Secret Quotes - Page 134

That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.

I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.

I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes.

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

We walk among worlds unrealized until we have learned the secret of love.

Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people.

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.

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.

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

Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

And by the Sacred Parchment, I swear that if I reveal the secrets of The Stonecutters, may my stomach become bloated and my head be plucked of all but three hairs

It's like [Donald's Trump] plan to defeat ISIS. He says it's a secret plan, but the only secret is that he has no plan.

Obviously, as secretary of state, I had some of the most important secrets that we possess, such as going after bin Laden. So I am very committed to taking classified information seriously.

My work as secretary of state was not influenced by the outside forces.

And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a contender for the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Front; he has proved himself at Valmy and in a halfdozen actions since. In the National Assembly he was a liberal; now he is a republican. Isn't it then logical that he should be thrown into gaol, July 1, on suspicion of passing military secrets to the enemy?

We incline to think that God cannot explain His own secrets and that He would like a little information upon certain points Himself. We mortals astonish Him as much as He us. But it is this Being of the matter; there lies the knot with which we choke ourselves. As soon as you say Me, a God, a Nature, so soon you jump off from your stool and hang from the beam. Yes, that word is the hangman. Take God out of the dictionary, and you would have Him in the street.

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.

The only secret knowledge we have is know-how and you can't break up know-how by court order.

I came out of an electronic music scene that based all its music on software. It was a real boys thing, a real testosterone thing - software and the relationship between music and the software - to the point where it was like a closely guarded secret.

Keep a secret, it's your slave. Tell it, and it's your master.