Quotes About Secrecy

The wood was silent, still and secret in the evening drizzle of rain, full of the mystery of eggs and half-open buds, half unsheathed flowers. In the dimness of it all trees glistened naked and dark as if they had unclothed themselves, and the green things on earth seemed to hum with greenness.

They looked at each other and laughed, then looked away, filled with darkness and secrecy. Then they kissed and remembered the magnificence of the night. It was so magnificent, such an inheritance of a universe of dark reality, that they were afraid to seem to remember. They hid away the remembrance and the knowledge.

there is no pornography without a secrecy.

Yet he was tense, feeling that he and the elderly, estranged woman were conferring together like traitors, like enemies within the camp of the other people.

He knew his heart's core was a fat, awful worm. His dread was lest anyone else should know. His anguish of hate was against anyone who knew, and recoiled.

He had not the faintest knowledge what it really was, but he would never have sunk so low as to confess that to his womenfolk. They listened and believed him. He believed himself.

He could only say the one thing he was afraid to say: Will you hide in my house, master?

The two circled around the back of the house, making sure that nobody saw them. Once inside, they found Patrick right where they had left him, sitting in front of Mark's computer. The only difference was that he was surrounded by bags of Doritos and cans of Mountain Dew. He looked up at them with wild eyes. You okay? Courtney asked. I'm fantastic! Patrick exclaimed. This sugary drink is incredible! Swell, Courtney remarked sarcastically. He's wired on Dew.

The Peacock Tattoo Emporium's waiting area was a row of kitchen chairs, standing ashtrays, dirty magazines. You could pick the tattoo you wanted from a fat loose-leaf with plastic-covered sample illustrations. "They're both crazy," I told Roberta, looking out the plate glass to make sure my grandmother couldn't see me. "Ma and Grandma. They're just crazy in different ways.

All the dead bolts and pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to us, our intimate friends, those who have been most devotedly ready to receive our confession.

In times of terror, when everyone is something of a conspirator, everyone will be in a situation where he has to play detective.

Occasionally Leonardo appended a moral lesson to the entry, such as this: "The oyster, when the moon is full, opens itself wide, and when the crab looks in he throws in a stone or seaweed and the oyster cannot close again, whereby it serves for food to that crab. This is what happens to him who opens his mouth to tell his secret. He becomes the prey of the treacherous hearer.

He lies not because it's in his interest, he lies because it's in his nature." It was in Jobs's nature to mislead or be secretive when he felt it was warranted.

His persistence baffled me. He was known to guard his privacy, and I had no reason to believe he'd ever read any of my books.

she said. He had called me right before he was going to be operated on for cancer, and he was still keeping it a secret, she explained. I decided

Almost nobody knew, she said. He had called me right before he was going to be operated on for cancer, and he was still keeping it a secret, she explained.

No one would ever see them, but the members of the team knew that their signatures were inside, just as they knew that the circuit board was laid out as elegantly as possible.

nobody knew, she said. He had called me right before he was going to be operated on for

It was in Jobs's nature to mislead or be secretive when he felt it was warranted. But he also indulged in being brutally honest at times, telling the truths that most of us sugarcoat or suppress. Both the dissembling and the truth-telling were simply different aspects of his Nietzschean attitude that ordinary rules didn't apply to him.

press or to Congressional committees. Thus the only way secrecy can be kept is to exclude from the making of the decision all those who

Durante los primeros años después de Pearl Harbor, los Laboratorios Bell se hicieron cargo de casi mil proyectos distintos para el ejército, desde equipos de radio para tanques hasta sistemas de comunicaciones para pilotos que llevaban máscaras de oxígeno, pasando por máquinas de cifrado para codificar mensajes secretos.

Her name was Alana Ash, and she was everything a happily married man could want in a prostitute.

Where do you have her?" "You know that private cemetery in Hicksville?" "Yeah." "Show up at the gate after the sun rises and I'll buzz you in.