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Quotes About Secret

I'm asked a lot what the best thing about cooking for a living is. And it's this: to be a part of a subculture. To be part of a historical continuum, a secret society with its own language and customs. To enjoy the instant gratification of making something good with one's hands--using all one's senses. It can be, at times, the purest and most unselfish way of giving pleasure (thought oral sex has to be a close second).
~ Anthony Bourdain
You want to know the banker's secret? Your interest payments will tack on an additional 100% or more to your loan value.
~ Anthony Robbins
Twas the moment deep When we are conscious of the secret dawn Amid the darkness that we feel is green . . . Thy face remembered is from other worlds, It has been died for, though I know not when, It has been sung of, though I know not where . . . She
~ Anya Seton
Please let me go, I won't tell...
~ April Henry
None knew who belonged to this ruthless society. The names of the participators in the deeds of blood and violence done under the name of religion were kept profoundly secret.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Heather hid a smile at the
~ Sherryl Woods
Imora Thea Mi Savur
~ Sherrylin Kenyon
I decided that I would choose three powerful words, words of strong protection, and so long as these great words were never spoken aloud no change would come.
~ Shirley Jackson
I will not put a name to what has no name
~ Shirley Jackson
But it looked as if Brother Edvin had become so wrinkled simply from smiling at people. Kristin thought she had never seen anyone who looked so cheerful or so kind. He seemed to carry within him a luminous and secret joy, and she was able to share it whenever he spoke.
~ Sigrid Undset
Vigenère's work culminated in his Traicté des Chiffres ("A Treatise on Secret Writing"), published in 1586. Ironically, this was the same year that Thomas Phelippes was breaking the cipher of Mary Queen of Scots. If only Mary's secretary had read this treatise, he would have known about the Vigenère cipher, Mary's messages to Babington would have baffled Phelippes, and her life might have been spared.
~ Simon Singh
I didn't know the first thing about the people around me, but that didn't matter: I was in a new world; and I had the feelings that at last I had put my finger on the secret of freedom.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
O segredo da felicidade e o cúmulo da arte é viver como todo mundo e ser como ninguém.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
It sometimes happens that a thought, either formulated to oneself or not formulated at all, works secretly on the mind and yet has but little direct influence over it.
~ Simone Weil
The true God is the God we conceive as all-powerful, but Who nevertheless does not command it where He has the power, for God is found only in the heavens or here below in secret.
~ Simone Weil
For the action of grace in our hearts is secret and silent.
~ Simone Weil
When authentic friends of God, such as Meister Eckhart in my opinion, repeat words they heard in secret amidst the silence during union with God, and are in disagreement with the teachings of the Church, it is simply that the language of the marketplace is not that of the nuptial chamber.
~ Simone Weil
There are few men who do not look back in secret to some period of their youth, at which a sincere and early affection was repulsed, or betrayed, or became abortive through opposing circumstances. It is these little passages of secret history, which leave a tinge of romance in every bosom, scarce permitting us, even in the most busy or advanced period of life, to listen with total indifference to a tale of true love.
~ Sir Walter Scott
What I've learned since being out in the dating field is: A lot of men are really boring. Or else they're not boring, they're super-fun and exciting, but they have four other secret girlfriends they never mentioned....
~ Sophie Kinsella
To a terrible place which men's ears             may not hear of, nor their eyes see it.
~ Sophocles
Noor was Sajida's secret. She knew the exact moment her child was conceived. Purple passed slowly, the lowest of clouds, over her eyes. Bathed in such magnificent color, Sajida lay perfectly still. Much later, she would try to relive the exact moment, as if she needed to understand how the fact of her child could have entered her body and mind at the same time. But Sajida would not summon the gentle shade ever again.
~ Sorayya Khan
tik?jim? tur?ti - pavyd?tina dalia, net jei niekas apie tai nežinot?. (7-8)
~ Soren Kierkegaard
This is the profound secret of innocence, that at the same time it is dread.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Now comes the mystery! (last words)
~ Henry Ward Beecher