Top 1200 Best Kept Secrets Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.

What Edward Snowden did amounted to the greatest hemorrhaging of legitimate American secrets in the history of my nation.

The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

The secrets of small towns have fascinated writers and readers since the first psychological thriller was penned.

I'm just a real person and I tell it like it is. I don't have a lot of secrets, which has been a fault of mine.

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started telling herself a new story. Her dad had done the best he could. He wasn't capable of giving more. It had nothing to do with her. She could no longer take it personally.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope.

Growing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets.

I feel that what was done in the dark will come to light. There are secrets everybody's gonna find out about.

Best friends, no matter what they do or how much they hurt you, it only hurts as much as it does because they are your best friend. And none of us are perfect. Mistakes were made for best friends to forgive; it’s what makes being a best friend official.

Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets.

I'm too busy with entertainment to think about anything else. No one knows this sport better than I do. I've been a fan of this sport since UFC 1 in Denver. I've followed this sport, I've been obsessed with this sport, I've trained with the best of the best, and I've fought the best of the best.

I always want to give my best and do the best I can. I know when I have sung my best and when I haven't. There can be stresses and hassles with time travel and press attention. I just have to adapt and find a way of dealing with it.

One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.

Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.

It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

If I were to publicly give away my secrets, I'd be dumb. I am an intelligent woman who is focused on the prize.

I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.

The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets.

The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.

A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.

Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.

...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.

There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind.

It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.

Nothing has been more exciting for me knowing that Ring of Honor is experiencing their best crowds, their best buy rates, and their best merchandise numbers while I'm the champion.

In enlightenment you have to convince a teacher not only that you are worthy of teaching, but then that they should show you some of the secrets.

Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops

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

Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.

The mere knowledge of secrets will not help the amateur conjurer very far on the road to success.

The argument culture urges us to approach the world - and the people in it - in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: The best way to discuss an idea is to set up a debate; the best way to cover news is to find spokespeople who express the most extreme, polarized views and present them as 'both sides'; the best way to settle disputes is litigation that pits one party against the other; the best way to begin an essay is to attack someone; and the best way to show you're really thinking is to criticize.

What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

It almost makes the secrets more important, those few things you actually do choose to keep to yourself.

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

If you have life in you, you have access to the secrets of the ages, for the truth of the universe resides in each and every human being.

Talking about my deepest and darkest secrets to the world makes me feel better. It's cathartic.

Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.

Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.

You never know what your best is. I can't limit myself to a 60 and say it is my best. If I can chase any total and if I win matches for India, then only it would be my best.

Let me tell you, though - there’s a huge difference between Flanders and Paris–Roubaix. They’re not even close to the same. In one, the cobbles are used every day by the cars, and kept up, and stuff like that. The other one - it’s completely different … The best I could do would be to describe it like this - they plowed a dirt road, flew over it with a helicopter, and then just dropped a bunch of rocks out of the helicopter! That’s Paris–Roubaix. It’s that bad - it’s ridiculous.

It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.

And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the subway was the best part of the day? Wasn't it terrible that after all the work one put into finding a person to spend one's life with, after making a family with that person, even in spite of missing that person...that solitude was what one relished the most, the only thing that, even in fleeting, diminished doses, kept one sane?

I must have books everywhere. They're the soul of a room-they reveal the taste, the interests, and the secrets of whoever lives there.

I think all of the secrets of the universe are revealed in history. We understand who we are by understanding where we've been and why we are the way we are, and where we come from.

Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.

My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know, she just kept feeding it to me. So we went to see all kinds of theater. We would go to the art museum pretty much every Sunday, and I would watch her. She let me know that art was supposed to touch.

Every study on chocolate is pointing to the same conclusion: there is something in chocolate that is really good for us. That something is the raw cacao bean, the nut that all chocolate is made from. The cacao bean has always been and will always be Nature's #1 weight loss and high-energy food. Cacao beans are probably the best kept secret in the entire history of food.

Quiet people keep thier secrets to themselves. That's what makes them interesting...and usually worth the wait.

I think," Jace said, "that you don't want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec because...

There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.

He is the best. The best in the world, yes. Probably the best ever. I saw Maradona a couple of times. I never saw Pele. But Cristiano is amazing. This man is the best... Cristiano is a goals machine. He is an incredible player. He is like Zidane, there will never be another Ronaldo.