Secret Quotes - Page 22

• Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

  Horace

  Passion, Wine, Affair

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• The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.

  Bill Vaughan

  Wise, Character, Men

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• In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It's bizarre.

  David Wenham

  Honesty, Self, America

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

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• With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.

  Alan Cumming

  Ideas, People, Wandering Around

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• I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and thats really motivating.

  Katie Couric

  Fun, Having Fun, Badgers

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• I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.

  Jim Rash

  Smart, People, Stealing

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• The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Sound, Driving, Pupils

  The Scouter Magazine, January 1912.

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• All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Children, Lying, Men

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.130, Wordsworth Editions

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• People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.

  J. C. Ryle

  Fall, Long, People

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• The secret studies of an author are the sunken piers upon which is to rest the bridge of his fame, spanning the dark waters of oblivion. They are out of sight, but without them no superstructure can stand secure.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dark, Sight, Bridges

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Hyperion”, p.185, Jazzybee Verlag

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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

  Holiday, Discipline, Inventory

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• He that tells a secret is anothers servant.
  [He that tells a secret is another's servant.]

  George Herbert

  Servant

  George Herbert, William Jerdan (1853). “The Works of the Rev. George Hebert”, p.383

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• My best beauty secret is simple: Have the right palette and the right colors and remember, you need so much less makeup than you think.

  Jessalyn Gilsig

  Makeup, Simple, Thinking

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• Because I've been around forever and ever, like wallpaper, people ask me for secrets... it's the same with my skin care range; that's out of necessity. As soon as I saw the first signs, I bought everything in the market.

  Lulu

  People, Forever, Skins

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• The secret to keeping moving is keeping moving.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Moving

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• [On speaking of family secrets:] I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.

  Barbara Neely

  Family, Air, Heal

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• How dare you, unless you can hold up your own life as a model of rectitude, achievement, and halcyon happiness, open your mouth about the stubborn secrets of living?

  Celestine Sibley

  Achievement, Advice, Stubborn

  Celestine Sibley (1975). “Day by Day with Celestine Sibley”, Doubleday Books

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• The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper and situation. There are few observers who possess a clear and comprehensive view of the revolutions of society, and who are capable of discovering the nice and secret springs of action which impel, in the same uniform direction, the bland and capricious passions of a multitude of individuals.

  Edward Gibbon

  Spring, Nice, Passion

  Edward Gibbon (1828). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.501

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• The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of collective wisdom.

  Carol Bly

  People, Forever, Literature

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• I have a friend who loves housework. Honest, she loves all housework. All day long she moves from one chore to the next, smiling the whole time. I went over there one day and begged her to tell me her secret. It's simple, she said, right after breakfast you light up a joint.

  Gabrielle Burton

  Moving, Simple, Light

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• A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

  Benton MacKaye

  Nature, Escaping, Effort

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• I always have a contract with a character. Even when he's unappealing. The contract is to give him his due. To tell his story. And to keep his secrets.

  Stephen Lang

  Character, Giving, Stories

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• Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy, and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place; there are ideas worth dying for, and circumstances where courage is still prized.

  Annie Dillard

  Ideas, Joy, Dying

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.174, Canongate Books

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• People might gain insight the longer they live, but things never get easy. There will always be challenges and miscommunications and the temptation to eat greasy, bowel clogging fried food, and take others for granted. The secret is to keep moving and try to see people yo love for what they are: flawed, beautiful and as confused as you.

  Rob Payne

  Beautiful, Confused, Moving

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.

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• Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret technique, codified or not, and we discover that no one can become a virtuoso on the spur of the moment in this orchestra of 'noisemakers.

  Wanda Landowska

  Music, Law, Games

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