Quotes about secretion
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“Ooh. Top secret angel business, huh? What’re you going to do? Dance on a pinhead? Lobby for National Cute Puppy Day?”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Dreams

Secret, Angels, Business, Dance

“Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Women, Secret, Nature

“I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

Secret, Books

“You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

Love, People, Secret, Time

“I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.”

Ben Hecht (1894–1964) American screenwriter

Secret, World, Madness

“The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.”

Michael Cunningham book A Home at the End of the World

Source: A Home at the End of the World

Secret, Law

“dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Source: Legacy of Lies & Don't Tell

Truth, Secret, Dreams

“It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.”

Mary Stewart book The Hollow Hills

Source: The Hollow Hills

Love, Death, Women, Secret

“To be inspired - that's the secret.”

Andre Agassi book Open. An Autobiography

Source: Open

Secret

“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

Secret, Universe, Personality

“Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.”

E. Lockhart book The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

People, Secret

“Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead”

Stephen King book Under the Dome

Source: Under the Dome

Secret, Dead

“You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

Source: Alice in Wonderland: Based on the Motion Picture Directed by Tim Burton

People, Secret

“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Life, Secret, Happiness

“We fell into silence, both of us keeping our own secrets of what we'd suffered in the other's absence. I wondered if we were trying to protect each other or simply didn't want to admit to our own fears and weaknesses.”

Richelle Mead book Silver Shadows

Source: Silver Shadows

Secret, Fear, Silence, Suffering

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.”

Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general

As quoted in The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell (2003) by Oren Harari, p. 164.
2000s

Success, Life, Business, Powerful

“Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.”

Spider Robinson (1948) Canadian author

Variant: ... one of the secret masters of
the world: a librarian. They
control information. Don't ever p**s one off.
Source: The Callahan Touch

Secret, World

“I'm going to tell you a secret. Our lives are shaped by the future, not by the past. Once you decide how you want your life to be, all you need to do is live into that future.”

Wendy Mass (1967) American children's writer

Source: Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall

Life, Secret, Past, Future

“They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.”

N. Scott Momaday book House Made of Dawn

Source: House Made of Dawn

Secret, Soul

“Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.”

Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows

Source: The Wind in the Willows

Secret, Animals

“… one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

Secret, Parent, Rage

“Words were secret doorways and I held all the keys.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

Secret

“There is very seldom any true secret.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Deep Secret

Source: Deep Secret

Secret

“The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

Source: Keep a Quiet Heart

Secret, Christ

“I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.”

Anaïs Nin book A Spy in the House of Love

Variant: We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.
Source: A Spy in the House of Love

Hate, Secret

“may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living”

E.E. Cummings Him

Source: Him

Secret, Bird, Heart

“I know too well how dangerous hope can be, how it grows and sometimes dies, taking its host with it. It's more powerful than anything Dr. Fibs keeps in his labs, more precious than all the secrets inside Sublevel Two.”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

Secret, Hope

“Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

Secret

“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.”

George Bernard Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession

Crofts, Act III
Variant: There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.
Source: 1890s, Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893)

Secret

“Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.”

John Dryden book The Hind and the Panther

Pt. III, line 763.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

Silence, Secret

“The things that are most precious to us are sometimes the most secret.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Perfect Scoundrels

Secret

“And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.”

Carson McCullers (1917–1967) American writer

Source: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

Love, Truth, Secret, Way

“In secret we met
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

When We Two Parted (1808), st. 4.
Context: In secret we met
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee?
With silence and tears.

Secret, Silence, Heart, Forgetting

“I think,” Jace said, “that you don’t want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec because…”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Secret, Thinking

“We are bound by the secrets we share.”

Zoë Heller (1965) British writer

Source: What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]

Secret

“Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.”

Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

Lie, Secret

“I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

Secret, Fear

“And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

Secret

“…the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

Source: I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

Death, Secret, Thinking

“MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Secret, Nature

“i fear no fate(for you are my fate, my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Source: Selected Poems

Fate, Secret, World, Fear

“This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.”

Sophie Kinsella book Shopaholic Ties the Knot

Source: Shopaholic Ties the Knot

Secret, Personality

“The corners of his lips curled. “You and your secrets. Ah,, just when I think I’ve solved one mystery about you, up comes another one. I will figure you out one day. Consider yourself warned.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Poison Princess

Secret, Thinking

“The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.”

Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

Secret

“Dear Jack,

I love you, too.

And I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage— just choose someone you can't live without.

For me, that would be you.

So if you insist on being traditional…

Yes.

—Ella”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

Love, Marriage, Secret, Thinking

“I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.”

John Grisham book A Painted House

Source: A Painted House

Secret

“It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom.”

Ted Dekker book Forbidden

Source: Forbidden

Love, Pleasure, Secret, Feeling

“If this were a movie, I would bust a secret move so fierce the entire place would be razed to the ground. I'd finish with something snappy like "And don't forget my soda, punk" while I strolled off into the night.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

Secret, Night, Forgetting

“if there is any secret to this life i live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can. and there is nothing more to it than that.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Life, Secret, Singing

“In secret we met
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee?
With silence and tears.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

When We Two Parted (1808), st. 4.

Secret, Tear, Silence, Heart

“Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets, lies, stories. We all tell them. Sometimes, because we hope to entertain. Sometimes, because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

Secret, Hope

“We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.”

Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director

Source: Viola in Reel Life

Secret, Fear, Sister, Help

“A secret spoken finds wings.”

Robert Jordan The Path of Daggers

Source: The Path of Daggers

Secret

“Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.”

Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Secret

“Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.”

Richard Ford book The Lay of the Land

Source: The Lay of the Land

Secret

“With you, my life felt indeed like a fantastic adventure - despite our ordinary circumstances, your love imbued everything we did with secret riches.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

Love, Life, Secret

“It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.”

Agatha Christie book The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Source: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Secret

“In that moment she learnt one of the greatest secrets of life: It is often easier to fight for others than it is for yourself.”

David Clement-Davies book Fell

Source: Fell

Life, Secret, Fight

“You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

Secret

“Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about.
[Mameha]”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Secret, Water, Change, Waiting

“I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. […] Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long, and four A. M. knows all my secrets.”

Poppy Z. Brite (1967) Novelist, short story writer, food writer

Secret, Time, Night

“There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion
that if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble
Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
Spilled on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Life, Secret, Water, Chance

“There are some secrets we keep because we can't bear to let them out and some because it's better to keep them in.”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Secret

“Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks.
Life itself had become a secret affair.”

Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist

Source: A Secret Affair

Life, Secret

“If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner… if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

Secret, Silence

“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Secret, History, Study

“Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Secret

“She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims…”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

Secret, Flowers

“When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the Uncarved Block: Life is Fun.”

Benjamin Hoff book The Tao of Pooh

The Tao of Who?
Source: The Tao of Pooh (1982)

Life, Secret, Way

“Go away, the old buildings said. There is no place for you here. You are not wanted. We have secrets.”

Harper Lee book Go Set a Watchman

Source: Go Set a Watchman

Secret

“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

Secret, Sleep, Personality

“Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.”

Anaïs Nin book Delta of Venus

Source: Delta of Venus

Women, Men, Secret, Personality

“… Promises are more dangerous then secrets.”

Aimee Friedman (1979) American writer

Secret

“The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well.”

John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) American business magnate and philanthropist

Success, Life, Business, Secret

“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Secret, Education

“He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

Source: The Aleph and Other Stories

God, Secret

“I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

Secret

“If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: A Wallflower Christmas

Secret, Learning, Past, Country

“The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down.”

Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

Blood Meridian (1985)
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Context: The judge tilted his great head. The man who believes that the secrets of this world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.

Secret, World, Fear

“There are secrets within secrets, though--always.”

David Foster Wallace book The Pale King

Source: The Pale King

Secret

“… the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.”

Marisha Pessl (1977) American writer

Source: Night Film

Love, Secret

“After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.”

Arthur C. Clarke book 2010: Odyssey Two

Source: 2010: Odyssey Two

Love, Secret

“The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto: A Novel

Secret, World, Music

“The best secrets are the most twisted”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

Source: Twisted

Secret

“Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.”

Alice Hoffman book The Dovekeepers

Source: The Dovekeepers

For Mother, Secret, Way, Daughters

“Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it's there and sitting down

on it
and because you are
forever making poems in the lap
of death Humanity

i hate you”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Love, Life, Death, Hate

“The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Secret, Night

“We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever… and all the time it is carrying us about… It is the human nervous system itself.”

Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath

Source: Cosmic Trigger Volume I: Final Secret of the Illuminati

God, Secret, Time

“That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Source: 1920s, p. 157 London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Response to atheist Alfred Kerr in the winter of 1927, who after deriding ideas of God and religion at a dinner party in the home of the publisher Samuel Fischer, had queried him "I hear that you are supposed to be deeply religious" as quoted in The Diary of a Cosmopolitan (1971) by H. G. Kessler
Context: Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.

Secret, Religion, Nature

“Vinyaya was being openly antagonistic, and that was an emotion that could be trusted, unless of course it was a bluff and the commander was a secret fan of his, unless it was a double bluff and she really did feel antagonistic.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Atlantis Complex

Secret, Feeling

“My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.”

Isabel Allende (1942) Chilean writer

Source: My Invented Country : A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile

Secret

“Supposedly, dreams reflect our hidden fears and secret desires, all clamoring for attention.”

Rachel Hawthorne (1950) American author

Source: Full Moon

Secret, Fear, Dreams

“And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell… You know you love me.
XOXO,
Gossip Girl”

Cecily von Ziegesar (1970) American writer

Love, Secret, Girl

“I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Secret, Moms, Perfection

“There were a thousand secrets in her eyes, a thousand wounds. A lifetime of distrust and betrayal. Isolation. How did one overcome such things?”

Christine Feehan book Mind Game

Source: Mind Game

Secret, Betrayal

“The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Chapter 10 http://books.google.com/books?id=pgPWOaOctq8C&q=%22The+secret+of+a+good+old+age+is+simply+an+honorable+pact+with+solitude%22&pg=PA199#v=onepage <br class="br">Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)

Secret, Age, Solitude

“People are secretive when they have secrets.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

People, Secret

“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

Success, Motivational, Deep, Happy

“Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

"The Sick Chamber," The New Monthly Magazine (August 1830), reprinted in Essays of William Hazlitt, selected and edited by Frank Carr (London, 1889)
Source: Essays of William Hazlitt: Selected and Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Frank Carr

Secret, Books, Soul

“It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it's so easy. it's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along.”

Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon

Source: Keeping the Moon

Secret, Beauty, Home, Girl

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Quotes about secretion
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