Famous Quotes & Sayings

Swami Vivekananda

The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.

Tony Robbins

The secret to a fulfilled life is not only to do well but also to do good.

Peter Beard

Like society, the diary is a world of useless secrets. Everything is there, yet there is nothing.

Peter Agre

Our lab had always refrained from keeping our studies secret.

Paulo Coelho

I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a window, looking out at the world and its secret places, poetry lost in time and words left hanging in space...sentences that are perfectly understood, even when left unspoken. Feelings that simultaneously exalt and suffocate.

Paulo Coelho

My turning point was my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. It was then that I, who had dedicated most of my life to penetrate the 'secrets' of the universe, realized that there are no secrets. Life is and will always be a mystery.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.

Maurice Blanchot

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

Maureen O'Hara

I'm really honestly terrified about how much I should tell and how much I should still keep secret.

Matthew Settle

I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy.

Lysander Spooner

What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

…there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.

John Flavel

Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life.

Joyce Carol Oates

The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect anyone else to perceive in it the emotions you have invested in it. Once this is understood, all will be well.

Joyce Carol Oates

It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.

Kate Atkinson

Sylvia loved secrets and even if she didn't have any secrets she made sure that you thought she did. Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew nothing. When she grew up she planned to know everything and to keep it all a secret.

Judith Martin

everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it.

Peter Matthiessen

How could I say that I wished to penetrate the secrets of the mountains in search of something still unknown that, like the yeti, might well be missed for the very fact of searching?

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.

Phillips Brooks

The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.

Julien Green

I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.

Julian Fellowes

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

Paul Kane

My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good.

Paul Davies

For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.

Paracelsus

Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

Mel Gibson

Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.

Erik Larson

I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.

Emmanuel Petit

I want to keep my own guard, I want to keep my secrets, I want to keep my private life for me.

John Jay Chapman

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.

Leo Tolstoy

Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.

Leon Uris

A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.