Secret Quotes
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The fate of the Statute of Uses is one of the most curious in legal history. Its secret and unavowed purpose, of securing the estates of the monasteries for the Crown, it accomplished. Its ostensible purpose, fortified by a wealth of hypocritical justification, it entirely failed to achieve. Not only were devises of lands, after a brief interval, put on a legal footing; but, as is well known, uses of lands as distinguished from legal estates, soon re-appeared in full vigour. Whilst in unforeseen directions, that statute worked havoc in the medieval system of conveyancing; and gradually modernized it out of existence.
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It was completely unshocking that there were monsters in the world, secret rituals and underground burrows filled with the dead, when in my own way, I was secret and sort of monstrous too. It just didn’t show in the same way.
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There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.
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True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.
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That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.
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Let's keep that our little secret, shall we.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears This changeful life has slipped away.
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I stare at the stars... And even though there are so many and they look so close together, I know they are light years apart. The glitter in the sky looks as if I could scoop it all up in my hands and let the stars swirl and touch one another, but they are so distant, so very far apart, that they cannot feel the warmth of each other, even though they are made of burning. This is the secret of the stars, I tell myself. In the end, we are alone. No matter how close you seem, no one else can touch you.
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On my heart in beautiful calligraphy You’ve written words that only You and I can know. Their secret You promised to reveal one day but now I see You were only teasing.
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The secret to enlightenment is to lighten up. Whether you are talking rock or women, all there.
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Love is the secret you unmask yourself to find; it is the foundation of the spiritual life, the destination where all roads of the journey lead.
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I think that the photos that we like were made when the photographer knew how to disappear. If there were a secret, certainly that would be it.
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My secret passion is motorbikes. I want a Kawasaki Ninja.
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What's great is that the picture is already taken before it goes public. It's in secret. The trust that develops from such a habit engenders risk, and you realise you're not as vulnerable as you thought. Once you become comfortable with being more truthful about who you are, the easier it is, the prouder you become. That's the way it unfolded for us.
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It will come down to who hits some shots and rebounds the basketball. I don't think there's any secret to either of us as far as that goes.
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I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well, because otherwise my specter shall come out of him, like black smoke, like a demented giant, and pull him apart nerve by nerve. ... I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.
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It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it's so easy. it's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along.
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I realized that the secret to golf isn't how low you shoot when it's going good, it's how to make your bad rounds better.
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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
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Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?
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The secret to success: Do what you say you're going to do.
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The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.
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The secret to success is to try to never figure that out.
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The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.
