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Quotes About Secret

Watch for when he goes," she whispered. "Then come over to my bedroom. I'll be waiting, darling. Run!
~ Gil Brewer
D.H. Lawrence had the impression – that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs, in a kind of rather repugnant artificial triangle, thereby stifling the whole of sexuality as a production of desire so as to recast it along entirely different lines, making of it a 'dirty little secret', a dirty little family secret, a private theater rather than the fantastic factory of nature and production
~ Gilles Deleuze
Et quid amabo nisi quod aenigma est? ("What shall I love if not the enigma?")
~ Giorgio de Chirico
A šta da ljudim, ako ne zagonetku?
~ Giorgio de Chirico
El destino no reina sin la complicidad secreta del instinto y de la voluntad
~ Giovanni Papini
Truth is the most valuable secret.
~ Goa Kerle
May you be in heaven twenty years before the devil knows you're dead!
~ Irish blessing
A lot of vices are secret, but not gluttony — it shows. It certainly shows on me. But I feel that gluttony must be a good deal less deadly than some of the other sins. Because it's affirmative, isn't it? At least it celebrates some of the good things of life. Gluttony may be a sin, but an awful lot of fun goes into committing it. On the other hand, it's wrong for a man to make a mess of himself.
~ Orson Welles, 1967
I had a secret... It was on the tip of my tongue, taking up all the room in my brain, cupped in both my empty hands.
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018
Seek the wise and loving counsel of your Higher Self in the secret chamber of your heart.
~ Marilyn C. Barrick, 1999
To him who hears for the first time this weird song, is told the first and greatest secret of the Northland; to him who has heard it often, it is the solemn knell of lost endeavor. It is the plaint of tortured souls, for in it is invested the heritage of the North, the suffering of countless generations—the warning and the requiem to the world's estrays.
~ Jack London
The secret, so Shimrod knew, was never to accept the fairies' terms, but always to close the deal on one's own stipulations, otherwise the bargain was sure to turn sour.
~ Jack Vance
In the proper sense of the word, religion exists once the secret of the sacred, orgiastic, or demonic mystery has been, if not destroyed, at least integrated, and finally subjected to the sphere of responsibility.
~ Jacques Derrida
tripping over their own piety. In some secret, unlit room in the human soul, they all wanted war.
~ James A. Connor
We told Ellen, "He's a
~ James A. Michener
I discovered not only Hana-ogi's enormous love but I also discovered her land, the tragic , doomed land of Japan, and from it I learned the fundamental secret of her country: too many people.
~ James A. Michener
Mind is the Master power that molds and makes, And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills, Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:— He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking-glass.
~ James Allen
This, then, is the secret of health, -a pure heart and a well-ordered mind ; this is the secret of success, -an unfaltering faith, and a wisely-directed purpose; and to rein in, with unfaltering will, the dark steed of desire, this is the secret of power.
~ James Allen
El alma atrae aquello que secretamente alberga; aquello que ama, y también aquello que teme; alcanza la cúspide de sus más preciadas aspiraciones, cae al nivel de sus más impuros deseos; y las circunstancias son los medios por los que el alma recibe lo que es suyo.
~ James Allen
Mind is the Master-power that moulds and makes. And Man is Mind and evermore he takes The Tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills, Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills :— He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass ; Environment is but his looking-glass.
~ James Allen
And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes. The Tool of thought, and, shaping what he wills, Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills;- He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking-glass.
~ James Allen
something opened in my brain, a secret, noiseless door swung open, frightening me
~ James Baldwin
Indeed, if there is any one "secret" to an enduring great company, it is the ability to manage continuity and change—a discipline that must be consciously practiced, even by the most visionary of companies.
~ James C. Collins
There's always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is a very small bubble, and they both see themselves as secret societies. But I never saw it that way. I always thought music was open to all things.
~ Dawn Richard