Quotes About Secrecy

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.

Or as if all the world's diamonds, that the diamond companies hide in order to keep prices up, had been abruptly dumped out and scattered recklessly all over.

Did Danny feel the tentacles tightening? If so, it was not reflected in his research notes. He collected information on vicious killers and power brokers, but gave no clue that he thought they were coming after him.

Shortly thereafter, Casolaro made phone contact with E. Howard Hunt,

Hunt had helped set up the Bay of Pigs, was one of the Watergate "plumbers," and was alleged by one Lee Harvey Oswald familiar to have involved him in a mind-control operation.25

Namebase, author Daniel Brandt

A firm's income statement may be, likened to a bikini-what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.

I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.

In one family, all goes by two and two. If a member of it has any interest, he or she will confide it to some one other; but the rest know nothing. In another family, all feel what touches one; nothing is kept dark from the father and mother, brothers and sisters--all share. This family habit is by far the better, it strengthens the tie between the members, and makes the home one home.

Yo reservaba mi interioridad, mientras él ponía la suya a la vista. Ocultar algo es tener algo que ocultar. Yo no lo tenía, pero ocultaba, asomaba al mundo como quien viene de enterrar un tesoro.

There is one necessary but hidden and strange work—a major work—which you must do in secret, for the sake of the dead.

His lightweight Taurus 738 TCP semiauto in .380 ACP. In an oblong, hard, and hinged box once used for sunglasses was a syringe filled with Rohypnol.

it's just as interesting inside. There are secret stairways, hidden rooms, and a crazy dead-end hallway called Bat's Alley. They're closed to the public, of course, and very few people know about them.

She grunted her assent. He said, sotto voce, "And don't forget you've got a mission tonight." "Which tent is his?" she asked softly. That meant she was still with him, even though she was angry. But she still wouldn't meet his eyes. "The blue and green Mountain Hardwear." "The one with the stain on the side of it?" "That's the one." She nodded that she understood.

This, I thought, was how the real power-play went: conversations in corners and gardens, nods, shrugs, inclinations of the head. But nothing in writing.

diplomacy. A dance of shadows in the darkness.

All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known. And what is known can be outmaneuvered, outguessed. Lifted up, or hunted down.

Smack of conspiracy

Some things are best kept to yourself. Particularly when you're not sure whether or not other people will approve, but you're pretty sure they won't.

And while I want to spare Mia the circus, I don't care if the whole world knows we're together.

Pero esa es la única puerta que necesita permanecer cerrada.

Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.

Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.

I didn't point out that Courtney and I were hardly BFFs. In Mom's world everyone under the age of eighteen was friends with everyone else, like we were all part of some secret society of minors.