Secret Quotes - Page 69

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?

My secret is I cannot go to bed, I cannot sleep, if my bed is not made before I go to bed. I can leave it unmade in the morning, but I have to remake it before I get into it to sleep.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it

Evolution is the secret for the next step.

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.

Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.

Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

Libertarians secretly worried that ultimately someone will figure out the whole of their political philosophy boils down to “Get Off My Property.” News flash: This is not really a big secret to the rest of us.

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle

Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

A long project is like a secret houseguest, hidden in your study, waiting to be fed and visited.

She said 'I love you' as if it were a secret, and an immense one.

Truth is not a mystery - its greatest secrets are yours to know through simple honesty and surrender to what that honesty reveals.

Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.

Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet not formal; mild, yet not timid; firm, yet not tyrannical - is made to pass the ordeal of honour, friendship, virtue.

God forbid we keep a couple secrets in this day and age!

You know, when everybody starts to live from their heart, and go for what they want, they don't go for the same things. That's the beauty of this. We don't all want BMWs. We don't all want the same person. We don't all want the same experiences. We don't all want the same clothing. We don't all want ..... fill in the blank

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

Community colleges are certainly one of America's best-kept secrets.

The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.