Quotes About Secrecy

The regular campaign staff, including the regular campaign manager, had no idea that the shadow staff existed.

They were the rumors that might follow any rich man who stayed to himself, Virgil thought, and who at the same time was thoroughly hated.

asked the local media not to mention it, but

there, looking for a man they wouldn't find. They'd go because they'd know for sure that Horn couldn't be in Goodhue County, where he'd be known and chased on sight. . . . Horn had suggested another step: killing a woman from the Alexandria area, still farther

So I've decided," Taryn said. "Do it, but be clever about it. Don't give yourself away. Call from a cold phone.

When you control communication, you can hide anything you want.

When things are hidden, there will always be people who object, and who will then go out of their way to preserve and store what is being hidden, so that someone can find it later, either intentionally or by simply stumbling over it. This is why I never tried to hide alternative takes of history. It makes them more attractive to future historians when you do. I smothered them under strata of official history instead." "Never hide, just overwhelm," Cardenia joked.

It's not like the countess doesn't already know we're fucking." Fundapellonan blinked at this. "What?" "I assumed she told you I like to fuck around, so you should get with me to see if I would say anything useful while we banged." "Is that what you really think is going on here?" Fundapellonan asked. "Isn't it?" "Well, yes," Fundapellonan admitted. "But you're not supposed to think it.

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.

If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.

It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was truth that might be shattered by division.

When people are engaged in something they are not proud of, they do not welcome witnesses. In fact, they come to believe the witness causes the trouble.

But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or with secrecy. And once a boy has suffered rejection, he will find rejection even where it does not exist—or, worse, will draw it forth from people simply by expecting it.

And the books that came into the house, some of them secretly—well, Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with the book all over his face and hands. Violence

They's scandalous things goes on in this here camp,'' she said darkly. "Ever' Sat'dy night they's dancin', an' not only squar' dancin', neither. They's some does clutch-an'-hug dancin'! I seen 'em.

And as a few strokes on the nose will make a puppy head shy, so a few rebuffs will make a boy shy all over. But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or with secrecy. And once a boy has suffered rejection, he will find rejection even where it does not exist--or, worse, will draw it forth from people simply by expecting it.

Cathy had the one quality required of a great and successful criminal: she trusted no one, confided in no one. Her self was an island.

Like many youngsters they formed their own secret societies. The 'Potato Society

You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

I have always kept my personal relationships pretty private, whether it's intimate or my family or friends - at least in videos. It's always been something that I've sworn off from sharing online.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so but behind locked doors there are usually high emotions running.