Secret Quotes - Page 97

I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.

Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational raptus; or the other, that the writer has followed a recipe, a kind of secret set of rules that they would like to see revealed. There is no set of rules, or, rather, there are many, varied and flexible rules.

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.

I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.

I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.

The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.

The secret of my full identity is hidden in Him. He alone can make me who I am, or rather who I will be when at last I fully begin to be. But unless I desire this identity and work to find it with Him and in Him, the work will never be done

I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.

Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal.

People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room.

It's no secret - if you know me, have ever met me or have shared a meal with me - that I'm a passionate environmentalist.

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

Sometimes, unfortunately, when we make choices there are consequences but, ultimately, the longer we keep things down and hold them secret, the longer the enemy can use them against us.

I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.

I guess I've always been attracted to secret societies and the mystery surrounding them.

Just do a thing and don’t talk about it. This is the great secret of success.

Friends share secrets. That's what keeps us close.

One of the important things is that a lot of people forget that a biker club is a secret society.

The soul which cannot endure fire and smoke won't find the Secret.

Guard the secret theater of your heart. See nothing there that you do not want to see happen in reality.

Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of precarious slime, of surface mildew, in which a ferment is already working. A turbulent, spasmodic sap, a presage and expectation of a new way of being, breaking with mineral perpetuity and boldly exchanging it for the doubtful privilege of being able to tremble, decay, and multiply.

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.