Secret Quotes
- Page 13The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow is a secret city, with its own history, folklore and mythology. But what has surprised me is the love the people who work there feel for the place. Everyone seems to think they are plugged into something majestic.
Tony Parsons
One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain.
Graham Nash
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Maximilien Robespierre
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
Horace Walpole
The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.
Tony Snow
You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.
Kid Rock
Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.
Ian Hart
If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.
Sidney Sheldon
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
William James
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.
Gustav Heinemann
While I was in jail, they handcuffed me and took me to a backroom, where a detective from the FBI and a Secret Service agent were, and they interrogated me for about three or four hours.
Sherman Austin
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
James Humes
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck
The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
Barry Gibb
It is no secret to anyone that we are going to rule in the most delicate circumstances Spain has faced in 30 years.
Mariano Rajoy
You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
Percy Ross
It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.
Edward Sapir