Famous Quotes & Sayings

Voltaire

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Walter Winchell

I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

Keri Russell

I am literally the worst person at keeping secrets. I'd be the worst spy of all time.

Oscar Wilde

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Emily Osment

I'm not so great at keeping secrets; maybe that's why no one ever tells me things.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

Eddie Cantor

All women are natural born espionage agents.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

Miley Cyrus

I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!

Richard Holloway

The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.

Richelle Mead

‎Keep your love, I have no use for it anymore.

Richard Bach

Perspective: use it or lose it.

Truman Capote

I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.

Travis Barker

I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I`m just going to fly them out and let them hang. It`s all good.

Toyo Ito

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

Raymond Chandler

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

William Saroyan

I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.

William Nicholson

Use your power gently.

William Hazlitt

Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words.

Ellen G. White

All our words and acts are passing in review before God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

Terry Tempest Williams

To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.

Joel Osteen

Our words set the direction for our lives.

Carlos Castaneda

Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.

Jane Fonda

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Desmond Tutu

Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.