Secret Quotes - Page 70

Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.

The secret to a long and healthy marriage is to work at it and don't try and change each other.

Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy

Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder.

Oh, it can't be a reference to the fact Harry's a great Seeker, that's way too obvious. There must be a secret message from Dumbledore hidden in the icing!

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence.

We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where to look and did so with alacrity; you found the defect and knew how to cure it. But the thing within you, the secret mainspring that alone gave meaning to life, the thing within us that alone is living, alone is capable of feeling pleasure and pain, of craving happiness and experiencing it- that was unknown. You knew nothing about that, nothing at all, and if the mainspring failed there was no cure. Wasn't it insane?

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

What lies lurk in kisses.

I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.

How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality.

Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers.

Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.

I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.

That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.

One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.

Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart.