Secret Quotes

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

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.

I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.

The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don't think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly.

I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Men who have reached and passed 45, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.

Republicans regard Dean as one of their best secret weapons, I have yet to find a Democrat who, in private chatter, doesn't think he's a problem for them.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul.

That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.

The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.

Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means.

I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor.

You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept a secret by women in one very remote county in China for a thousand years. It's the only language that was invented and used by women to have been found anywhere in the world.

It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.

I think especially with the Internet and the amount of reality shows that are going on, there's no way to keep a secret anymore, so I try to let my project be as much as reality show as I can allow it to be.