Quotes About Secrets

Ja, ich wollte versuchen, dankbar zu sein, aber es geht nicht, Johanna, die Kinder haben mein Leben verdreht, und keiner hat mir gesagt, es würde so kommen, als sei das eines der größten Geheimnisse der Menschheit und niemand dürfte es preisgeben.

Almost all gamesters learn to control their faces ... The Hand blabs secrets shamelessly.

Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage.

But society is always most cruel to those who betray its secretes, showing where it's dishonesty commits a crime against nature.

Las palabras, pronunciadas o tipiadas ya no luchan por consignar el viaje de descubrimiento espiritual. Tal como lo expresó admirablemente Chris Moss (en el Guardian Weekend),[11] por medio de "el chat por Internet, los teléfonos móviles, los mensajes de texto", "la introspección es reemplazada por una interacción frenética y frívola que expone nuestros secretos más profundos al lado de nuestra lista de compras.

The universe was filled with secrets, and he understood now that one of the biggest was that no one needed to know them all.

The fact is that there are many skeletons in the Tower's cupboard.

He knows,I said. I tell him everything Does that go both ways? he asked. Does what go both ways? You said you tell him everything, he replied. You didn't say we tell each other everything

Replete is the world with a spiritual radiance, replete with sublime and marvelous secrets. But a small hand held against the eye hides it all," said the Baal Shem.

It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.

On top of everything else, Boobie's got the clap.

I'd drained our bank account, and there was less than I'd expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept at the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled "DEAD SPIDERS." As if I hadn't always known it was there. As if I wouldn't have wanted to look at dead spiders. I

Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade. A dyer who has found the means of producing a particular colour with materials which cost only half the price of those commonly made use of, may, with good management, enjoy the advantage of his discovery as long as he lives, and even leave it as a legacy to his posterity.

There is a beehive under every pot of honey on the island of Manhattan

Elizabeth chuckled. Sometimes seeing a kid suffer the indignity of having to work gave parents a secret joy.

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hid.

That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and fingertips, he was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I'd always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph's part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.

I used to think death might be hidden somewhere on our bodies. Tucked behind the pupil like a coin, slid beneath the thumb nail, ribbon-wrapped "around a wrist bone. A sharp, dark sliver; a loose, pale pellet. Each person different. Each lifespan set. On the day of your death, it melts out through your entire body, a warm, broken bath bead. Until then, it waits-sealed and silent.

Though we sometimes suspect that people are hiding things from us, it is not until we are in love that we feel an urgency to press our inquiries, and in seeking answers, we are apt to discover the extent to which people disguise and conceal their real lives.

Books should be full of stuff you could never say to people in public.

The beginning of revolutions is psychologically strikingly akin to that of certain relationships: the stress on unity, the sense of omnipotence, the desire to eliminate secrets (with the fear of the opposite soon leading to lover's paranoia and the creation of a secret police).

But perhaps he speaks like this not so much because he wishes to keep secrets as because years of circumnavigating the earth, breathing conditioned air and headlining conferences, have hollowed out his personality. It may have been a decade since he was left alone in a room with nothing to do. I feel my boredom turn to pity for someone who one might otherwise imagine had precious little to be pitied for.

People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and... well, sometimes they can't talk about them.