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Quotes About Secret

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion that if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilled on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What we finally do, out of desperation ... is go on an impossible, or even forbidden, journey or pilgrimage, which from a rational point of view is futile: to find the one wise man, whomever or wherever he may be; and to find from him the secret of eternal life or the secret of adjusting to this life as best we can.
~ Herbert Mason
Pierre little foresaw that this world hath a secret deeper than beauty, and Life some burdens heavier than death.
~ Herman Melville
The U.S., often in secret, carries out counterterrorism missions all the time, with drones in places like Yemen and Somalia.
~ Richard Engel
Yes, I performed at the Secret Policeman's Ball at Radio City Music Hall and loved every minute.
~ Matt Berry
I am comfortable being gay. Most of my adult life, it's never been a secret. I knew I was gay when I was in high school. I am just fortunate I have lived in two of the most gay-friendly places in the world: New York and London.
~ Richard Quest
Think Indonesia and tourism, and the first thing that comes to mind is probably Bali. Think golf holiday, and most people would dream of Scotland or Ireland. But Indonesia harbors one of the best-kept secrets in the world of travel: it is a golfer's paradise.
~ Raymond Bonner
A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that's tremendously freeing. If it doesn't matter much, the stakes are lower and you can't really fail. It's insurrection. It's a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm.
~ Daphne Gottlieb
We covet experience; we have a secret desire to learn, not from cold prohibition, but from trial, whether those things, which are not without a semblance of good, are really so ill as they are described to us.
~ William Godwin
She's my daughter. She's my sister.
~ Robert Towne
Truth ain't be in secret site to be found.It lies within certain levels of understanding and knowledge.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Smile as if you know the secret of life.
~ Debasish Mridha
The truth of the world is like Air, which is there but unexplainable.
~ Nitesh Sabne
We know your secret.And we won't be made invisible.
~ Caroline George, The Vestige
Some mysteries are meant to stay that way.
~ Truth Devour, Unrequited
I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.
~ Stephen Daldry
the derivative of experience." When toward the end of the chapter "Prayer" in Science and Health Eddy writes, "Christians rejoice in secret beauty and bounty, hidden from the world, but known to God," one senses that her words were rooted in her life.
~ Stephen Gottschalk
That had been his secret Indian Trick to hunting, back then: to not hunt. The same way you never find your wallet when you're actually looking for it. Just, keep a rifle with you.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
It's always seemed like a big mystery how nature, seemingly so effortlessly, manages to produce so much that seems to us so complex. Well, I think we found its secret. It's just sampling what's out there in the computational universe.
~ Stephen Wolfram
But here's a little secret, between you, me, and the rest of the mall: buying shit isn't enough. What we wish for in our secret hearts is self-expression, the chance to reveal ourselves and to be loved for this revelation, devoured by love. And thus, most of us go about our duties of commerce and leisure in a state of perpetual longing, with nocturnal excursions into the province of despair.
~ Steve Almond
Buried in this bureaucracy lay the units devoted to secret operations in support of the Taliban, Kashmiri guerrillas, and other violent Islamic radicals—Directorate S, as it was referred to by American intelligence officers and diplomats.
~ Steve Coll
I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day. —Albert Camus
~ Steven D. Price