Secret Quotes

• The dirty little secret of what used to be known as Wall Street securities firms-Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, and Bear Stearns-was that every one of them funded their business in this way to varying degress, and every one of them was always just twenty-four hours away from a funding crisis. The key to day-to-day survival was the skill with which Wall Street executives managed their firms' ongoing reputation in the marketplace.

  

  William D. Cohan
  • Brother
  • Wall
  • Survival

• I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.

  

  Celine Dion
  • Life
  • Children
  • Discover

• Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

  

  William Goldman
  • Heart
  • Wall
  • Princess

• I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Dark

• TV has changed so much, from the fact that there are so many channels available now to spoilers. There were no blogs when I was on Buffy. There were no weekly magazines, aside from People. Now, to be able keep your secrets for your show is so hard.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • People
  • Changed
  • Able

• The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • World
  • House
  • Beautiful

• The secret of my success over the 400m is that I run the first 200m as fast as I can. Then, for the second 200m, with God's help I run faster.

  

  Eric Liddell
  • Success
  • Secret
  • God's Help

• The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.

  

  Regina Brett
  • Focus
  • Step
  • Parenting

• There is no geometry here; or rather there is a secret, infinitely non-Eucledian and subtle geometry, a secret harmony that the mind seizes before the intelligence.

  

  Alan Macfarlane
  • Secret
  • Harmony
  • Geometry

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

  

  Norman Thomas
  • Life
  • Secret
  • Values

• Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Work
  • Done
  • Happiness

• The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

  

  Herodotus
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Secret

• ..... if we were talking to you on your first day of physical life experience, we would say to you, "Welcome to Planet Earth. There is nothing that you cannot be, or do, or have. You are a magnificent creator. And you are here by your powerful and deliberate wanting to be here. Go forth, giving thought to what you are wanting, attracting life experience to help you decide what you want and once you have decided, giving thought only unto that"

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Experience
  • Earth
  • Powerful

• The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake.

  

  Rhonda Byrne
  • Universe
  • Answers
  • Attraction

• Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.

  

  Fausto Cercignani
  • Freedom
  • Secret
  • Leave

• A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between.

  

  Karen White
  • People
  • Society
  • Secret

• You will never break up my home. I know that’s been your object for years and the aim of all your secret maneuvers. I love my children as no man ever loved his before. I know men love their children, but mine are bound up in me, part of me.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Children
  • Love
  • Loved

• Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Spiritual
  • Decay
  • Chamber

• They, the women, were like the gargoyles, Mattie thought. Respected in words, but hidden from view of those who ran the city and managing to live in the darkness, in the secret interstices of life.

  

  Ekaterina Sedia
  • Words
  • Darkness
  • Respected

• I don't know if there's any secret recipe. Just a lot of hard work. Pay attention to your constituents. I always had a great Iowa staff that did all my great constituent service work. And I found that people would forgive me for a lot of my "liberal sins" because I paid attention to the home front.

  

  Tom Harkin
  • People
  • Home
  • Attention

• The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Secret
  • Blame
  • Shame

• The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Writing
  • Attention
  • Reader

• Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets -- 'piccoli segreti' -- that are simmering on the burners.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Secret
  • Cooking

• Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Difficult
  • Known
  • Difficulty

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