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Quotes About Secrets

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.
~ Amy Tan
Qué se hizo de sus recuerdos, de sus secretos? No murió sólo su cuerpo. Un cortejo de luces y sombras, de sonidos, de deseos, de color, de luchas y de recompensas terminaba con él.
~ Ana María Matute
Gracious goodness! Your guardian seems to me to be a thorough scoundrel." "Then you know—" "What?" "Oh! don't ask me to tell you that! — but I would rather die than find myself alone with him again.
~ Anatole France
To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?
~ Anaximenes
Behind each wall are ears listening
~ Ancient Egyptian
What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.
~ Andre Breton
I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.
~ Andre Breton
What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
~ Andre Malraux
Our secrets, odd or not, are the pins that keep our inner life in place: the inform our psyche with meaning.
~ Andrei Codrescu
Aha. The mom doesn't know. She's fishing. This next part has to be just right, or I'm blacklisted by the mother and hated by the daughter. The first would be an inconvenience; the second would be a tragedy.
~ Andrew Clements
My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.
~ Carol Vorderman
I think most people are weirder and more messed up than they would let other people know.
~ Paul Walter Hauser
Of course there is still unexplored terrestrial territory, but most of it is waterlogged. Submersed secret places, such as the Challenger Deep, which today lure hi-tech adventurers like Richard Branson and James Cameron, will undoubtedly provide welcome fodder for 'National Geographic.'
~ Seth Shostak
Intimacy, in my opinion, is when you are vulnerable with someone, you share secrets, are open to love, and you take care of their emotional well-being.
~ Kenya Moore
I prefer to keep my secrets to myself, to the grave... and beyond!
~ Sue Townsend
My mother told me that my birth mother got pregnant by a married man who didn't want to leave his wife.
~ Ellen Ullman
I just thought 'Blue' was a great premise and a great set-up for conflict. I love the idea of exploring a character who's living a secret life and is going to drown in the lies she's telling.
~ Julia Stiles
As far as I know, all the presidents know about Area 51. It would almost be impossible for them not to.
~ Annie Jacobsen
We may like to pretend otherwise, but we all have thoughts we don't want anyone else to know, things we've done that would change the way people feel about us, or parts of our lives that we would rather forget.
~ Fiona Barton
That's one of the great lies of intimacy, to pretend you know everything - you cannot. No matter how close you've been, over however many years, there remain secrets. I think we all know that - that you don't tell everybody everything.
~ Siri Hustvedt
I used to hide behind doors pretending to be a mouse listening to the grown up's conversations. I always wanted to hear them plotting peoples deaths so I could dob them in to the police. unfortunately there were no murderers in my family.
~ Dawn O'Porter
I don't think we ever know 100 percent of a person, even ourselves, but I think in families, you get closer to people's secrets and people's darkness - and their light, the full contrast of a person.
~ Derek Cianfrance
I've dated many women at the same time. But I told them. I didn't keep any secrets from them.
~ Carlos Mencia
If I had any deadly secrets, I wouldn't still be alive.
~ Christopher Lee