Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. R. R. Tolkien

But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,' said Frodo. Sam looked at him unhappily. 'It all depends on what you want,' put in Merry. 'You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin--to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours--closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder." - Gandalf

Morrie Schwartz

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive. And at the end of life, we need others to survive. But here's the secret, in between, we need others as well.

Morihei Ueshiba

If you have life in you, you have access to the secrets of the ages, for the truth of the universe resides in each and every human being.

Joseph Addison

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

Jose Saramago

Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.

Kevin Spacey

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?

Kevin Bacon

There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.

Joe Vitale

The universe will start to rearrange itself to make it happen for you.

John C. Maxwell

The secret of a person's success is discovered in their daily agenda.

Norton Juster

What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

Emile M. Cioran

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.

Emile M. Cioran

Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.

Eric Schlosser

If the market does indeed embody the sum of all human wishes, then the secret ones are just as important as the ones that are openly displayed,

Emily Bronte

In secret pleasure — secret tears This changeful life has slipped away

Emily Giffin

I've always been intrigued by the power of secrets. When is it justifiable to keep them from the ones we love? And does keeping them irrevocably change who we are?

Elliott Smith

All your secret wishes could right now be coming true.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.

Hayley Williams

I'm secretly afraid of clowns. But it's not a secret now...dang.

Ho Chi Minh

We have a secret weapon...it is called Nationalism

Henry Ford

The secret of success is to understand the viewpoint of others.

Heraclitus

Things keep their secrets.

Henry Cloud

He is the Truth, and He wants us to deal in truth with ourselves and our loved ones. We want the truth about you and your family to flood into and overrun the secrets that keep you in bondage to dysfunctional behavior and relationships

Helena Christensen

Denmark is like a secret little place with its own special language.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.

Jonathan Swift

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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

Napoleon Hill

Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time you choose, and you will have learned the secret passage-way to power and plenty! This is concentration!

Og Mandino

The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity ...and you've got it made.

Og Mandino

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

Norman Mailer

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

Omar Khayyam

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 share.

Oliver Sacks

there are other senses -­ secret senses, sixth senses, if you will -­ equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded.