Secret Quotes
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What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? Does Love make her voice heard through a committee, does Love employ an almoner to convey her message to her neighbor? ... The real Love knows her neighbor face to face, and laughs with him and weeps with him, and eats and drinks with him, so that at last, when his black day dawns, she may share with him, not what she can spare, but all that she has.
Stella Benson
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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.
Jason Mraz
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Here's an equation I want you to remember for the rest of your life: CZ = WZ. It means your "comfort zone" equals your "wealth zone." By expanding your comfort zone, you will expand the size of your income and wealth zone.
T. Harv Eker
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I had a very intense relationship with my father, who was always extremely interested in what we kids were doing. I actually think the secret of many successful women is having a father who encourages them.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
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Unless you have a feeling for that secret knowledge that modest things can be more beautiful than anything expensive, you will never have style.
Andree Putman
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There's no doubt there are issues with clay. Our issues have issues that are issues right now. That's not a secret.
Andy Roddick
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When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.
Joyce Brothers
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Inventory discipline across the brands coupled with an outstanding holiday performance at Victoria's Secret led to a 36 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings per share at Limited Inc.
Bill Vaughan
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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me.
Oscar Wilde
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The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.
P. D. James
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An invisible man can rule the world. Nobody will see him come, nobody will see him go. He can hear every secret, he can rob, rapeand kill.
R. C. Sherriff
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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
William Lyon Phelps
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With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.
Sara Gruen
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I don't know about you, but where I went to school, Money Management 101 wasn't offered. Instead we learned about the War of 1812, which of course is something I use every single day.
T. Harv Eker
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What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.
Virginia Woolf
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Essentially, if our secrets are secrets because we are told to be ashamed, then we must share them. There is no shame in being sad or struggling or trying to heal. We are all desperate, depraved and sacred. We are all terrible and brillIant. I can list all the things that can make a girl want to escape her own body (re: patriarchy). But I’d rather list all the things that make me want to stay in my body, and adorn it like a home, rub oils into my skin, tell it how sorry I am for trying to leave, for trying to hurt it into submission
Warsan Shire
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"You do not really love me — you love nobody. Is that not true?" "Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love as an art? Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can — that is their secret."
Hermann Hesse
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Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
William Hazlitt
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A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The love of my life came not As love unto others is cast; For mine was a secret wound-- But the wound grew a pearl, at last.
Edith M. Thomas
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
Seneca the Younger
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But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,' said Frodo. Sam looked at him unhappily. 'It all depends on what you want,' put in Merry. 'You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin--to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours--closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Up above Aliens hover Making home movies For the folks back home Of all these weird creatures Who lock up their spirits Drill holes in themselves And live for their secrets.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.
C. S. Lewis