Quotes About Secrecy

It was the only time before or since when Americans became emotionally invested in the idea of self-deprivation and frugality. Third graders roamed their neighborhoods in packs, gathering scrap materials, tires, and paper and cooking fat and old sneakers whose soles could be sacrificed for the rubber. The Big Three automakers stopped making cars and started making planes. Factory workers took secrecy oaths. Everybody had a secret now.

The common saying about cryptologists, as William phrased it, was that "it is not necessary" to be insane, "but it helps.

She had conquered at least forty-eight different clandestine radio circuits and three Enigma machines to get these plaintexts. The pages found their way to the navy and to the army. To FBI headquarters in Washington and bureaus around the world. To Britain. There was no mistaking their origin. Each sheet said "CG Decryption" at the bottom, in black ink. These pieces of paper saved lives. They almost certainly stopped coups.

By any measure, Elizebeth was a great heroine of the Second World War. The British knew it. The navy knew it. The FBI knew it. But the American public never did, because Elizebeth wasn't allowed to speak.

As a business owner, you should share everything you know too. This is anathema to most in the business world. Businesses are usually paranoid and secretive. They think they have proprietary this and competitive advantage that. Maybe a rare few do, but most don't. And those that don't should stop acting like those that do.

We haven't done anything," Luke agreed, though he knew that was no guarantee of safety. Plenty of things happened to people who hadn't done anything - things that were never discussed again, or at least not by anyone with any sense.

Biroco cites Trithemius's own statement in the third book of the Steganographia: "This I did that to men of learning and men deeply engaged in the study of magic, it might, by the Grace of God, be in some degree intelligible, while on the other hand, to the thick-skinned turnip-eater it might for all time remain a hidden secret, and be to their dull intellects a sealed book forever."28

Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life. —Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Middleman: "So what's it going to be? Keep the secret or death?" Wendy Watson: "What do you think?" The Middleman: "Ma'am specificity is the soul of all good communication.

Casi todo el mundo se avergüenza de su juventud, no es muy cierto que se añore como se dice, más bien se relega o rehúye y con facilidad o esfuerzo se confina el origen a la esfera de los malos sueños, o de las novelas, o de lo que no ha existido. La juventud se oculta, la juventud es secreta para quienes ya no nos conocen jóvenes.

The ones who most shape the world are those who are not exposed, who can't be seen; unknown, opaque beings about whom almost no one knows anything. Like the hidden man in the story, except that instead of living a passive vegetable existence, they plot and weave webs in the shadows.

Elég az, ha nem akarják, hogy halljunk valamit, és mi mindent elkövetünk, hogy megtudjunk valamit, az meg sem fordul a fejünkben, hogy olykor a mi érdekünkben nem avatnak be, nehogy csalódjunk, vagy belekeveredjünk valamibe, hogy ne lássuk olyan sötétnek a világot, mint amilyen.

Basta saber que alguém não quer que oiçamos para fazermos tudo para ouvir, sem nos darmos conta de que às vezes as coisas nos são escondidas para nosso bem, para não nos decepcionarem ou para não nos comprometerem, para que a vida não nos pareça tão má como costuma ser.

no me hubieras dicho nada, si me hubieras mantenido en el engaño. Cuando se lleva uno a cabo, hay que sostenerlo hasta el final.

e assumir uma enorme responsabilidade, a de revelar a alguém o que talvez não quisesse saber, e nunca se sabe o que alguém não quer saber até se lhe fazer a revelação, e então o possível mal não tem remédio e é tarde para a retirar, para voltar atrás.

Contármelo a mí es lo más parecido a no contárselo a nadie.

Berta Isla es la envolvente y apasionante historia de una espera y de una evolución, la de su protagonista. También de la fragilidad y la tenacidad de una relación amorosa condenada al secreto y a la ocultación, al fingimiento y a la conjetura, y en última instancia al resentimiento mezclado con la lealtad.

lo largo de mi vida no me he encontrado con mujer alguna que conservara el sostén entre sábanas.

He walked slowly up and down the rows, glancing at titles and authors, hoping to find something useful. He was so intent in his search that he failed to notice the dark, hooded figure that entered the archives and stood silently in the doorway, watching him

The theory for admitting accomplice testimony that is uncorroborated is that conspiracy is by its nature secretive and that only the parties to it can know it occurred. But in practice this means the accomplice's guilt is modified to the degree that he can convict the defendant.

Branwell told a cruel lie in silence.

how a force of six or eight fight­ing men could have done so un­ob­served is be­yond me. We shall soon know, how­ev­er, for here comes the roy­al psy­chol­ogist.

I at once ordered a secret search within the city, for every Martian noble maintains a secret service of his own.

This new approach, it seemed, was not to be made so publicly, not to be exposed to the expedient treason of little devious minds far removed from the battlefields on which honest men met, and contended, and killed one another without malice.