Secret Quotes - Page 56

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

No matter what happens, it will, then, always remain secret: only I know exactly the weight and force of the covenants I have made -- I and the Lord with whom I have made them -- unless I choose to reveal them. If I do not, then they are secret and sacred no matter what others may say or do. Anyone who would reveal these things has not understood them, and therefore that person has not given them away. You cannot reveal what you do not know!

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.

Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.

Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one can begin to grasp the secrets of chess.

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.

The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.

There's a certain secret every actor must have in his work. If you reveal it, you're letting the audience in on the wrinkles and convolutions of your brain. All I want them to do is to see the effect.

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.

I've met some of my best friends in the world working for Victoria's Secret.

Even good girls have secrets, ones even their best friends must guess.

it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.

To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity.

Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment.

You are now, and you do become, what you think about.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Shoot for the secrets, develop for the surprises

We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars, watching Cassiopeia mount her throne and the Great Bear wash its paws in the South. I would say, "I have a secret to tell you." And, folding me in your arms, boyish and sly, you would answer: "Whisper it into my mouth.

I'm so secretive that when someone asks me, Hey, can you keep a secret? I say That's none of your business.

For everyone, well-being is a journey. The secret is committing to that journey and taking those first steps with hope and belief in yourself.

I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in public. Help me, Thou who knowest my frame and pitiest as a father his children.

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.