Quotes About Secrecy

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

In the run-up to the election, Stephen Harper had rolled out the rhetoric on the need for clean and transparent government, expressing frustration with Paul Martin's Liberals over their alleged secrecy and obstructionism. "When a government starts trying to cancel dissent or avoid dissent," Harper declared in a statement to be later viewed as notable for ironic content, "Is frankly when it is rapidly losing its moral authority to govern.

But I remember a scene where someone sneaks out into the woods to meet someone. ... And that's where it came from. Everything else is there to turn it from an image into a story. ... That image was strong enough for me to never give up on it, no matter what my editors and agents thought.

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

We will all satisfy our curiosity when we can, which is any time we think no one will catch us.

If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.

not that anyone was actually keeping one.

Shut away, drugged up, and silenced," Faust said. "I'm sure that's exactly what you'd prefer, because you don't want me, or anyone else, revealing the truth.

There's nothing to recognize about us. We're not on the screen or anything. That's the benefit of hiding behind children or CG actors or other actors--making them do your bidding. You hide in your cave like a creep and pull the puppet strings.

Some folks can't hide things. They don't have enough, not enough money or influence or shame.

this point I could not show myself, of course, or all would

Stolen sweets are always sweeter,Stolen kisses much completer,Stolen looks are nice in chapels,Stolen, stolen, be your apples.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

In this world, everyone wants to know everything about you, and I think that's funny.

said made her even more special. Even so, to avoid any unpleasantness that could develop, friends and family never referred to the adoption, so that in time the fact of it was almost forgotten or never known. But

The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.

Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide.

Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons, but the only way to know this for sure is to follow them at a discreet distance.

In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.

There are two good reasons to put your napkin in your lap. One is that food might spill in your lap, and it is better to stain the napkin than your clothing. The other is that it can serve as a perfect hiding place. Practically nobody is nosey enough to take the napkin off a lap to see what is hidden there.

The trick to following someone without getting caught is to follow somebody who doesn't think they're being followed.

A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and there are times when it seems the entire world is in code. Some believe that the world can be decoded by performing research in a library. Others believe that the world can be decoded by reading a newspaper.

Most field trips contain sinister plots.