Quotes About Secrecy

What we can do in Singapore may not be doable elsewhere. Some things you know you need: you want efficient government, you want clean government, you want to do away with corruption, you must educate your people. You want to get housing and so on. All these are not such secrets, not so special to Singapore.

I like to keep some things secret. Otherwise, there's no mystique about you.

Once, I used to have the local reporter on the team bus and I'd tell him everything, so when he wrote about the club he was informed, even if he couldn't print some things. Those days are long gone.

For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

Hiding things is the most foolish thing that annihilates correlation.

We are all just illusions of what we want the world to believe about us, no one even begins to assume what lurks below my surface, not even my best friends. ~Callum~

Sometimes you have to lie. Sometimes it's the only way to protect the ones you love.

lies can run but they can't hide

Never was I supposed to hear the words 'He says he wants to see you.' But now that I have, there's no way to refuse.

...intimacy isn't something men talk about. They may talk about politics, literature, stocks, or sports, depending on the man, but about their love lives they keep silent, even to their dying breath.

Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.

No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.

Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it.

I can never 'un-love' you, Marcus. You are mine, all of you. Your faults are now my own, and all of your secrets are now mine to keep.

And if her heart was breaking with every step she took, at least he would never know.

He was probably the only number one son in Kahana putting up such a fight, but you couldn't tell because every family was a walled city, and you never knew unless you were inside. And if you were on the inside, you never talked stink about the family, but kept up the family's face.

Quan a algú li agrada molt una cosa és molt difícil que la mantingui en secret, oi?, ha dit.

A la hija pequeña de Salome, Miep, la violentaron los hombres entre dos y tres veces distintas, pero Peters ha prohibido que la niña, que tiene tres años, reciba tratamiento médico, alegando que el médico difundiría rumores sobre la colonia y la gente sabría lo de las agresiones y convertirían todo el incidente en un escándalo.

That was the end of his driving.. That was the end of his walking free.. That was the end of his privacy.. And that was the end of his secret.

Phil pursed his lips over his fangs. Are you in league with Public Works, do you have any history with zoëtism, fortune telling, or anyone in coterie society? -Does a fing look swart to the zooloofills? Phil stared at her blankly. I have no idea-- -Exactly, she interrupted. 'I don't know what you're talking about either.

Everyone was horrified at the thought of someone seeing them on the can, and yet almost no one got any thrill looking at that.

Basta così. Non tutti sono al corrente di ciò che è accaduto, – la fermò egli, e la Prima Signora che era al suo fianco intervenne: – Non è il caso di preoccuparsi, e comunque ho tanto sonno che non avrei sentito nulla, – disse, coprendosi le orecchie con le maniche.

However, as soon as Mrs. Hogg stepped into her room she disappeared, she simply disappeared. She had no private life whatsoever. God knows where she went in her privacy.