
“Some secrets stayed secrets because nobody knew them. Some because nobody told.”
Source: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 5 (p. 55)
Claimed about the coronavirus, as quoted in * 2020-09-16
Fact check: Trump made at least 22 false or misleading claims at ABC town hall
Daniel Dale
CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/16/politics/fact-check-trump-abc-town-hall/index.html
2020, September 2020
“Some secrets stayed secrets because nobody knew them. Some because nobody told.”
Source: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 5 (p. 55)
As quoted in "Angus may be a king-maker" by Deborah McDermott in Seacoast Online (11 March 2012) http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120311/NEWS/203110325/-1/NEWSMAP
Context: I think I can honestly say that if Olympia had announced her retirement because of ill health or to spend more time with Jock I probably wouldn't have run. … What perked me up is why she is leaving. Olympia has 30 years of seniority, she's likable, she works very hard, and if she can't make it work, nobody in either party is going to make it work. … I don't have any illusions it will be easy, but I do think particularly if the two parties are closely divided, I will have an influence … I might have a chance of starting a movement toward change in this broken system. This country has serious problems, but you can't address them if the institution set up to address the problems is broken.
“Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen.
Night passed.”
Source: The Iron Man (1968), Ch. 1 : The Coming of the Iron Man
“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”
Source: The Bell Jar
“It's an unbelievably complex subject. Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated.”
Speaking at the National Governors Association meeting at the White House https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2017/feb/27/trump-healthcare-complicated-budget-video (27 February 2017)
2010s, 2017, February
“(The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.)”
Source: Vinegar Girl
“Cause up until that day, I was an idiot, but nobody else knew, you know?”
Brian Regan Live (1997)
Source: Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo