Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jenna Morasca

You forge different bonds with friends than with family, tell different secrets.

Anna Pavlova

To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.

Alexander Smith

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

A. J. McLean

I'm not good at secrets, so don't tell me any.

A. E. Waite

Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface.

Agatha Christie

It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

Agatha Christie

It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.

Adriana Trigiani

Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.

Adriana Trigiani

It's the secret to happiness, you know. Only take what you need.

Adam Smith

All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.

Adam Smith

A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company has the same effect as a secret in trade or manufactures. The monopolists, by keeping the market constantly understocked, by never fully supplying the effectual demand, sell their commodities much above the natural price, and raise their emoluments, whether they consist in wages or profit, greatly above their natural rate.

Adam Smith

Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.

Adam Gopnik

All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.

Theodore White

To know everything there is to know about one subject is the secret of happiness.

Benjamin Franklin

Three can keep a secret if two are dead.

A lot of us are secretly scared, for whatever reason, and so we get in our own way. But if you really want something, you have to ask for it.

Curtis Sittenfeld

She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse to suppress them. I always thought I wanted to know a secret, or I wanted an event to unfold – I wanted my life to start – but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.

Cyndi Lauper

Secrets stolen from deep inside....the drum beats out of time

David Byrne

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

David Levithan

It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.

David Eddings

As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.

Dario Argento

Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.

Billy Graham

Spend more time in study and prayer. That's the secret of successful evangelism.

Aaliyah

The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.

Colin Farrell

Her Majesty's Secret Service wouldn't have me on the payroll.

Dante Alighieri

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Kurt Vonnegut

That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.