Quotes About Secrets

She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to see it. Have you ever been in a Police Court? Have you ever watched tradesmen behind their counters? My soul, the secrets walking in the streets! You jostle them at every corner. There's a Polonius in every first-class railway carriage, and as many Juliets as there are boarding-schools. ... How inexhaustibly rich everything is, if you only stick to life.

Wohin gehen wir denn?" "In den Keller." "schloss Schattenhall hat einen Keller?" "Natürlich", sagte Homunkoloss. "Jedes unheimliche Schloss hat einen Keller" (S. 402)

A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen-and-a-half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest. A bear must have his secrets, after all; they make him seem attractive and mysterious.

Knowledge is night!

That's how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were, many and most of them, locked on the other side a closed door that he's lost the key for. So his memory became like secrets held away from his own mind. But these secrets were noisy things; they babbled and muttered behind the door, and so if he listened closely he might catch a snatch of something he once knew well.

Sara bit her lip, drawing blood, as she reflected on the many times she'd questioned Mama about her biological father. Who was he, where did he live, and how come Mama refused to talk about

He knew next to nothing about her and yet he knew something she did not. They both had a secret they were determined to keep hidden from the world. They both wore a mask to hide the unspeakable. He understood her in ways she could begin to imagine.

There is a certain timelessness to closets.

Do you have some big secret life I don't know about?' Connor jokes. 'Who would be calling you at midnight?' 'I have no idea,' I reply. 'But I'm pretty sure I only have one secret life.

People are crazy, he says. Havent you figured that out? No one is what they seem. And the older we get, the better we hide.

If Steve didn't have a job, where did he go every day after he put on his suit and strolled out the door with his briefcase? More important, why hadn't he told her?

Ho sempre associato il calore del suo corpo attraverso la camicia da notte al segreto della perfetta torta di zucchero di Barnet.

Arthur, sie ziehen die Grenzen zu eng. Ich verrate Ihnen ein Geheimnis, ein sehr großes und streng gehütetes Geheimnis, von dem alle wissen, außer Ihnen. Das hier ist ein Traum. Ich meine das nicht philosophisch, Gott bewahre! Es ist wirklich einer. Und zwar Ihrer. Wir alle gehören dazu, jeder von uns ist Ihre Erfindung. Wenn Sie aufwachen, sind wir weg, nichts mehr, gelöscht, es hat uns nie gegeben.

Don't be discouraged by negative thoughts that may arise unbidden in your mind. You may feel like you should not say or do things that do not feel true in your heart, but such thoughts are destructive and violate biblical secrets of ancient Jewish wisdom.

Chinul, the twelfth-century Korean Ch'an master, expresses this freedom magnificently in his treatise Secrets of Cultivating the Mind:

In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

BLOOD NEVER SLEEPS.

Daniel Silva

I suppose it's true what they say. The spouse is always the last to know.

Daniel Silva

The Dar al-Jawasis. The House of Spies.