Secret Quotes - Page 2

What is the use of the colon? What is a colon? Generally it opens onto an explanation, but it is always done with the help of an interruption. It can be said that the colon is not the period, it is the period of the period, the canceling of the period. It is a moment mute and marked; it is the most delicate tattoo of the text. It is also in place of, instead of, everything that would be causal. For example, when we read: "It's simply that: secret." "Secret," is a sentence, it is the shortest sentence perhaps. But it is a sentence in one word. It is a sentence that is secret and that at the same time says its name. One could invert and say: "Secret: it is simply that." This is secret, the secret is the secret of this, it is a word which makes infinite sense all by itself, it is a sentence which performs the secret itself [Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life, trans Elizabeth Lowe & Earl Fitz, Foreword by Hélène Cixous trans Verena Conley, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989]

Hélène Cixous

Dear Anonymous, I've got a secret I know you can keep it because you don't really exist....This is what shapes you, this is what makes you as authentic as you are fake.

Kristen Henderson

It was the only lie she ever told. She did not do it to protect Francisco; she did it because she felt, for some reason which she could not define, that the incident was a secret too precious to share.

Ayn Rand

I'd never forget how it felt to say those words. To be in our place. In love with you, in love with us, in love with our secret, with the island we were building, keeping out the whole wide world.

Pip wondered what the secret was of being different in a way that attracted people, as opposed to her own way.

Jonathan Franzen

Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor.

Most of my life has been spent keeping information close, turning it over and over in my mind. The impulse to share anything is a new one, the impulse to hide as natural as breathing.

The secret to happiness is a good sense of humor with adult content.

We've talked, and alot has been said ,but no words were uttered at all

Secret of success is something that will outlast in the life of human being.

That is her secret. A poor and precious secret that not even the executioners, the decrees, the occupying authorities, the Depot, the barracks, the camps, History, time-everything that defiles and destroys you-have been able to take away from her.

Patrick Modiano

Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it.

Everyone has secret.Like the oyster with its grain of sand, we bury it deep within, coating it with opalescent layers, as if that could heal our mortal wound. Some of us devote our entire lives to keeping our secret hidden, safe from those who might pry it from us, hoarding it like the pearl, only to discover that it escapes us when we least expect it. revealed by a flash of fear in our eyes when caught unawares, by a sudden pain, a rage or hatred, or an all-consuming shame.

... secrecy adds a charm to an amour ...

Frederick Marryat

God always rewards openly what was done in the secret.

Some things were secret even after you told them.

James S.A. Corey

In good time every secret must be shared and every miracle called into question.

Let living and love, be one.

Love is the key, love is the secret.

Osho

The smell of jasmine makes people tell their secrets

Biological harm from electromagnetic interference (EMI) is the dirty secret of the electrical, electronics and wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation industries.

Look what we, the humans, the humanity!???What we are doing in "The Purge", it's shown.

Well, it's not easy to find something that you do not know exists.

Patricia Nedelea

I kept my expectations low, which is one of the secrets of life.

I know that you always take around because you talk so much, but I like to always know what's happening in your world.

Anna Bell

It’s like my whole life my left ring finger has been lacking something, and finally it feels complete.

Anna Bell

She begins, “What is the question we spend our entire lives asking?” and answers, “Our question is this: Are we loved? I don’t mean by one another.” She closes her sermon to the snakes with these words: “I am like you, curious and small. Like you, I pause alertly and open my senses to try to read the air, the clouds, the sun’s slant, the little movements of the animals, all in the hope I will learn the secret of whether I am loved.

... it is easier to tell someone closer to you before you tell your partner.

Anna Bell

The fact that I am marrying the man of my dreams is all that matters.

Anna Bell

Instead I’ve built a house made of lies that have come crashing down around me.

Anna Bell

The secret is to keep yourself interesting.

Brownell Landrum

But there was something in his eyes at times that I would almost swear said something more. Some deeper sort of regard.

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

Orson Scott Card

You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

Terence McKenna

Mutually assured destruction.

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Everything is complicated if no one explains it to you.

Fredrik Backman

We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

Smartass Disciple: Master, how do you heal the broken heart?Master of Stupidity: It isn’t a disease need to be healed. It’s life.

Toba Beta

Dealing with one who feels smarter than you,let him assume that you ain't smarter than him.

Toba Beta

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks.Life itself had become a secret affair.

Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.

Louisa May Alcott

How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?

Someone owns trillions and keeps simple. I would.Someone reads all minds and looks average. I would.Someone knows the future and doesn't tell. I would.

Toba Beta

It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.

Tracy Chevalier

This is what’s happening: together we are descending the stairs of the heart, which lead to the sources. (It is a secret staircase. I knew it existed. Which is why I avoided it. Because it leads to the other-life, deep, underground, the fluvial, the painful.)We are in the process of descending into the depths of the heart. To where bodies communicate with each other.

Hélène Cixous

There is a common language, a mode of consciousness, almost a secret sign which can be read and recognized by all who are similarly engaged. Such realizations help fend off the feeling of isolation which can dog the steps of those who seek the Grail.

Sarah Lynn strides out of the stairwell. Lawrence watches her go. The door slushes shut behind her, and he turns to me with a tightened jaw. I want to tell him: No, no, you've got it all wrong. I don't care if you kiss a white girl. I don't care if you love a white girl. I just wish you'd chosen a white girl worthy of your love.Lawrence's Adam's apple jerks up and down, and I realize that in addition to whatever else he's feeling, he's scared. He's in love with the darling of the school, Sarah Lynn Lancaster, ad he's afriad I'll expose his secret. I give a tiny shake of my head, wanting him to know he has nothing to fear, not from me.

No man can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips.

The secret is that there is no secret.

Our analyses of the FDA data showed relatively little difference between the effects of antidepressants and the effects of placebos. Indeed, the effects were so small that they did not qualify as clinically significant. The drug companies knew how small the effect of their medications were compared to placebos, and so did the FDA and other regulatory agencies. The companies found various ways to make the data seem more favorable to their products, and the FDA helped them keep their negative data secret. In fact, in some instances, the FDA urged the companies to keep negative data hidden, even when the companies wanted to reveal them. My colleagues and I hadn't really discovered anything new. We had merely revealed their 'dirty little secret'.

dark say:berthenia bellenever forgetthe tongue hid name

Cathleen Margaret

there's a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get outbut I'm too clever, I only let him outat night sometimeswhen everybody's asleep.I say, I know that you're there,so don't besad.then I put him back,but he's singing a littlein there, I haven't quite let himdieand we sleep together likethatwith oursecret pactand it's nice enough tomake a manweep, but I don'tweep, doyou?

Charles Bukowski

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

Brandon Sanderson

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But remember what I said about forgetting what I said?

Pseudonymous Bosch

I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.

I survived by keeping my emotions in check – by maintaining my composure and tucking it all away. I managed to stay under the radar, skating through school without anyone truly remembering I was here. My teachers acknowledged my academic successes and my coaches depended upon my athletic abilities, but I wasn’t important enough to make a recognizable social contribution. I was easily forgettable. That’s what I counted on.

Rebecca Donovan

To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.

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