Quotes About Secrecy

I love all of the government conspiracy stuff. I love all of the shady backroom White House dealings that are going on, and all of the politics involved. That kind of stuff is just fascinating to me.

His life was a mystery to her, fabulously rich when he chose to embellish it, but otherwise a blank.

For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere).

As a student, frustrated by the limitations of conventional mathematics, he invented an entirely new form, the calculus, but then told no-one about it for twenty-seven years5.

We don't know if he ever left England. We don't know who his principal companions were or how he amused himself. His sexuality is an irreconcilable mystery. On only a handful of days in his life can we say with absolute certainty where he was.

In his secretiveness he didn't merely resemble Newton, but actively exceeded him.

I look at Danny and Carolyn, the only other people in the room. It's time for me to go, alone and off the record. For years I've been constantly going, but never alone and never off the record. The Secret Service takes every step with me, and at least one aide is almost always there, even when I'm on vacation. A record is kept of where I am every hour.

Obama is not a secret Kenyon, or a secret Muslim, he's a secret Republican.

New Rule: You don't need a paper shredder. I've seen your mail--it's not that interesting. What are you worried about, that the magazine from the auto club might fall into the wrong hands? I hate to break it to you 007, but the Victoria's Secret catalog isn't actually a secret.

New Rule: The White House doesn't have to release the dead Bin Laden photos, but don't pretend we can't take it. We've seen pictures of Britney Spears's vagina getting out of a car. Television has desensitizes us to violence, and porn has desensitized us to people getting shot in the eye.

Perguntava-me por que motivo me contara o segredo, mesmo estando embriagado. Esse motivo seria rapidamente esclarecido. Para salvar a minha vida, apresentara-me como seu assistente na empresa. Caso contrário, como protestante, não poderia esperar mais do que um auto-de-fé. A minha segurança dependia da minha concordância e eu precisava de saber da conspiração, para o caso de ser interrogado sobre ela.

People pay more attention when they think you're up to something.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

Noble deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?

After a while you learn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

He's lying." No one seemed surprised at Scout's announcement about Foreman. "He's a spook," Nada said. "They lie every time they open their mouths, even if it's just to breathe.

Not a title, because how do you give a title to someone who ran an organization that no one was supposed to talk about?

The Cellar had been founded by Presidential Decree in order to legally do the illegal.

That's your business and your past," Kane said. "A person's past is their own to share or not share.

Even though the CIA had acknowledged the place existed (it was on Google Earth now for frak's sake), that didn't mean they were holding an open house any time soon.

He had seen the Ka'ab, the heart of Islam, which none outside the faith were to see and be allowed to live.