All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets. — Cory Doctorow
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard. — Jean De La Fontaine
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. — George Bernard Shaw
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. — Paul Tournier
Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity. — Marshall McLuhan
There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy. — Joseph Pulitzer
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation. — Charles Caleb Colton
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. — Roald Dahl
Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole. — African Proverbs
Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love. — Laura Esquivel
Short Dirty Secrets Quotes
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. — Charles Caleb Colton
My secrets must be poetic to be believable. — Mick Jagger
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness. — Alexander Smith
I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret. — Walter Winchell
People hide the truth because they're afraid. — Nicholas Sparks
Evil is nourished and grows by concealment. — Virgil
I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family. — Naomi Judd
A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping. — Kenneth Tynan
The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets. — Sara Shepard
In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories — Sol Stein
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
Dark Secrets Quotes
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,in secret, between the shadow and the soul. — Pablo Neruda
And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. — Sylvia Plath
You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. — Susanna Kaysen
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret. — Vernon Howard
Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified. — Winona Ryder
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. — Pablo Neruda
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. — Anthony Hecht
If he wants meaning-the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life-a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. — Jed Rubenfeld
All I have to say is, Love one another - that is the height of all philosophy. It is beyond all religions. It is the secret of joy - the fountain of Perpetual Youth - the only rainbow on life's dark cloud. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Hidden Secrets Quotes
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. — Buddha
Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. — Roald Dahl
Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don't understand the great secrets hidden inside of us. — Teresa of Avila
The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. — Mike Murdock
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. — Roald Dahl
Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God
manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of
the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and
the leaf. — Rumi
Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you. — Roald Dahl
Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high. — William Goldman
Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I. — Ahmad Shamloo
Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone. — Alan Watts
Believe this: Everything you need to be great is already inside you. All your ambitions and secrets, your darkest dreams . . . they’re waiting for you to just let go. — Tim Grover
I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone. — Conor Oberst
Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say
Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel. So are your goodness, your rightness, your church attendance, and all of the wise, moral, mature decisions you have made and actions you have taken. — Rob Bell
No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn't glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It's all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets. — Tupac Shakur
If depression has been viewed as a taboo subject in the church, then suicide and suicidal thoughts are the darkest secret of all. Talking about it doesn't make it more real or powerful; it brings it out of the shadows into the light and love of Christ. — Sheila Walsh
We all carry these things inside that no one can see. They hold us down like anchors and they drown us out at sea.
I think my friends tell me their deepest darkest secrets only because they know it won't ever come out. — Shay Mitchell
Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know? — Kevin Spacey
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
What is love? Love is when one person knows all of your secrets, deepest, darkest, most dreadful secrets of which no one else in the world knows. And yet in the end, that one person does not think any less of you. — Aleatha Romig
His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life. — Veronica Roth
The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum and Jack knew about. Jonah kept it in his sock drawer next to a photograph of Jonah and a girl with sad eyes, taken in one of those railway station photo booths. — Melina Marchetta
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the various mystery schools have kept the flame alive by passing on the secret techniques for attaining enlightenment from the time of Atlantis to our present day. — Frederick Lenz
Nigeria is one of the best-kept secrets. — Aliko Dangote
When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That's when it will change. — Joe Biden
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king. — Stephen King
Time is the best kept secret of the rich. — Jim Rohn
Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery. — Liam Neeson
A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets. — Lauren Oliver
Keeping Secrets Quotes
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. — Dick Gregory
The secret is to believe in your dreams; in your potential that you can be like your star, keep searching, keep believing and don’t lose faith in yourself. — Neymar
If you keep my secret, this strawberry is yours. — Tsugumi Ohba
There are two rules for success: 1. Never tell everything you know.
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. — Maximilien Robespierre
I never brag, how real i keep it, cause thats the best secret. — Nas
I'll give you this strawberry if you keep it a secret. --L (Death Note) — Tsugumi Ohba
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful - never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any fear, thought or anxiety. — Sathya Sai Baba
Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. — Proverbs
Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe. — Andrea Gibson
Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking. — Fats Domino
Sharing Secrets Quotes
The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you. — Chanakya
My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people, his indictment for espionage could reveal (or confirm) that the US Government views you and me as the enemy. — Ron Paul
I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly; I achieve an altered state that I can’t explain; I have a secret that I cannot share. — Omar Khayyam
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed rampaging like a train. There the faint signs are left, coins of time and water, debris ,celestial ash and the irreplaceable rapture of sharing in the labour of soitude in the sand. — Pablo Neruda
Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people. — W. H. Auden
The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator. — Peter Thiel
We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet. — Pam Brown
Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object. — J. I. Packer
Secret Confessions Quotes
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. — Saint Jerome
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. — Dorothy Dix
There cannot be a secret Christian. Grace is like ointment hid in the hand; it betrayeth itself. If you truly feel the sweetness of the cross of Christ, you will be constrained to confess Christ before men. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate secrets or confessions, but rather with establishing, in motion, an essential image of the kind that remains in memory or recurs in dreams. — Oskar Kokoschka
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. — Karl Marx
I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold. — Erik Larson
Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul. — Adlai Stevenson I
The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day. — William Bolitho
And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept. — Jean Cocteau
If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised." — Emile M. Cioran
Achievement requires more than a vision - it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality — Earl Nightingale
Don't concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal - leave that completely to a power greater than yourself. All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord, and at the right time. — Earl Nightingale
Each of us must live off the fruit of his thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow, next month and next year, you will mold your life and determine your future. You are guided by your mind. — Earl Nightingale
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. — Earl Nightingale
You become what you think about most of the time. — Brian Tracy
No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others. — Earl Nightingale
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. — Earl Nightingale
All you have to do is hold your goal before you and everything else will take care of itself. — Earl Nightingale
We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret. — Earl Nightingale
Growing up in a small Alaska town, domestic violence was that dirty little secret nobody talked about. We must start talking about it. For too long, we have been providing protection to the wrong people. — Lisa Murkowski
It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky. — Muriel Spark
We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows. — Katharine Graham
'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw. — Frank Miller
The dirty little secret is that both houses of Congress are irrelevant. ... America's domestic policy is now being run by Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve, and America's foreign policy is now being run by the International Monetary Fund [IMF]. ...when the president decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from Congress. — Robert Reich
The secret of the creative life is how to feel at ease with your own embarrassment. We're all in the dirty laundry business and we're being paid to take risks and look silly. Race car drivers get paid to risk their lives in a more concrete way; we get paid to risk our lives in an emotional way. — Paul Schrader
When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It's a dirty, dark secret; I'm glad it's coming out. — Charles Barkley
We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism. — Henry Cisneros
The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set. — Andrew Sullivan
The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for. — Robert McKee
The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an 80% "piracy" rate if you insist on looking at it in those terms. — Charles Stross
Prosecutors must reveal the dirty little secret they too often share only among themselves: The death penalty actually hinders the fight against crime. — Robert M. Morgenthau
For me, the historical and genealogical library is the one I use. I'm working on, I'll say, it's a time travel novel. I haven't written very much of it. That's the dirty secret of the Cullman center: The writers don't write their fiction there, they just do their research. — Andrew Sean Greer
Nobody feels like an adult. It's the world's dirty secret. — Richard Jenkins
Politics is still the man's game. The women are allowed to do the chores, the dirty work, and now and then--but only occasionally--one is present at some secret conference or other. But it's not the rule. They can go out and get the vote, if they can and will; they can collect money, they can be grateful for being permitted to work. But that is all. — Mary Roberts Rinehart
Still, it's nice to have one person who knows all your secrets. — Chuck Palahniuk
