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Quotes About Secret

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.
~ Thucydides
squeezes, their secret I love you code.
~ Tia Williams
If you knew what I wanted to do," he said, "you'd call security.
~ Tia Williams
Most of those who tell you they were in the resistance are fabulists at best. The worst are simply liars. It was a frighteningly small movement, covert, secret, and the price of discovery was monstrous. After the war, everyone wanted to believe that they had supported it. It is a collective French national fantasy.
~ Tilar J. Mazzeo
It's no secret that me and New York got history. It's no secret. This is no secret. It's already known.
~ Paul Pierce
The No. 8 position is my favourite position. That's no secret.
~ Mario Gotze
I love women, I always liked women - no secret about that.
~ Demis Roussos
Is there a secret to bowling at the Waca? In a way the secret is that there is no secret. Like any ground in the world, it's all about feel.
~ Glenn McGrath
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
~ Francis Bacon
I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny... I forgive him everything.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
He was drinking and contemplating his fear. It seemed to him that he had been afraid all his life, but in recent years, or so it seemed, he had learned how to take a step into his fear, how to take the action which frightened him most (and so could free him the most). He did not do it always, who could? but he had come to think that the secret to growth was to be brave a little more than one was cowardly, simple as that, indeed
~ Norman Mailer
Just a corner, just an instant, just a poem away lay an unimaginably rich world where gods walked alongside the chosen few; and if you ever won your way there, your reward was meaning conferred upon your daily labors and travails by the promise of immortality, by the clarity of secret luminescence.
~ Olga Grushin
The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.
~ Oprah Winfrey
In order to find meaning and readerly pleasure in the universe the writer reveals to us, we feel we must search for the novel's secret center, and we therefore try to embed every detail of the novel in our memory, as if learning each leaf of a tree by heart.
~ Orhan Pamuk
this, then, is how we first came across the fearsome secret history of turkey's mannequins.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Now suddenly he had intimations of destiny; he could see that life had a secret geometry on which his rational mind had no purchase. But even as he was overcome with a desire to subdue his reason and find happiness, he also sensed that - for the moment at least - his yearning for happiness was not yet strong enough.
~ Orhan Pamuk
It could be true that there was another realm hidden within this one and that he might be able to walk and ponder his way into it if he allowed his secret other self to emerge.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Ender had never spoken of that to anyone, not even to Mother, but had kept it as a memory of holiness, of how his mother loved him when she thought that no one, not even he, could see or hear. That was what Alai had given him: a gift so sacred that even Ender could not be allowed to understand what it meant.
~ Orson Scott Card
The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
~ Oscar Wilde
I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
~ Oscar Wilde
You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing. You lost life's secret.
~ Oscar Wilde
He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world's heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world's pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of the claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transiencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He said that the world was sentient to its core and secret and black beyond men's imagining and that its nature did not reside in what could be seen or not seen.
~ Cormac McCarthy