Quotes About Secrets

Okay, so divers have mastered a large body of occult knowledge. That explains their general resemblance to hackers, albeit physically fit hackers.

Hiro and Chuck grab the closest thing they can find to a corner table. Hiro buttonholes a waiter and surreptitiously orders a pitcher of Pub Special, mixed half and half with nonalcoholic beer. This way, Chuck ought to remain awake a little longer than he would otherwise. It doesn't take much to make him open up. He's like one of these old guys from a disgraced presidential administration, forced out by scandal, who devotes the rest of his life to finding people who will listen to him.

Every parent of a teenager gets used to it: the moment in a child's life when he or she decides that certain facts are just too much trouble to explain to Mom or Dad. The parents can't, and needn't, know every last little thing.

if the entire world were to become a police state obsessed with recovering old secrets, then vast resources might be thrown at the problem of factoring large composite numbers.

What they conceal tells you more than what they reveal.

It is only a certain type of mind that scorns what is known by all and treats secrets as jewels.

And she knew that this one thing—the urge to boast of one's accomplishments—had betrayed more secrets and destroyed more careers than anything else.

Nell knows what a wall is. It is a knowledge that went into her early, knowledge she doesn't have to think about. Nell is more interested in gates than in walls. Secret hidden gates are particularly interesting.

You see how the words work? They betray your mouth and walk away.

But somewhere, there is a skeleton. And that skeleton has a penis. And it will fuck your life.

They know you and George are coming to get us," her mother said. George doesn't want you to come and live with us. "They think we're rich." I can't get pregnant.

Sometimes people rationalize their behavior. How about the Americans who gave atomic bomb secrets to the Russians? They were people who said they did it out of conviction—so one side wouldn't have all the power.

lies are like cockroaches—if you see one, there are more.

lies are like cockroaches—if you see one, there are others.

They brought with them seventeen American POWs who were secretly imprisoned in Villa Marista for advanced experiments with drugs." It was hard to imagine being taken prisoner in Vietnam, tortured there, then being shipped to Cuba for more of the same.

If Ronnie Clarke knew about Brenda and myself I had probably told him a bit more, but I didn't really care. He was a very old friend now, and there are some things that a friend ought to know.

They're terribly anxious to see him married, and they're always gossiping. And then Mrs. Plowden said, "He might do worse than look in his own kitchen, to my way of thinking." And Annie said, "Aye, that's a fact. It wouldn't be the first time that's happened, and it won't be the last.

Imagination and faith are the secrets of creation.

I learned very quickly that even when I kept no secrets from you, you still didn't want to hear the truth.

I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets.

People will tell you most of the story… and I've learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they're afraid.

I know. You could never hid anything. Your eyes always gave you away. You had the most wonderful eyes I'd ever seen. She lifted her head from his shoulder and looked discretely at him. When she spoke, her voice was barely above a whisper. I think I loved you more that summer than I ever loved anyone.

You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town