Quotes About Secrecy

Realizing that the dream had been sent to him for a purpose, Adin worked in secert over many months to create a likeness of the belt he had been shown.Then he traveled around the kingdom to persuade each tribe to allow its talisman to be added to it.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

By using these informal informers, the MI have become incredibly effective, he said. The reason the system works so well is very simple: it is hard to tell who is an informer and who is not. The

The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.

En este negocio no sólo vendemos información y espacios publicitarios: por encima de todo vendemos silencio.

Como de costumbre, las declaraciones de los políticos eran irrelevantes: lo que de verdad importaba eran los detalles ocultos tras bambalinas, los papelillos reveladores que dejaban a la vista por descuido.

I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.

Foaly: Anyone see you come in here? Holly: The FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, MI6. Oh, and the EIB. Foaly: The EIB? Holly: (smirking) Everyone in the building.

I can't imagine what they're planning. But I can tell you two things. We won't like it, and it won't be legal.

É impossível para a pessoa que viola em segredo qualquer artigo do pacto social se sentir segura de que ficará impune, mesmo que já tenha escapado dez mil vezes; pois até o fim de sua vida nunca tem certeza de que não será descoberta.

The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.

A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what?

When some downtime is allowed, it loses the fascination associated with rule-breaking and secrecy. It gains respect and is thus often shown respect by those who take advantage of it.

Conspiracies existed, to be sure; many of them, and many were dark indeed. But fiendish? Fiendishness required brains. Nine times out of ten, conspirators behaved like buffoons and wound up exposing themselves out of sheer, bumbling incompetence.

Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know.

a full moon is a flashlight so everyone can see your drama!

I've got a little secret for you. The only time you're safe?really safe?is when you're dead.

Jason Bourne was the name of someone in American military intelligence—a traitor who was shot dead for his crime. When the present Bourne was recruited into Treadstone he was given the name of the dead man.

Lives begun in deception are always lived in shadow." (Stated by Yellowfang, page 3)

Because I'm a Thunderclan cat like you," she replied, ad darker shadow in the darkness of the tunnel. "My name is Hollyleaf

Lucky's gut churned with dread. I couldn't have told them anything about Lick, about her secret meeting with Grunt. Alpha would have thrown her out—or killed her. I just hope I made the right decision.

Before what?" Quiet Rain cut her off. Her old ears were as sharp as Thunder's. "Who's out there, planning my death?

Just what I'd expect from ThunderClan. Thinking they should keep this secret to themselves—that they're the only Clan that matters!