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Quotes About Secrecy

because no one knew that she had only a few days ago refused a man whom she perhaps loved, and refused him because she trusted another.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?
~ Leon Wieseltier
you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent
~ Leonard Cohen
I'll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving 'cross the borders Of My Secret Life.
~ Leonard Cohen
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
~ Leonard Cohen
Non passarono molti anni che sua madre cominciò a esercitare gli inalienabili diritti della menopausa. Si mise a indossare in casa a qualsiasi ora una pelliccia e gli occhiali da sole. Prima vi alluse soltanto e poi affermò esplicitamente di aver sacrificato una carriera come pianista concertista. Quando le veniva chiesto per il bene di chi, lei si rifiutava di rispondere e abbassava il termostato.
~ Leonard Cohen
The secret of praying is praying in secret.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
A corrupção é um fenômeno secreto, e as evidências sobre ela são indiretas. A maior parte dos índices que medem a corrupção é baseada na percepção sobre sua existência, que é tanto maior quanto mais a corrupção é combatida.
~ Leonardo Avritzer
Dear Commendatory Roomers, you have no idea how many people-serious, decently behaved, cultivated people- go looking for the company of whores
~ Leonardo Sciascia
His mother might claim to be a loyal light in the shadows, but he was determined to shove her even further into the shadows.
~ Leonie Frieda
Others manipulate through pouting, giving others the silent treatment, being secretive or stubborn, conniving behind others' backs, or being intimidating. Whatever the means, their behavior indicates that they place no value on open, straightforward communication; their only concern is that they get their way.
~ Les Carter
He's very private now," commented Brian. "He communicates by emails when there's a business discussion, but that's it.
~ Lesley-Ann Jones
Whirling darkness has come back on itself. It keeps all its witchery to itself.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
The creepy stuff was that I have had sex with women who worked for me on this show. Now, my response to that is yes I have. I have had sex with women who worked on this show. Would it be embarrassing if it were made public? Perhaps it would, especially for the women.
~ letterman david
Now all of us can talk to the NSA -- just by dialing any number.
~ letterman david iv
By the standards of magical society they'd fallen at the first hurdle: they hadn't had the basic good sense to keep their shit to themselves.
~ Lev Grossman
Alone in his room, he smiled at his secret greatness.
~ Lev Grossman
More lies. But what could you do? That's how you roll when you're a teenage magician!
~ Lev Grossman
That's how you roll when you're a secret teenage magician
~ Lev Grossman
Over the meeting of the lovers I draw a veil. The burst of rapture with which they clasped each other in a wild embrace -- the many inquiries -- the fond regrets and thrilling hopes -- it is out of my power to convey. Let me, therefore, leave them to their happiness.
~ lewes george henry iii
The great secret of centralized power was secrecy itself. That holds of all totalitarian states down to our own day.
~ Lewis Mumford
I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
~ Johnny Carson
When Shanthi Ranganathan was the featured turn on 'Hip Hop Saved My Life With Romesh Ranganathan,' we learned she didn't allow him to have a girlfriend until he'd finished university, and she learned - to her unfeigned horror - that he used to sneak girls into the house when she was out.
~ David Hepworth
I was able to hide a lot behind 'Walton,' and found that to be quite useful.
~ Emma Walton Hamilton