Secret Quotes

I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.

The secret of art is love.

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.

While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places, the obscure barbecue joints, burger places. There are a few spots in L.A. that I'm obsessed with - one of them is the Taco Zone taco truck on Alvarado. There are secret off-menu items that are amazing.

The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

My secret passion is motorbikes. I want a Kawasaki Ninja.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.

A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.