I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance authorities with restraint, I believe it is more likely that I will achieve my life-long dream of playing in the NBA.

Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.

In the back of his mind, he had always wondered why — why they harbored such resentment for him. Now he had the answer, and he felt sick. He felt the bottom dropping out.

Secrets can kill the innocent and enchant the guilty.

Then, as tonight, he had felt lonely, but soon had learnt the bounty of such loneliness. The music had breathed to him its message, to him alone amongst these ordinary folk, whispered its gentle secret....

The secrets in his brain were like some mesmerizing drug to me.

We all have our secrets. We all have our vulnerabilities.

Jews have been the most successful and productive nation in history.

Lie until even you believe it – that’s the real secret of lying

Never, my little one, hide anything from those that love you. Never let anything that makes itself a nest in your heart, grow into a secret, for then at once it will begin to eat...

I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetuated fraud against himself.

A miserable collection of little secrets, that’s all any of us is. 

Lying in bed, half-covered by the blankets, I would drowsily ask why he had come to my door that night long ago. It had become a ritual for us, as it does for all lovers:...

You are asking us to lie, Colonel?””I am asking you to omit. Surely, amidst the…the infinite gradations of human venality, that particular sin ranks low.” The old man kneaded the folds of his throat. “What...

He was afraid that the secrets she’d kept would always be here, inside him, an ugly malignant thing lodged near enough to his heart to upset its rhythm, and though it could be removed, cut...

A funeral is no place for secrets.

No. No more surprises. No more secrets. Or so help me, I will rip off your own leg and beat you with it.

Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it’s a negative importance, it’s the importance of a blank sheet of paper. I can know because...

A tiding of magpies: One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told

They have to tell,” he’d saidWell, apparently so.But why? What is it that comes from the telling?Some of it must be relief, of course. A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a...

It turns out that when there is some conspicuous gap or contradiction at the center of someone’s existence, there is probably a very specific, obvious reason for it, and the reason you’re avoiding confronting it...

The secret of wisdom is to be overly curious, like a cat–to take the time to look closely, to use all your senses to see and to touch and to taste and to smell and...

Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it.

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

Everyone had a dirty, little secret that is never spoken out loud to anyone. Which is another way of saying people are never what they seem.

Theatres are curious places, magician’s trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and...

He has never told anyone this story. He doesn’t mind talking to Richard, to Rafe about his past–within reason–but he doesn’t mean to give away pieces of himself.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare’s muchd message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black...

We all have secrets we keep locked away from the rest of the world… Friendships we pretend… Relationships we hide… But worst of all… Love we never let show. The most dangerous secrets a person...

Secrets were never good. They were supposed to protect people, but they never did. They always made things worse.

Secrets are never so dangerous as when they’ve been forgotten.

Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing [as a nice safe history].

Ronan’s second secret was Adam Parrish.

I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly; I achieve an altered state that I can’t explain; I have a secret that I cannot...

You have shared your secret. I think you will find it to be an unburdening in many other ways. You have very considerable natural advantages. You have nothing to fear from life. A day will...

If I guess your secret, will you tell me if I’m right?” His father laughed but didn’t answer.

People always have secrets. It’s just a matter of finding out what they are.

We are bound by the secrets we share.

I want something good to die for. . . to make it beautiful to live.

Mensen, zo heb ik ontdekt, bestaan uit verschillende lagen. Je denkt dat je hen kent, dat je hen begrijpt, maar hun echte drijfveren liggen altijd diep in hun hart verscholen. Je zult ze nooit echt...

That’s literally one of those things where if I tell you I have to kill you. A witch’s wand is a powerful tool and could be disastrous if it fell into the wrong hands.

The value of secrets is ever fluctuating although ladies who have been in society for a long time learn that a secret kept can be worth more than a secret told.

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.

Wasifu wa viongozi wa Kolonia Santita ni siri kwa sababu siri ni siri ya mafanikio.

Sometimes since I’ve been in the garden I’ve looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my...

Keeping secrets isn’t my specialty.

Incest, rape and abuse is rampant everywhere, even in our churches, but society is silent. It is a silent epidemic. One in three women will experience a sexual assault in her lifetime and one in...