Quotes About Secrecy

If you knew how hard I found it to stay on my side of the hall last night after we finished watching the movie…" He shook his head. "Your parents absolutely wouldn't approve of the direction that my thoughts are going.

I can't tell him anything personal or important. I especially can't tell him anything like 'I think your roommate is God's gift to girls.' He'd make my life impossible.

Isn't that what intimacy so often is? Supposing you understand, conveying that you do, because you feel in theory that you could understand, and you want to, and yet secretly you don't?

What had actually been in Valera's haversack: not a woman's vulva but grenades, a gas mask, a gun that constantly jammed.

He has lived cloaked so long, he did not know how to reveal his heart.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Hari Singh Nalwa received four wounds: two from sabres, one from an arrow (which Nalwa pulled out himself), and the fourth from a gunshot. Before dying, he instructed his men not to give out word of his condition.

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

in a surveillance state it was vital to reserve the ability to turn a blind eye to certain people at certain times.

In a secret barracks on the outskirts of Shanghai, three dozen identically faced men moaned uneasily in their sleep, tossed and turned from side to side. They dreamt of violence. They dreamt of fire. They dreamt of death. They woke in a ripple of consciousness. Their mother had died. Their mother was in danger. They rose as one, checked their weapons, checked their bodies. Somewhat calmed by this, they returned to their bunks and eventually to sleep. Their mother might need them soon.

Safe in thy breast close lock up thy intents, For he that knows thy purpose best prevents.

I stepped out into the night air that nobody had yet found out how to option. But a lot of people were probably trying. They'd get around to it.

It's always been a thing. Like, I don't touch my belly button. That's something nobody knows about me.

By the time I went to college, I had totally embraced my Indianness, but I still didn't tell anyone I could sing.

You want me to become a leaker? I'm not. I do not leak any news from the Cabinet sessions.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

There's a cardinal rule that you don't talk about sharks. If you don't see it, it's not there.

I have a cat and a dog. They don't really get along, but I think they get along when no one is looking.

My husband has said even he doesn't know my politics. In the nonromantic-compliment category, that's a good one.

I was bad, but I was one of the kids that never got caught. If anyone ever knew I did something, it was because I told them. 'Cause I'm a really good liar, so I end up snitching on myself.

Most celebrities are not going to admit they had work done.

You don't talk about celebrities in the Hamptons, duh!

In 'Big Brother,' it's hard to really trust anybody because 99 per cent of the time, that person is going behind your back.

There are certain things I just don't talk about - there are certain things that are private.