Secret Quotes - Page 60

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.

You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.

Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle

The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered.

The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.

I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity.

Distraction is our habitual state. Not the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up in the secret and ever-changing land of his fantasy, but the distraction of the person who is always outside himself, lost in the trivial, senseless, turmoil of everyday life.

What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective.

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?’ His voice dropped to a whisper. ‘But here’s the secret: in between, we need others as well.

I don't care how much you love each other, if you have secrets, it'll never work. That's why she's your loved one, because it's the love of one. Togetherness, you are one.

Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?

What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at the head table, held together by a familiar rhetoric. Those who already have power continue to glide along the familiar rut they have made for themselves.

Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

The secret angels of God are only as alive as the marble angels of Michelangelo!

Search for the secret stairs of the wise men; when you find them, lose no time to start ascending!

I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be.

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.

The child takes in his world as if it were food. And his world nourishes or starves him. Nothing escapes his thirst. Secrets are impossible. He identifies with his surroundings and they live within him unconsciously; it is perhaps for this reason that the small child has been characterized as naturally religious.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.