A Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.

Jean de la Bruyere

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Jean de la Bruyere
French - Philosopher
1645 - 1696

When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.

Jean de la Bruyere

Those who blamed aggression formed Amity.’… ‘Those who blamed ignorance became the Erudite.’… ‘Those who blamed duplicity created Candor.’… ‘Those who blamed selfishness made Abnegation.’… ‘And those who blamed cowardice were the Dauntless.

Veronica Roth

A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.

Josh Billings

The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on complexity; all Internet standards become festooned with complicating option sets that no one person can know in their entirety. The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on insufficient investment; safety review for open source code is rarely funded, nor sustainable when it is. The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on poor planning; wide deployment within critical functions but without any repair regime.

Dan Geer

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

Moses Mendelssohn

If the means to which the government of the union may resort for executing the power confided to it, are unlimited, it may easily select such as will impair or destroy the powers confided to the state governments.

John Taylor

My kids are around pit bulls every day. In the ’70s they blamed Dobermans, in the ’80s they blamed German Shepherds, in the ’90s they blamed the Rottweiler. Now they blame the Pit Bull.

Cesar Millan

Those who speak much are blamed, those who speak little are blamed. In this world there are none who are not blamed. Try not to blame.

Gautama Buddha

Every secret we confide in another person can be a burden to them

Henning Mankell

As individual people, embedded in our daily lives, of course we're interested in what makes one person different from another. We've got to hire one person and not another, marry one person and not another.

Steven Pinker

Secret guilt is by silence revealed.

John Dryden

I think the beauty of the film industry is that if another person tries to become another person or act like another person or imitate another person, they don't really get too far. When that person starts to realize who they are and what they can bring to the table, they start to blossom and grow. With that, it's not so much me looking towards my predecessors who have paved the way in the industry - it's more getting inspired. I get little bits and pieces of what I can take from any and everybody.

Ryan Guzman

The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.

Chuck Jones

The surveillance revelations are critically important because they revealed that our rights are being redefined in secret, by secret courts that were never intended to have that role - without the consent of the public, without even the awareness of the majority of our political representatives.

Edward Snowden

For some reason, the Secret Service revealed this, that Sarah Palin's Secret Service code name is 'Denali.' Turns out 'Denali' is an old Eskimo name that means 'Dan Quayle.'