None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom. . . ' Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery.
I don't do anything or have any magical secret or something, other than drinking baby's blood, of course.
The secret to living long is to have something to live for.
All decays begin in the closet; no heart thrives with out much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it.
Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.
There are no secrets about England - they are searching for positives.
The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness.
In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.
If people stop having secrets they stop having power.
Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.
Think about climbing a mountain. If you decide you're going up Everest, you don't start with a sprint. You'll never make it out of base camp if you do that. The secret is two fold: make sure your approach is consistent and steady so that you can maintain the progress you're making as your journey continues.
We have nothing now between us, save - respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies.
There are some people who cannot help giving. Why? Because they experience a real psychological pleasure in doing so. They don't do it with an eye to their own advantage, they do it on the quiet; they detest doing it openly because that would take away some of the satisfaction. They do it in secret, with quick trembling hands, their breasts rocked by a spiritual well being which they do not themselves understand.
Hard work and training. There's no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best.
Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.
I have no secret but hard work. This is a secret that many never learn, and they don't succeed because they don't learn it. Labor is the genius that changes the world from ugliness to beauty, and the great curse to a great blessing.
Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.
Like sex, poverty and power, suicide may always be with us. But like them again, the actual form is takes is essentially time-specific and culture-bound, not only in the past but in the present too. The people who took their lives, the paths which led them to that end, and the experience of dying in this way were deeply influenced by specific historical circumstances. Only by making a greater effort at historical understanding can this most secret house of death be made to yield up more of its confidences.