Quotes about secretion

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“I had made a decision, although I hardly knew it yet. It's often that way with decisions, they're made in some hidden part of us and the awareness secretes itself slowly into that conscious part of us that imagines it decides.”

“The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.”

“Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.”

“Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way, when they came, the offered themselves as a gift.”

“One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness”

“The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.”

“I know how this feels: the tightening of the chest, the panic, the what-have-I-done-wait-I-was-kidding. Eating disorders linger so long undetected, eroding the body in silence, and then they strike. The secret is out. You're dying.”

“Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.”

“That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.”

“What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.”

“I think… the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes… Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for whatmake you happy.”

“We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.”

“I have always been a romantic; one of those who believes that a woman in pink circus tights holds all the secrets of the world.”

“Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all.”

“She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.”

“Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.”

“Maybe, there's a moment growing up when something peels back… Maybe, maybe, we look for secrets because we can't believe our mind.”

“To love someone was not what she had expected. It was like falling from somewhere high up and breaking in half, and only one person having the secret to the puzzle of putting her back together.”

“Secrets tear you apart.”

“There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding”

“But the heaviest things, I think, are the secrets. They can drown you if you let them.”

“Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying”

“There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.”

“Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music…”

“Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It’s a given and that’s the secret.”

“Secret to what?"
"Secret to shutting you up," he said. "I just have to beat you till you're half-dead, then give you chicken soup and"--he raised his hands--"blessed silence.”

“A place to keep all your secrets”

“When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.”

“I'm an agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service. I do not dotraps.”

“American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.”

“Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.”

“Laila: Tell your secrets to the wind but don't blame it for telling the trees.”

“Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others.”

“Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it.”

“The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret… but you wont find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled.”

“… the only way to keep your secrets safe is to have none at all…”

“To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.”

“Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops”

“There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible bodycasts.”

“Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.”

“Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.”

“And mortal terror in a female was Z's favorite turn-on. He got off on it like most males favored crap from Victoria's Secret.”

“Theres this other half of him i dont know of, its like he is trying it keep it a secret…. if he would just let me inside so i can help”

“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”

“Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.”

“No one knows better than I do how far heaven is, but I also know all the shortcuts. The secret is to die, when you want to, and not when He proposes. Or else to force Him to take you before your time.”

“The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.”

“Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.”

“That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.”

“The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.”

“Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.”

“It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.”

“Now Everybody has some secret goals in life… Sometimes you can get what you want and what you need at the sames time.”

“What’s in that backpack, by the way? You’re always guarding it like it holds national security secrets or something. (Tory)
Dirty underwear. (Acheron)”

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”

“Often, moreover, it is… that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.”

“That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.”

“The secret is to know how to lie" he used to say, " and to know when someone's lying to you". His father, Steve eventually decided, must have known how to lie.”

“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”

“Love -- not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love seesthem to the secret inside.”

“I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind youto keep in, and the kind you don'tto let out.”

“The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”

“You could care enough to keep a secret, but you could care enough to tell one, too.”

“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.”

“The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.”

“The secret is that there is no secret.”

“Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets.”

“The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.”

“It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112”

“Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets?”

“Love rules, but no one knows where it has its throne; in order to know that secret place, you must first submit to Love.”

“And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.”

“Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.”

“I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.”

“She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.”

“Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?”

“Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again?”

“Our secret weapon, Khione! We're not just a bunch of demigods. We're a team.”

“He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.”

“People who know other people’s secrets can’t afford to do things that impair their ability to control their mouths.”

“All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.”

“So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.”

“I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away.”

“Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.”

“The Secret: Law of Attraction”

“The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.”

“Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.”

“Secrets of the heart. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time, they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.”

“Anyone who calls it "sexual intercourse" can't possibly be interested in actually doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming, "I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting.”

“Lookin up at the huge baboons, I wondered if Khufu had some sort of secret baboon code that would get us in. But instead he barked at the statues and cowered heroically behind my legs.”

“I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.”

“There's always another secret.”

“Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.”

“He wont have to worry about you spilling his secrets.”
“Yeah,” Jace said, “he‘s terrified I‘ll tell everyone that he‘s always really wanted to be a ballerina.”
-Inquisitor & Jace about Valentine, pg.123-”

“He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.”

“Clearly the secret of happiness… is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.”

“Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.”

“A woman's heart is an ocean of deep secrets.”

“Everyone has secrets.
Especially me.”