Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elie Wiesel

We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.

Bernard Williams

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

David Icke

One of the most important secret societies of the 20th century is called the Round Table. It is based in Britain with branches across the world. It is the Round Table that ultimately orchestrates the network of the Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

David Hume

We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable.

David Brooks

It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.

Edwin Way Teale

Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you, when you walk in a crowd.

Edwin Land

One of the best ways to keep a great secret is to shout it.

Benjamin Franklin

By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources

Benjamin Franklin

To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy discontents be thy secrets

Benjamin Franklin

If you have a secret and tell someone everyone will know. You can only keep a secret if you don't tell anyone.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.

Ariana Richards

Like the Impressionists, I enjoy the effects of light, and especially natural light on the figure. If I could, I would take each viewer along to my favorite places along the seacoasts or in the mountains to the secret places of nature.

Anthony Trollope

The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.

Diane Arbus

Shoot for the secrets, develop for the surprises

Diana Wynne Jones

There is very seldom any true secret.

Demetri Martin

I'm so secretive that when someone asks me, Hey, can you keep a secret? I say That's none of your business.

Daniel Ellsberg

I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.

Daniel Handler

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

Daniel Handler

In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.

Daniel Handler

Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.

Daniel Handler

There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.

Daniel Handler

It was a secret time and place, you next to me, untraceable and out of this world

Dana Carvey

While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I've found the secret of happiness, total disregard of everybody.

Arthur Helps

Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.

Miley Cyrus

I don't keep secrets because I'm no good at them!

Charles Bukowski

I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret.

Brian Andreas

If there is any secret to this life I live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can & there is nothing more to it than that.

Boyd Rice

I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I've always been honest, open, and upfront

Juvenal

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

Deidre Hall

I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life.