Keeping Secrets Quotes - Page 3

• There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.

  Joyce Maynard

  Running, Toxic, Theme

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• All women are natural born espionage agents.

  Eddie Cantor

  Agents, Natural, Born

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.

  Marla Maples

  Losing, Problem, Anonymity

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a lurking fear that some things are not “meant" to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.

  Carl Sagan

  Some Things Are Meant To Be, Known, Lurking

  "Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science".

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• Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

  Gerald Priestland

  Funny, Class, Gutters

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• I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Thinking, Perception, Sitting

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• Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.

  Kate Morton

  Fun, Knowing, Likes

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.

  Lisa See

  Secret, Feels, Who You Are

  Lisa See (2010). “Shanghai Girls”, p.158, A&C Black

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• I'm not so great at keeping secrets; maybe that's why no one ever tells me things.

  Emily Osment

  Secret

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• There is a difference between your parents' not reporting to you everything they do and keeping secrets from you.

  Carolyn Hax

  Differences, Parent, Secret

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I'm good at keeping secrets, but if it's not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I'll tell someone else.

  Steven Yeun

  People, Serious, Ifs

  "Q&A – Steven Yeun (Glenn)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

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• It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.

  Caitlin Moran

  Life, Growing Up, People

  Caitlin Moran (2014). “How to Build a Girl”, p.35, Random House

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• There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

  Daniel Webster

  Suicide, Suicidal, Criminal Mind

  Summation in murder trial of John Francis Knapp, Salem, Mass., 1830

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• God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Boredom, Challenges

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1966). “Conversations and encounters”

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• Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music.

  Tanya Huff

  Secret, Bards, Terrible

  Tanya Huff (2015). “Sing the Four Quarters”, p.36, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• Despite what I said about staying the way we were, I changed. I, who have always believed in speaking my mind and made it my mission to uncover the truth, have found myself keeping secrets. Sometimes life is more complicated than the simple rules we make for it.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Simple, Speaking My Mind, Way

  Elizabeth Chandler (2011). “Dark Secrets 1: Legacy of Lies and Don't Tell”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!

  Michel de Montaigne

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Faces

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling secrets, there can be great danger in keeping secrets.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Mind, Important, Danger

  Live Chat with Ellsberg and Filmmakers, www.pbs.org. October 5, 2010.

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• I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets. I'm one of those people who is like, "Let me tell you what happened today. You're never going to believe it!"

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Liars, Believe, People

  "Jennifer Love Hewitt Talks THE CLIENT LIST, Using Social Media, and Directing the Season Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 4, 2012.

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• But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some practice I had adopted the prevaricator's credo that one doesn't so much fabricate a lie as marry it. A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help. By contrast, my lie needed me as much as I needed it, and so demanded the constancy of wedlock: Till death do us part.

  Lionel Shriver

  Lying, Liars, Successful

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.175, Counterpoint Press

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• The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.

  Alafair Burke

  Lying, Thinking, Crime Novels

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• I am the worst at keeping secrets. I am the kind of person that the second I buy someone a Christmas present, I tell them what I bought them. I don't wait until Christmas. I'm not good at it.

  Jessica Chastain

  Waiting, Kind, Worst

  Source: collider.com

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• I am literally the worst person at keeping secrets. I'd be the worst spy of all time.

  Keri Russell

  Worst Person, Spy, All Time

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What's the best part of being a mathematician? I'm not a religious man, but it's almost like being in touch with God when you're thinking about mathematics. God is keeping secrets from us, and it's fun to try to learn some of the secrets.

  Paul Halmos

  God, Religious, Fun

  Paul Richard Halmos, John Ewing, F.W. Gehring (1991). “PAUL HALMOS Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics: Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics”, p.21, Springer Science & Business Media

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• I heard Tammy say you could be charming. I haven't seen any proof yet." Oh, his cat like that. "I thought I was very charming when I petted you into orgasm." He shot her a look filled with sexual heat. "I plan to do more of that - right after I teach you about keeping secrets.

  Nalini Singh

  Cat, Looks, Heat

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