Secret Quotes

Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.

The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security.

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

The big secret in acting is listening to people.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

The secret to humor is surprise.

I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.

The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple.

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.