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Quotes About Secret

He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He though 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
And she said that since this was so nor could it be altered one was better to follow one's heart in joy and in misery than simply to seek comfort for there was none. To seek it was only to welcome in the misery and to know little else. She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought 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
Fox could've kissed him on the mouth just to taste the smile on his lips. Forbidden. She'd almost forgotten.
~ Cornelia Funke
Hat meine Schwester dir gesagt, dass jeder Mensch, der meinen Namen ausspricht, des Todes ist?
~ Cornelia Funke
I'd rather be a criminal underground than a secret police.
~ Cory Doctorow
The Bohemian Grove has held secret meetings for the global elite since 1873 in a redwood forest of northern California. In addition to Republican presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush, members have included James Baker, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, David Rockefeller, William Casey, and Henry Kissinger. Each year, the members don red, black, and silver robes and conduct a ritual in which they worship a giant stone owl.
~ Craig Unger
He felt again irresistibly drawn to her. He felt there was a secret bond, a secret thread between him and her, something very exclusive, which shut out everybody else and made him and her possess each other in secret.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Shame, what was it? It was part of extreme delight. It was that part of delight of which man is usually afraid. Why afraid? The secret, shameful things are most terribly beautiful.
~ D.H. Lawrence
The language of nature is comparable to a secret password that each sentry passes to the next in his own language, but the meaning of the password is the sentry's language itself.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
landed after fleeing the Turks in Armenia, and they moved to the Mission District of San Francisco when she was a child. She had a secret that she rarely mentioned to anyone: She had been married before, but her husband had been killed in the war. So when she met Paul Jobs
~ Walter Isaacson
Ah, that picture, it will always haunt me," he says, then pauses and smiles his impish grin. "But she never figured out it was a helix."1
~ Walter Isaacson
Nature hides her secret because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
~ Walter Isaacson
That inner ecstasy of the mind is the secret fountain of perpetual youth and strength in any man. He who finds it finds onmipotence and onmiscience.
~ Walter Russell
the seat of the Celtic Muse is in the mist of the secret and solitary hill, and her voice in the murmur of the mountain stream.
~ Walter Scott
HERE LIES THE MYSTERY PISSER P.I.P.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven years without cease on a problem that has eluded the greatest mathematical minds since first proposed in 1637.
~ Charles Krauthammer
Dear Valentine, I love you. Whoever you are.
~ Charles M. Schulz
These are valentines for all the boys at school that I like... And this is a very special one for my sweet babboo." "Does your sweet babboo know who he is?" "Oh, yes, he knows who he is..." "I do not!
~ Charles M. Schulz
That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....
~ Charles Schultz
many admire, but don't show
~ charles tiffany
It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.
~ Charlotte
Why X?" Libby asked. "Because X is the most mysterious letter," May told her. "And things with X's in them are pretty cool.
~ Cherie Priest
It seemed like such a small thing and such a tremendous thing at once, like a secret I'd always tell myself, though I didn't know the meaning of it just yet.
~ Cheryl Strayed