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Quotes About Secret

Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
~ James Joyce
Every word of it was for him. Against his sin, foul and secret, the whole wrath of God was aimed. The preacher's knife had probed deeply into his diseased conscience and he felt now that his soul was festering in sin.
~ James Joyce
Rumor has it that Palpatine has some secret project in the works.
~ James Luceno
He admits it! And who better than a human to wear the mask of power while an immortal Sith Lord rules in secret!
~ James Luceno
It was called Operation Coitus Interruptus, which only goes to prove that there are some people in the FBI with a sense of humor.
~ James Patterson
Next, I went out to the garage and snuck a can of Zoom out of Bear's not-as-much-of-a-secret-as-he-thinks-it-is stash. He keeps cases and cases of it out there, just for himself, but he never notices if a few are missing.
~ James Patterson
Perhaps I've found the secret for an unhappy private life. Every three years, I go and marry a girl who doesn't love me, and then she proceeds to take all my money.
~ Glen Campbell
Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences. New Yorkers will remember well the end result of clandestine U.S. support for Islamic militants against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the 1980s: 9/11.
~ Nick Turse
All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
~ Barry Unsworth
Congress has the responsibility to ensure that any international trade agreement entered into by the United States must serve the national interest, not merely the interests of those crafting the proposal in secret.
~ Jeff Sessions
The Gospel of Thomas claims to be the secret sayings of Jesus. There are 114 of them, so it says many things, but the central message is that Jesus is the one who reveals the divine light that brought the universe into being, and that you and I also reveal that light.
~ Elaine Pagels
In my sophomore year, a kid told me that the secret to getting women is to play really, really hard to get. I followed his advice, and I didn't have so much as a date that year.
~ Greg Kinnear
Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Only the ones whose hearts have been conquered by LOVE know the secret language of the eyes. Leave trails of love today, perhaps others might be brave enough to follow
~ Val Uchendu
I had this almost secret life of going to 'Star Wars' conventions because,' when I was younger, Star Wars' had phased into the uncool part of its life and had yet to become cool again for everybody else.
~ Alexandra Bracken
We possess ideas, but we are possessed by feelings. They lie too deep for understanding, astir with their own secret life and carrying us with them.
~ Thomas Flanagan
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
~ Thomas Jefferson
There is some secret stirring in the world, A thought that seeks impatiently its word.
~ Thomas Lovell Beddoes
It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.
~ Thomas McGuane
Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
~ Thomas Moore
Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo.
~ Thomas Moore
for though it be a maxim in the schools that there is no Love of a thing unknown, yet I have found that things unknown have a secret influence on the soul,
~ Thomas Traherne
It is an old saying that "Order is Heaven's First Law," and like many other old sayings it contains a much deeper philosophy than appears immediately on the surface. Getting things into a better order is the great secret of progress, and we are now able to fly through the air, not because
~ Thomas Troward
A good Christian holds secret communication with heaven. Private prayer keeps up the trade of godliness. When private holiness is laid aside, a stab is given to the heart of piety.
~ Thomas Watson