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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
If a person weren't failing in some way, shape or form, would he or she need to blame, justify, or complain? The obvious answer is no.
The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.
When I first started blogging, I kept it a secret from my friends and then started to show a few people, and it snowballed from there.
Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.
My guideline has always been to avoid a focus on me personally. Not because of any deep, dark secrets. Rather just a sense of privacy.
You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious.
Lips to lips, mouth to mouth, Comes the speaker of the shrouds, Suck in the spirit, speak the words, Let secrets of the dead be heard.
People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room.
The secret to a great Halloween costume, and I can't stress this enough, is in my opinion is to extract sexuality out of your costume.
Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body.
She shrugged another plump shoulder. “I never listened to Porter when he got going.” Ah. At last. The secret to a successful marriage.
Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.
There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.
The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.
I have always had this secret fantasy of being a Bourne girl or Bond girl, and I've never even gotten called in on one of those roles.
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
I must have books everywhere. They're the soul of a room-they reveal the taste, the interests, and the secrets of whoever lives there.
The secret is to try and do 75% of the things you're really passionate about and maybe 25% doing the shitty jobs that have to be done.
I don't fully understand my wife's emotions - and I'm supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?
Finally it may be said that the temple endowment is not secret. All who meet the requirements for entrance to the temple may enjoy it.
I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book down from the shelf.
To have a purpose that is worthwhile, and that is steadily being accomplished, that is one of the secrets of life that is worth living.
Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others.
One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.
There are times, Sember, when I could believe your mother had a secret lover. Looking at you makes me wonder if it was one of my goats.
Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
I used to follow trends and try to do exactly what I saw in the magazines, but I'm not a Victoria's Secret model who can wear anything.
Balance is the secret for every team. There cannot be a defensive formation and an attacking formation: such a concept is a limitation.
The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity in an ocean of emptiness.
That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played.
Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.
I dont know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. Its more than talent and beauty. Maybe its the audience seeing itself in you.
I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.
The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.
It's like the spiders are sharing an ancient secret with me, and that's why I'm going to spend the rest of my life studying spider silk.
The secret is you need a director who refuses to walk away and you need a director willing to put their whole career behind the project.
Whether in commerce, administration, or on the battlefield, leaders who win understand the Secret of Victory: Act first to finish first.
From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself
Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity ...and you've got it made.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.
When one is not slipshod in small matters, not hypocritical in secret, and not reckless in disappointment, only then is one a true hero.
If you have life in you, you have access to the secrets of the ages, for the truth of the universe resides in each and every human being.
What is the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you gain experience? Wrong decisions.