a labyrinth, through thousands of years, into a ball, round and bright as the full moon.

but she knew also that what the world sees of the life of any human creature is not the real life; that life is lived in secret, a reality that moves behind the facade of appearance, like wind behind a painted curtain; only an occasional ripple of the surface, a smile, a sudden light or shadow passing on a face, surprising by its unexpectedness, gives news of something quite other than what is seen.

So maybe you were that guy that I always talked about. And maybe just maybe everyday I secretly hoped you would figure it out.

The secret in life is enjoying the passage of time. —RICHIE HAVENS

How can it be when we're all safeguarding the very same story? That's why Rumi calls it an Open Secret.

No one, to my knowledge, has figured out the secret to love. We love imperfectly, Tyler. We all do. Even Jesus wrestled with that. But I think - I think the ability to receive love is as important as the ability to give it. It's one and the same really.

Gridlock at the public level guarantees liberty at the private level: this was the dirty little secret Madison dared to unveil in the Federalist Papers.

Gridlock at the public level guarantees liberty at the private level: this was the dirty little secret Madison dared to unveil in the Federalist Papers. If scholars sometimes joke that David Hume is the "real" author of the Tenth Federalist, it is not just because it lays out Hume's vision of an extended republic managing to govern itself into perpetuity.