Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Agre

Our lab had always refrained from keeping our studies secret.

Paulo Coelho

I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a window, looking out at the world and its secret places, poetry lost in time and words left hanging in space...sentences that are perfectly understood, even when left unspoken. Feelings that simultaneously exalt and suffocate.

Paulo Coelho

My turning point was my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. It was then that I, who had dedicated most of my life to penetrate the 'secrets' of the universe, realized that there are no secrets. Life is and will always be a mystery.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.

Maurice Blanchot

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

Maureen O'Hara

I'm really honestly terrified about how much I should tell and how much I should still keep secret.

Matthew Settle

I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy.

Nina Hagen

Lady Gaga is a pop prostitute, a satanic b-- with her fascist and demonic secret signs! Her pop prostitution has more to do with bikini advertising than with warmth,

Mitch Albom

Secrets tear you apart.

Mike Tyson

I don't care how much you love each other, if you have secrets, it'll never work. That's why she's your loved one, because it's the love of one. Togetherness, you are one.

Miguel de Cervantes

I shall be as secret as the grave.

Miguel de Cervantes

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

John Calvin

Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.

John Calvin

There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God's secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by Him.

Joan Miro

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.

Garry Kasparov

I don't make any secret of the fact that I'm closer to the Republicans than to the Democrats. But even under a President Hillary Clinton, US foreign policy toward Moscow would probably be more critical and confrontational. I hope it isn't too late for that.

Garry Kasparov

In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.

Garrison Keillor

Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesnt kill you...and to love one woman for the rest of your life.

Jimmy Fallon

This week the Obama administration warned China to remove its secret agents from the U.S. Then in the middle of Obama's announcement a plant behind him got up and walked away.

Joe Biden

When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That's when it will change.

Joan Blondell

I dont know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. Its more than talent and beauty. Maybe its the audience seeing itself in you.

Jimmy Reid

It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only too happy to let us know. When they are up to no good, they want that kept secret.

Lysander Spooner

What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

…there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.

John Flavel

Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life.

Leo Tolstoy

Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.

Leon Uris

A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.

Joseph Campbell

Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation....

John Dryden

Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.

John le Carre

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

John le Carre

Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.

John Barth

He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct funhouses for others and be their secret operator -- though he would rather be among the lovers for whom funhouses are designed.