Quotes About Secrecy

They wouldn't be so cocky if they knew what me and the moon have going.

And consummated there a month of quick looks, guarded smiles, accidental brushings of body too open or too secret to be mere accident, and all the other little unfinished vignettes of desire . . . and, perhaps most of all, consummated the shared knowledge of that desire

They wouldn't be so cocky if they knew what me and the moon had going.

The trouble with superheroes is what to do between phone booths.

I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to.

Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.

Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians around the world.

There's no faster way or surer way to consolidate power and disenfranchise critics than to operate in secret. So this plays squarely into the promotion of the unitary executive. That's one factor.

A stupid is one who thinks that those in power today had clandestine means of getting there, yet wants to get there without thinking of the clandestine route they would be taking.

When you lived on the wrong side of the law, information, however vague or apparently meaningless, was everything. It gave you leverage. And leverage was power.

The secret of praying is praying in secret.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

I can't talk about Kathy [Jeung] anymore, because she doesn't want me to talk about her, and I'm not even sure that it's an ongoing relationship.

In any relationship, the woman has control, the clever ones don't let the men know.

The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Come, seeling night,Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day,And with thy bloody and invisible handCancel and tear to pieces that great bondWhich keeps me pale! Light thickens, and the crowMakes wing to the rooky wood.

Constant you are,But yet a woman: and for secrecy,No lady closer; for I well believeThou wilt not utter what thou dost not know;And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate.

I must become a borrower of the nightFor a dark hour or twain.