Quotes About Secrecy

Far less well known is that more than ten thousand women traveled to Washington, D.C., to lend their minds and their hard-won educations to the war effort. The recruitment of these American women—and the fact that women were behind some of the most significant individual code-breaking triumphs of the war—was one of the best-kept secrets of the conflict. The military and strategic importance of their work was enormous.

During World War II, code breaking would come into its own as one of the most fruitful forms of intelligence that exists.

Trust is important to any relationship… and easier to come by if you get a picture of a guy's wife buck naked.

Es cualquier libro discreto (que si cansa, de hablar deja) un amigo que aconseja y que reprende en secreto.

Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show it can bear discussion and publicity.

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

An execution carried out in secrecy is no better than lynching from a dry branch.

She hesitated. "You weren't one of those commandos who killed Nazis with their bare hands, were you?" "I wore gloves.

People don't hire lawyers like Klister when they have nothing to hide. This woman's fee would send average folk into bankruptcy, or at the least force a second mortgage

Oh, good," he muttered. "We're going to discuss it now." "No discussion," she said. Her mind was quite clear now, as though a fire had blazed through it, burning away all confusion. "It's perfectly simple. No One Must Ever Know." He came up onto one elbow and looked at her. "Do you know," he said, "I can hear those five words in italics. Capitalized.

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

Spencer talked to Trace." Aha! "That--" "And Trace told Dare. But no one told me because you swore everyone to secrecy, and I have to tell you, that annoys the hell out of me." -Jackson and Arizona

Dating was so much easier when we were younger because we all spoke the same cryptic code and understood the rules of engagement. "Shelly, ask Suzie to ask Mary to ask Mike to ask Billy if he likes me. But tell her not to let him know that I like him. Well OK, she can tell Billy that I like him, but not that I like him, like him."

Hey," Shayne said through the door. "You going to stay in there all night, because we're getting tired of trying to eavesdrop from out here. Can't hear a damn thing.

If you're going to ask me if the muffins are low fat, you should know I'm running out of places to hide all the dead bodies.

The sign on the front door explaining what kind of meeting: NA-NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS Someone had attached a sticky note that said: EMPHASIS ON THE A, PEOPLE! Ty didn't know wheather to be amused that only in Lucky Harbor would the extra note be necessary, or appalled that the town was trusted with the anonymous at all.

Any time I'm not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it's because I'm up to something.

No story that juicy was going to stay secret for long.

Bob," I asked. "What is all my stuff doing here?" "Oh," Bob said. "That. Well. Bianca got the idea, somewhere, that your stuff might explode if anyone messed around with it." I heard the wryness in my voice, though I didn't feel it. "She did, did she." "I can't imagine how." "I'm doubling your pay.

Paranoia—because why should the conspiracy theorists get to have all the fun?

The real war happened when you weren't looking.

Who were those guys?" "I can't tell you that," I said. There was an empty second, and then Billy's voice turned cautious. "Why? Is it some kind of secret, need-to-know wizard thing?" "No. I just have no freaking clue who it was.

and scanned the darkness, but saw nothing. "Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated," I said.