Secret Quotes - Page 10

• Those secrets are things that most people don't learn, because they are not enthusiastic enough, or bright enough, or patient enough, or funny enough; or still enough.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, People, Patient

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• Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads.

  Joan Lindsay

  Hate, War, Dark

  Joan Lindsay (1977). “Picnic at Hanging Rock”, Viking Pr

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• I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth; and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, "So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Believe, People, Joy

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1850). “Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People”, p.9

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• There is a secret, I think. When you are front of a camera there is something that happens. Some relationship, some movement, some strange kind of suspension. That's where you find the layer in yourself that is duplicated in everyone. And when you get it right, if you can imagine all the hearts beating in one beat, it's like that. It's beautiful.

  Juliette Binoche

  Beautiful, Heart, Thinking

  "Juliette Binoche: 'Depardieu wanted to kill me. But I am still here'" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2015.

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• Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy invasion—the only way this country is ever going to surrender its liberty to a foreign power is if it keeps electing corrupt officials who auction it away to multinational corporations and overseas government interests in exactly the fashion that southern star chambers have been doing to their own people throughout their entire dyspeptic history.

  Chuck Thompson

  Country, Fashion, Stars

  Chuck Thompson (2013). “Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.

  Lauren Graham

  Father, Thinking, Keys

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• I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if its worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way.

  Theophilus London

  Documentaries, Way, Reviews

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• Secrets have a way of eating away at us from the inside

  Justin Somper

  Way, Eating

  Justin Somper (2010). “Vampirates: Tide of Terror”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Dennis McCurdy's Find A Way is a straightforward compilation of suggestions that will simplify your life and set you on the path toward success. The book has the feel of a friendly neighbor sharing the secrets that enabled him to win in life. This is an easy read that pays big dividends. I enjoyed it and highly recommend Find A Way to anyone seeking motivation.

  Tolly Burkan

  Motivation, Book, Winning

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• We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.

  Elie Wiesel

  Immortality, Stills, Knows

  "Heart to Heart with Elie Wiesel". Interview with Nadine Epstein, www.momentmag.com. June 20, 2013.

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• None of us lie or guard our secrets when we sing, and India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn't enough.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Song, Lying, First Love

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.389, Macmillan

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• Belly strippers! The use of this device is one of the most highly prized - and highly priced - secrets of fast-money winners.

  John Scarne

  Use, Winner, Belly

  John Scarne (1990). “Scarne on Cards”, Signet

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• If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.

  Alan Kay

  World, Java, Sun

  "Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk - and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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• Some men promise to keep your secret and yet reveal it without knowing they are doing so; they do not wag their lips, and yet they are understood; it is read on their brow and in their eyes; it is seen through their breast; they are transparent.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Eye, Men, Knowing

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• Happiest time of youth and life, when love is first spoken and returned; when the dearest eyes are daily shining welcome, and the fondest lips never tire of whispering their sweet secrets; when the parting look that accompanies "Good night!" gives delightful warning of tomorrow.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Good Night, Sweet

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The Virginians : a tale of the last century ; vol. II”, p.195

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• If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.

  Horace

  Virtue, Pleasure, Ifs

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.364, Delphi Classics

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• O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts In stupid folks, and teaches unknown arts. What tongue hangs fire when quickened by the bowl? What wretch so poor but wine expands his soul?

  Horace

  Art, Stupid, Wine

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.362, Delphi Classics

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• My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Prayer, Debt, Shame

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.20, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• There cannot be a secret Christian. Grace is like ointment hid in the hand; it betrayeth itself. If you truly feel the sweetness of the cross of Christ, you will be constrained to confess Christ before men.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Christian, Men, Hands

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.155, 1895.

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• For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ's body in the heavenly light.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Light, Desire, Looks

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2004). “Hopkins: The Mystic Poets”, p.22, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex; for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Girl, Sex, Women

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• There is no religion without mysteries. God Himself is the great secret of Nature.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Mystery

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 421, 1895.

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• Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate; mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Real, Men, Alliances

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.944, Library of America

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• However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.

  Henri Bergson

  Laughter, Real, Kind

  Henri Bergson (2013). “Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• Bernstein has been disclosing musical secrets that have been well known for over 400 years.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Years, Musical, Well Known

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