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Quotes About Secrets

Hablan con sombras en la lengua.
~ Jean M. Auel
I needed words because unhappy families are conspiracies of silence.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Like my grandmother he kept secrets the way other people kept fish. They were a hobby, a fascination, his underwater collection of the rare and the strange. Occasionally something would float up to the surface, unexpected, unexplained
~ Jeanette Winterson
There is talk in the village that there is more in these sewers than sewerage. Yes, I say, Yes. But not only these sewers. There is more in your heart than can be spoken. More in your eyes than you will tell. More in the mind of you than anyone can know. More in the night than darkness. More in the river than can be dredged. What more ? The hate, envy, malice, greed, stupidity and evil that lie under the floor of everything. If I have secrets so do you.
~ Jeanette Winterson
U]nhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven. He or she has to learn to forgive him or herself.
~ Jeanette Winterson
In Venice, a long time ago, when we had our own calendar and stayed aloof from the world, we began the days at night. What use was the sun to us when our trade and our secrets and our diplomacy depended on darkness? In the dark you are in disguise and this is the city of disguises.
~ Jeanette Winterson
There is talk in the village that there is more in these sewers than sewage. Yes, I say, Yes. But not only these sewers. There is more in your heart than can be spoken. More in your eyes than you will tell. More in the mind of you than anyone can know. More in the night than darkness. More in the river than can be dredged. [...] If I have secrets so do you.
~ Jeanette Winterson
If there is such a thing as spiritual adultery, my mother was a whore.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Avem nevoie de cuvinte pentru c? familiile nefericite sunt ni?te conspira?ii ale t?cerii. Cel care rupe t?cerea nu este iertat niciodat?.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Like my grandmother he kept secrets the way other people keep fish. They were a hobby, a fascination, his underwater collection of the rare and the strange. Occasionally something would float up to the surface, unexpected, unexplained.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Necesitaba palabras porque las familias infelices son un pacto de silencio. Quien rompa el silencio jamás será perdonado.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Le chiesi perchè non voleva libri in casa e lei rispose: Il guaio di un libro è che scopri cosa contiene solo quando è troppo tardi. Io pensai: Troppo tardi per cosa? Cominciai a leggere di nascosto [...] ogni volta che aprivo le pagine di un libro mi chiedevo se questa volta sarebbe stato troppo tardi: avrei dovuto un sorso fatale che mi avrebbe trasformato per sempre.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.
~ Jeannette Walls
No one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.
~ Jeannette Walls
I want no secrets or soul-states, nothing ineffable; I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.
~ Joyce Maynard
There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.
~ Robin Sloan
My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.
~ Albert Einstein
The world is full of people who want their ears tickled on strategies for wealth creation and protection and so-called revealed secrets to wealth creation. And there are plenty of slick 'business coaches' who are more than willing to do just that - for a fee. This is the world of the seminar guru.
~ Dan Pena
Strengthening our national network of Community Health Centers - one of the best kept secrets in medicine - can help counter America's growing access problem.
~ Danny K. Davis
There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
~ J. H. Wyman
If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.
~ John Churton Collins
All families have lies and secrets, I don't mind sharing ours.
~ Shakin' Stevens