Secret Quotes

There is a common language, a mode of consciousness, almost a secret sign which can be read and recognized by all who are similarly engaged. Such realizations help fend off the feeling of isolation which can dog the steps of those who seek the Grail.

~ John Matthews

Sarah Lynn strides out of the stairwell. Lawrence watches her go. The door slushes shut behind her, and he turns to me with a tightened jaw. I want to tell him: No, no, you've got it all wrong. I don't care if you kiss a white girl. I don't care if you love a white girl. I just wish you'd chosen a white girl worthy of your love.Lawrence's Adam's apple jerks up and down, and I realize that in addition to whatever else he's feeling, he's scared. He's in love with the darling of the school, Sarah Lynn Lancaster, ad he's afriad I'll expose his secret. I give a tiny shake of my head, wanting him to know he has nothing to fear, not from me.

~ Lauren Myracle

No man can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips.

~ Jed Rubenfeld

The secret is that there is no secret.

~ Lionel Shriver

Our analyses of the FDA data showed relatively little difference between the effects of antidepressants and the effects of placebos. Indeed, the effects were so small that they did not qualify as clinically significant. The drug companies knew how small the effect of their medications were compared to placebos, and so did the FDA and other regulatory agencies. The companies found various ways to make the data seem more favorable to their products, and the FDA helped them keep their negative data secret. In fact, in some instances, the FDA urged the companies to keep negative data hidden, even when the companies wanted to reveal them. My colleagues and I hadn't really discovered anything new. We had merely revealed their 'dirty little secret'.

~ Irving Kirsch

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~ Cathleen Margaret

Everyone has secret.Like the oyster with its grain of sand, we bury it deep within, coating it with opalescent layers, as if that could heal our mortal wound. Some of us devote our entire lives to keeping our secret hidden, safe from those who might pry it from us, hoarding it like the pearl, only to discover that it escapes us when we least expect it. revealed by a flash of fear in our eyes when caught unawares, by a sudden pain, a rage or hatred, or an all-consuming shame.

~ C.w. Gortner

... secrecy adds a charm to an amour ...

~ Frederick Marryat

God always rewards openly what was done in the secret.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Some things were secret even after you told them.

~ James S.a. Corey

In good time every secret must be shared and every miracle called into question.

~ Alice Hoffman

Let living and love, be one.

~ Peter Murphy

Love is the key, love is the secret.

~ Osho

The smell of jasmine makes people tell their secrets

~ Jandy Nelson

Freud is all nonsense, the secret of neurosis is to be found in the family battle of wills to see who can refuse the longest to help with the dishes.

~ Julian Mitchell

Biological harm from electromagnetic interference (EMI) is the dirty secret of the electrical, electronics and wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation industries.

~ Steven Magee

Well, it's not easy to find something that you do not know exists.

~ Patricia Nedelea

I kept my expectations low, which is one of the secrets of life.

~ Anne Lamott

I know that you always take around because you talk so much, but I like to always know what's happening in your world.

~ Anna Bell

It’s like my whole life my left ring finger has been lacking something, and finally it feels complete.

~ Anna Bell

She begins, “What is the question we spend our entire lives asking?” and answers, “Our question is this: Are we loved? I don’t mean by one another.” She closes her sermon to the snakes with these words: “I am like you, curious and small. Like you, I pause alertly and open my senses to try to read the air, the clouds, the sun’s slant, the little movements of the animals, all in the hope I will learn the secret of whether I am loved.

~ Pat Schneider

Every woman should feel like a princess on her wedding day, it’s practically a law.

~ Anna Bell

... it is easier to tell someone closer to you before you tell your partner.

~ Anna Bell

The fact that I am marrying the man of my dreams is all that matters.

~ Anna Bell

Instead I’ve built a house made of lies that have come crashing down around me.

~ Anna Bell

The secret is to keep yourself interesting.

~ Brownell Landrum

But there was something in his eyes at times that I would almost swear said something more. Some deeper sort of regard.

~ Emma Mills

The truth is, far too many people in our culture do not know what love is. And this not knowing feels like a terrible secret, a lack that we have to cover up.

~ Bell Hooks

Sign this... and I'll show you

~ A.j. Hartley

I flow like a butter in the nailed pan I stole. I also kept the nail, to polish and use as a means of teleportation.

~ Will Advise

Once you open up a secret, it starts leaking out all over.

~ Robert Ferrigno

The deeply secretive cannot grasp that protecting your secret too fiercely exposes it.

~ Kai Ashante Wilson

There are other ways than conventional doors to get around my house, Ms Rainn.

~ S.a. Tawks

Dear Anonymous, I've got a secret I know you can keep it because you don't really exist....This is what shapes you, this is what makes you as authentic as you are fake.

~ Kristen Henderson

It was the only lie she ever told. She did not do it to protect Francisco; she did it because she felt, for some reason which she could not define, that the incident was a secret too precious to share.

~ Ayn Rand

I'd never forget how it felt to say those words. To be in our place. In love with you, in love with us, in love with our secret, with the island we were building, keeping out the whole wide world.

~ Lauren Blakely

Pip wondered what the secret was of being different in a way that attracted people, as opposed to her own way.

~ Jonathan Franzen

Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor.

~ David Levithan

Most of my life has been spent keeping information close, turning it over and over in my mind. The impulse to share anything is a new one, the impulse to hide as natural as breathing.

~ Veronica Roth

The secret to happiness is a good sense of humor with adult content.

~ Abdul Ali Ii