Quotes About Secrecy

From that point on, I guess I sort of realized that my imagination, which made life tolerable, needed to be kept a secret from the rest of the world.

And even then, sixteen years old, I knew that I would hate every person in my life who loved me, who took care of me, who helped me find a way to whatever life I would have, because I could never tell them who I was, what I'd done.

My imagination, which made life tolerable, needed to be kept a secret from the rest of the world. But if you keep something hidden away, all tied up, it's hard to summon it when you really need it.

To read all these stories and more, you will have to wait till I am dead and a suicidal publisher decides to print them.

Nobody in Pixie Hollow has seen her.

They had no churches, but used the mountainous areas of this locality, meeting in mountain valleys, lonely places etc, meeting together at night rather than in the day. They had no pastors, but many believers organized themselves and produced their own leaders. They had no Bibles, but they recited them from memory, using hand-written copies and mimeographed sheets to meet their needs. Although some secret meetings were discovered, local Christian activities continued uninterrupted.

To render the kings and higher nobility still more exclusive, they had a court language which was understood only by themselves, and which was changed in part from time to time as its expressions found interpretation beyond the royal circle. Some portions of this court language have been preserved.

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

Kat was my best friend and my family for ten whole years, but I don't think I ever spoke her name in front of my parents. She belonged to my world, not theirs. She was none of Grant and Irene's business.

You know how to tail people?" I asked. My mother shrugged and kept her mouth shut, but her devilish smile said everything.

Sei por experiência que se deve evitar descobrir quem deseja manter-se escondido.

D'habitude les femmes tzignes ne sont pas musiciennes, mais la fille de Kosta, Tinka, faisait exception. Elle avait pratiqué secrètement le violon, et à l'âge de dix ans elle surprit toute la tribu d'un exploit qu'ils n'oublieraient jamais.

It's how fucked-up families communicate. Instead of talking to each other directly, everything goes through a third party. If one person controls all the information, they can lie or pit people against each other.

How do you know I didn't bring you out here to dispose of you in private?

We can't have all these people seeing that thing on your wrist, can we?

And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it's a slippery slope. I always say to myself I'm never going to give anything away because there's never any point or benefit for me.

I wouldn't tell you anything about anybody I cared about because it becomes entertainment for other people, and it sort of just cheapens everything in your life. I would never tell you if I was dating anybody.

As soon as man was capable of conceiving of the idea of sin, he had recourse to psychic concealment.

The partisan is still the one who refuses to carry weapons openly, who fights from ambush, and who uses the enemy's uniform, as well as true or false insignias and every type of civilian clothing as camouflage. Secrecy and darkness are his strongest weapons...

Ma cosa importava se non era autorizzato? Le faceva benissimo: ma doveva agire di nascosto, perché l'Italia è il paese dei diplomi, delle lauree, della cultura ridotta soltanto al procacciamento e alla spasmodica difesa dell'impiego.

lema epicúreo: láthe biósas, «oculta tu vivir» o «vive sin ser notado».

Besides, as Mark Twain once said, "Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Thin veneers can cover a mountain of problems around here when nobody's looking at the details.

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