Secret Quotes - Page 95

Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible.

Next to the Bible, the book I value most is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. I believe I have read it through at least a hundred times. It is a volume of which I never seem to tire; and the secret of its freshness is that it is so largely compiled from the Scriptures.

That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.

Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows.

I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.

The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.

When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.

For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.

No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again.

Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.

Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the simple and beautiful things around him.

The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that's even worse

Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you're done before you know it.

I'll clue you in on a secret: death is not the worst thing that could happen to you. I know we think that; we are the first society ever to think that. It's not worse than dishonor; it's not worse than losing your freedom; its not worse than losing a sense of personal responsibility.

If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.

Well, I really don't know what the secret of success is but I can tell you that the secret of failure is to try to please everyone.

I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.

When you're not allowed to stay up late, the secret is to just wake up really, really early.

I tell my wife all my secrets.

[On speaking of family secrets:] I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.

The secret of living a full life is to be fully engaged, moment to moment, to have something in your life that engages you so that there's nothing missing.

The secret of the truly successful ... is that they learned early in life how not to be busy.

Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.

In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.

The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.