Secret Quotes - Page 26

• Before I even put pen to paper, in any sense, I'm like, "What's the coolest MacGuffin you can come up with? What are the last frames of this series?" The secret that's behind this entire thing is to be as evocative, original, thought-provoking and timely.

  Paul Scheuring

  Thought Provoking, Original Thought, Paper

  Source: collider.com

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• My dad was a bedwetter; I think his dad was a bedwetter. I like to talk about it because it's something that I thought would be my deepest, darkest secret my whole life, and then you become an adult, and it's not.

  Sarah Silverman

  Dad, Thinking, Adults

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The most important thing is contribution because the secret to living is giving. If you catch on to that you start realizing that there's nothing you can get that comes close to what you can give. Life is calling all of us to be more than just about ourselves and that is when we get that spiritual hit.

  Tony Robbins

  Spiritual, Giving, Important

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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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

  Keeping Secrets, Waiting, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that 'stand for' things they see in the world around them... Children are happy with symbolic drawing until about the age of eight or nine... when children develop a passion for realism. Our schools do not provide drawing instruction. Children try on their own to discover the secrets of realistic drawing, but nearly always fail and, sadly, give up on trying.

  Betty Edwards

  Children, Giving Up, Passion

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• The secret of a long marriage is shaving your legs every day . . . because it shows you still care.

  Gloria Estefan

  Long, Shaving, Legs

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• Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.

  William James

  Failure, Men, World

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.129, Library of America

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• Daughters of the attitude that produced them, certain women will not appeal to us without the double bed in which we find peace by their side, while others, to be caressed with a more secret intention, require leaves blown by the wind, water rippling in the dark, things as light and fleeting as they are.

  Marcel Proust

  Daughter, Attitude, Women

  Marcel Proust (2003). “In Search of Lost Time Volume III The Guermantes Way”, Modern Library

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• Secrets are very intriguing - I always think thats an interesting theme.

  Sara Shepard

  Thinking, Interesting, Intriguing

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• Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Nature, Age, Earth

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• Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Delight, Pure

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1988). “Bulletin Du Centre International D'éducation Sri Aurobindo”

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• Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Order, Law, Age

  Kenneth Rexroth (1968). “Classics Revisited”, p.132, New Directions Publishing

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• I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.

  Anne Lamott

  Trying, Giants, Pandas

  Anne Lamott (1980). “Hard Laughter: 2”, Viking Adult

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• Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah

  Leonard Cohen

  Kings, Fall, Baffled

  Song: Hallelujah

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• I believe in one secret and ineffable Lord; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name Chaos, the sole viceregent of the Sun upon the Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breathes. And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name Babalon.

  Aleister Crowley

  Mother, Stars, Father

  "Liber XV, The Gnostic Mass". Book by Aleister Crowley, www.scarletwoman.org. 1913.

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• When you learn to make everybody happy, you will possess the golden secret of how to milk the contented voters. But do it in such a way that they won't think you want them to vote for you just because you need the money. They need the money, and besides, they can think up other reasons if they try.

  Gracie Allen

  Thinking, Trying, Want

  "How to Become President". Book by Gracie Allen, 1940.

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• Seek one woman whom thou canst trust, and to her who lovest thee best, tell thy secrets. She will deliver thee from the hands of strange women, she will expose their craft; and of her who flattereth thee, will she make known the reason.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Hands, Crafts

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• Enough, I shall be understood in ten years by people who will be doing what you do today. Then my geysers will be known, my ice floes will be seen, the secret of adulterating my poisons will have been learned, the games of my soul will be revealed.

  Antonin Artaud

  Years, Ice, Games

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.86, Univ of California Press

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• Christ is known only by them that receive Him into their love, their faith, their deep want; known only as He is enshrined within, felt as a Divine force, breathed in the inspirations of the secret life.

  Horace Bushnell

  Inspiration, Want, Christ

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• But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?

  Anthony Trollope

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.1345, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: Masonry and Communism... we have to extirpate these two evils from our land.

  Francisco Franco

  Two, Land, Evil

  "Masonry and Communism" by Jakin Boor (the alias of Francisco Franco) in the journal "Arriba" (December 14, 1946); later quoted in Juan Pablo Fusi Aizpurua "Franco: A Biography" (p. 71), 1985.

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• On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal.

  Derek Jarman

  Sight, Target, World

  "At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament". Book by Derek Jarman, 1992.

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• I have some state secrets I will take with me to paradise.

  Giulio Andreotti

  Paradise, States

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• My goal--and this is kind of my own little secret--but when I get married, just to head out and finish football and, and, and be a missionary around the world. Places where Steve Young--not that it's big really that many places--but places where they have no idea about football.

  Steve Young

  Football, Ideas, Goal

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• In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, man's dispute with madness was dramatic debate in which he confronted the secret powers of the world; the experience of madness was clouded by images of the Fall and the Will of God, of the Beast and the Metamorphosis, and of all the marvelous secrets of Knowledge

  Michel Foucault

  Fall, Men, Age

  Michel Foucault (2013). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.12, Vintage

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