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Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.
Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.
Do you think I just turn my secrets out for everyone?" He is unfazed. "I didn't know they were secrets," he says. "Or I wouldn't have asked.
I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.
Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound.
There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.
There is always something we can be concerned about. The secret is to rise above it and do whatever we can to make the world a better place.
She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty.
What dark secrets do you keep hidden from the world? Where would you go if no one could find you? What would you do if no one could see you?
The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny.
The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.
Two things are easiest to do. One, to carry water in a sieve. Two, to still the mind. Freeze water. Breathe calm. Only two secrets to learn.
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well-sustained attention, firmly and repeatedly focused on the object to be accomplished.
You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels
Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets -- 'piccoli segreti' -- that are simmering on the burners.
If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.
I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.
I have a secret passion for horse riding. I haven't done it for ages, but I used to have a horse. I love it; it's one of my favourite things.
Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.
The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.
I also have experience working with American producer Roger Corman who knows a lot of secrets in making movies look bigger than their budget.
I never really told anybody that I'm a rapper. I wasn't walking around being like, "Yo, check out my mixtape!" It was more of a secret grind.
I wanted so badly to tell him, but something about that entire night seemed so beautiful, so bizarre, that I didn't trust it with my secrets.
Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.
All of us are born with certain gifts, and the secret to success is figuring out what your gift is and using it in a way that benefits others.
Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.
The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.
You have to gather your energy together...conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of your purpose.
The secret of my success over the 400m is that I run the first 200m as fast as I can. Then, for the second 200m, with God's help I run faster.
The time for lies and secrets is over," she meowed. "The truth must come out. Starclan was wrong not to tell you who you were a long time ago.
I understand why a lot of women want to dress hipster. But I grew up sneaking my mom's Victoria's Secrets...so I could look at the hot chicks!
The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions.
I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.
It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
For everyone, well-being is a journey. The secret is committing to that journey and taking those first steps with hope and belief in yourself.
We know hackers steal people's identities and infiltrate private e-mails. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets.
If the market does indeed embody the sum of all human wishes, then the secret ones are just as important as the ones that are openly displayed.
There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker.
The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of Nature.
I think that the photos that we like were made when the photographer knew how to disappear. If there were a secret, certainly that would be it.
However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.