Quotes About Secrets

Under every stone lurks a politician.

I chuckled without humor and sat up in the chair. "If I'm not mistaken, you just asked me how much to kill your daughter?

e uns tinham apenas gasto horas, outros a eternidade; e apagava-se o rasto convulso de uma consciência cujo segredo perdêramos havia muito sem disso darmos conta; e tudo era indiferença, talvez recordação da ausência, talvez; de uma maneira ou de outra todos temos cicatrizes: há umas que se não vêem.

In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things, but I knew I mustn't let the adults *know* I knew... it would scare them.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.

I write puzzles and mysteries. Nothing too highfalutin.

I quit college and neglected to tell my dad.

Back when I was young, lists seemed like fences on the open range. But secretly, I was pleased to be corralled among other literary thoroughbreds.

It's part of the magic of 'Game of Thrones,' all the secrets.

Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.

I don't think it's healthy to have secrets; they hang over a family for generations.

I would rather not tell you here things which every German has at heart.

The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.

You never know what goes on behind closed doors.

I don't think secrets are a good thing. I think they are a cancer of the soul. So I decided to come out.

Stone was no admirer of Snowden: he valued certain whistleblowers who selectively leaked secret information in the interest of the public good; but Snowden's wholesale pilfering of so many documents, of such a highly classified nature, struck him as untenable. Maybe Snowden was right and the government was wrong—he didn't know—but he thought no national security apparatus could function if some junior employee decided which secrets to preserve and which to let fly.

at the bottom of every story, there's always something monstrous. Thrashing about in the mud.

I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it means to be human.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

It was odd how old buildings had secret spaces in them that weren't really hidden but were never noticed;

Finite intelligence needs many words in order to express ideas; but God speaks once and for all within Himself—one single Word which reaches the abyss of all things that are known and can be known. In that Word of God are hidden all the treasures of wisdom, all the secrets of sciences, all the designs of the arts, all the knowledge of mankind. But this knowledge, compared to the Word, is only the feeblest broken syllable.

If I was married to a guy like that, chances are good he'd wind up being a suspicious smell in the attic

A secret is something a body tells to one person at a time.

Ogres weren't dangerous only because of their size and their cruelty. They knew your secrets just by looking at you, and they used their knowledge.