I've been to Washington many times over the years for stories, and it always seems remarkably the same. More the same than the rest of the country. It's almost like they dress the same as they did 20 years ago. The same old guys are sitting outside the same dirty, dingy secret offices in the Capitol that you're not allowed to go in. — Dave Barry
I think that a lot of people are in love with stress. It's the dirty little secret of Western civilization. People often mistake stress for fuel.... to me, stress is just another bad drug that I don't want to do. — Jerry Stahl
The dirty little secret is that you, Barack Obama, are the candidate of 'unity.' If you are the candidate of unity, why can't you even bring your own party together? Why can't you and Hillary Clinton get together and solve this, instead of having Operation Chaos prolong all of this disunity? I mean, these people are starting to tear each other apart. — Rush Limbaugh
You know what the biggest fear among women who age is becoming bag women. They're 55, 60, with no relationship and no job, and they worry about it. Look, the dirty little secret is the women listening to me know that this is a very factual assessment of our culture today, and it is very unfair, and it hurts, and it bothers them greatly. — Rush Limbaugh
The dirty little secret is Donald Trump's views are not all that different from the rest of the Republicans in the field. Nobody in the Republican field supports a path to citizenship. They're all pretty tough on immigration. — Eleanor Clift
The dirty little secret, folks, is Obama is not only for occupying Wall Street. He also wants to occupy Main Street. — Rush Limbaugh
My husband regarded my prison past as a dirty secret and never asked me one single question about it. But what I had experienced and witnessed was eating at me and I needed to "tell somebody." — Patricia McConnell
War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat. — Kathryn Bigelow
One of the dirty little secrets of the stock market rally is that the rising corporate profits that powered it are largely phantom profits. They are artifacts of currency devaluation, not an increase in efficiency or production of goods and services. — Charles Hugh Smith
One of the dirty little secrets of my job is that I don't do ANY food or cooking shows. — Hank Stuever
I think one of the dirty little secrets that I try to reveal here is that Washington is not hopelessly divided. It's very interconnected. We're talking about people sort of feeding from the same insider trough, where if you are known as an insider, you are going to get paid and do very, very, very well. — Mark Leibovich
Data quality is corporate America's dirty little secret. — Paul Gillin
My wife and I have purchased two hybrids. We bought a 3 kw photovoltaic unit. We recycle and offset our carbon emissions on the Internet. We turn things off. But we also spend two nice salaries every year, and here's the dirty little secret - our environmental footprint is HUGE, I'm sure. We've all got to do what we can in our individual lives, but we've also got to drive the systemic changes that will make the big differences. — James Gustave Speth
The secret to a good marriage, as far as I am concerned, is a joke I make: Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty. — Michael J. Fox
That is supposed to be the rallying cry of women in the age of AIDS: no condom, no sex. But the dirty little secret is that the rallying cry is a whisper.... The great unspoken on the heterosexual AIDS front has been how behavior is still determined by the old psychosexual minuet of the sexes, the lack of responsibility in young men and of assertiveness in young women. — Anna Quindlen
You have celebrities who are pushed to the brink of a public meltdown, and so the public thinks that every person in the public eye has dirty secrets that they're keeping, or isn't what they seem, or is masking it and faking sincerity, faking authenticity, faking being surprised at award shows when you win a Grammy. — Taylor Swift
A lot of the things that involve power on the highest levels sometimes involve the darker side of human psychology. People can be very passive aggressive or they can be aggressive and they can conceal their intentions. There's this world that exists that nobody writes about or describes it's like a dirty little secret or taboo. — Robert Greene
It's a dirty little secret that most New Yorkers are pleasant, thoughtful, patient, and polite. The Chamber of Commerce must work overtime to maintain the surly, off-putting image that is widely believed to define the city. In truth, niceness is nearly epidemic in this town. — Judith Kelman
I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is that it's not attainable any more than pure justice is attainable by the courts. — Sebastian Junger
The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong. — Tim Cahill
War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. — Kathryn Bigelow
I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny... I forgive him everything. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. Heads of state at the UN should put an end them. That would be the best way of tracking down the drug traffickers. — Evo Morales
The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture. — Norman Podhoretz
That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she felt that she deserved it because she'd let it happen. Even now, it shamed her, and there were times when she felt hideously ugly, as though the scars that had been left behind were visible to everyone. — Nicholas Sparks
Some of this story is completely true. And some of it isn't. Like truth, evil comes in all sorts of flavors. Some bitter. Some deceptively sweet. Sometimes it comes with a heavy price. While most people don't invite evil into their lives, the dirty little secret is that an invitation isn't necessary. Locked doors don't matter. Neither do fancy security systems. Evil is kind of amazing when you think about it. She knows how to get inside. — Gregg Olsen
My fear represented the failure of the human system. It is a sad truth of our creation: Something is amiss in our design, there are loose ends of our psychology that are simply not wrapped up. My fears were the dirty secrets of evolution. They were not provided for, and I was forced to construct elaborate temples to house them. — Steve Martin
But I'm no hero. I had to keep my dirty little secret. The worst sin I committed was holding it in; letting the secret blacken me. — Julie Anne Peters
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