Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean de La Fontaine

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

Jean de La Fontaine

Nothing weighs more than a secret.

Goodman Ace

I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you can't recall it, forget it).

Giulio Andreotti

I have some state secrets I will take with me to paradise.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

Halle Berry

After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?

Ian Anderson

Question all as to their ways and learn the secrets that they hold

Hugh Prather

Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.

Horace

If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.

Hannah Arendt

It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the old adage"There is no alternative to victory" retains a high degree of plausibility.

Guy Finley

Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.

Gore Vidal

When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'

Harvey Weinstein

The secret of making movies is having the strongest possible script.

Jack White

The secret is planning your work and working your plan. If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you arrive? You can't stumble upon your destination.

Jessica Tandy

I found out what the secret to life is - friends. Best friends.

Gillian Anderson

There's a big part of me that would love to be a secret agent. But if I showed up to do an investigation and interrogate someone now, they wouldn't be able to take me seriously. I've ruined that for myself.

Frank Herbert

There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.

Jessica Alba

The secret to using power is not to use it. Just having it is enough.

Honore de Balzac

Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

Iris Murdoch

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.

Idries Shah

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

Gregory Maguire

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

Gloria Vanderbilt

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The world needs divine power in every human being the recognition of which is the secret to all success and happiness

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.

Ian Fleming

He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.

J. K. Rowling

Oh, get out of the way, Percy,” said Fred. “Harry’s in a hurry.” “Yeah, he’s off to the Chamber of Secrets for a cup of tea with his fanged servant,” said George, chortling.

J. K. Rowling

Oh, it can't be a reference to the fact Harry's a great Seeker, that's way too obvious. There must be a secret message from Dumbledore hidden in the icing!

H. L. Mencken

The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.

Gary Gygax

The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.

Jerry Bridges

This is the secret of being content: To learn and accept that we live daily by God's unmerited favor given through Christ, and that we can respond to any and every situation by His divine enablement through the Holy Spirit.