Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
- Edward Abbey
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
- Mark Twain
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
- Mark Twain
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
- Mark Twain
The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
- Mark Twain
Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.
- John Abizaid
The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.
- Dean Acheson
Then he called him Maeglin, which is Sharp Glance, for he perceived that the eyes of his son were more piercing than his own, and his thought could read the secrets of hearts beyond the mist of words.
- J R R Tolkien
You cannot pass," he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.
- J R R Tolkien
In my despair my enemy was my only hope, and I pursued him, clutching at his heel. Thus he brought me back at last to the secret ways..
- J R R Tolkien
If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain's son Oakenshield, may your beard grow ever longer," he said crossly, "say so at once and have done!
- J R R Tolkien
Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness.... Evil things did not come into the secret valley of Rivendell.
- J R R Tolkien
and we'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere ... and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.
- Douglas Adams
We'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.
- Douglas Adams
Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'
- Joey Adams
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
- Joseph Addison
I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.
- Lee Child
You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.
- Isabelle Adjani
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
- Aesop
To be inspired - that's the secret.
- Andre Agassi
And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.
- Giovanni Agnelli
Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the secret cause.
- James Joyce
A land not mine, still
forever memorable,
the waters of its ocean
chill and fresh.
Sand on the bottom whiter than chalk,
and the air drunk, like wine,
late sun lays bare
the rosy limbs of the pinetrees.
Sunset in the ethereal waves:
I cannot tell if the day
is ending, or the world, or if
the secret of secrets is inside me again.
- Anna Akhmatova
The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.
- Ayad Akhtar
He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored-for good, I hope.
- Veronica Roth
I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored -- for good, I hope.
- Veronica Roth
In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?' His voice dropped to a whisper. 'But here's the secret: in between, we need others as well.
- Mitch Albom
So, have we solved the secret of happiness?
"I believe so," he said
Are you going to tell me?
"Yes.Ready?"
Ready.
"Be satisfied."
That's it?
"Be greatful."
That's it?
"For what you have.For the love you receive.And for what God has given you."
That's it?
He looked me in the eye.Then he sighed deeply.
"That's it.
- Mitch Albom
The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.
- Mitch Albom
And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
- Mitch Albom
I ask myself: Are Defeats necessary ?
Well,necessary or not, they happen.
When we first begin fighting for our dream, we've no experience and make many mistakes.
The Secret of life, though,is to fall seven times and to get up eight times !
- Paulo Coelho
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
- Paulo Coelho
The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
- Paulo Coelho
But no one can lose sight of what he desires. Even if there are moments when he believes the world and the others are stronger. The secret is this: do not surrender.
- Paulo Coelho
The secret is here in the present. If you pat attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better, Forget about the future and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.
- Paulo Coelho
There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.
- Paulo Coelho
The secret of happiness is to sea all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
- Paulo Coelho
Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.
- Louisa May Alcott
The secret of getting things done is to act!
- Dante Alighieri
And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.
- Dante Alighieri
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
It was the eyes. The secret of love was in the eyes. The way one person looked at another, the way eyes communicated and spoke when the lips never moved.
- Virginia C Andrews
But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime One himself experienced, he alone among the hundreds of thousands. This is why I am continuing my wanderings not to seek another, better doctrine, because I know there is none, but to leave behind all the teachings and all teachers, and either attain my goal alone or die.
- Hermann Hesse
I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.
- Hermann Hesse
Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them... from both the secret voices of the inermost truth had to be attentively perceived.
- Hermann Hesse
I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.
- Frank Sinatra
... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the end of the rainbow. It is after all my rainbow and if I don't do it no one else will...Survival is the secret so you really can't afford to doubt yourself for long because you are all you've got. The only thing to do is to go the limit with it. Exceed.
- Diane Arbus
... I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage - just choose someone you can't live without.
- Lisa Kleypas
Tara and I were fellow survivors, responding
to our wasteland of a childhood in opposite
ways. She feared being alone just as much
as I feared not being alone. It was entirely
possible that time would prove us both
wrong, and the secret of happiness would always
elude us. All I knew for certain was that
the boundary of isolation was the only thing
that had ever kept me safe.
- Lisa Kleypas
Love was the secret behind everything...love was what made vineyards grow and filled the spaces between the stars, and fixed the ground beneath his feet. It didn't matter if you acknowledged it or not. You couldn't stop the motion of the earth or hold back the ocean tides, or break the pull of the moon. You couldn't stop the rain or pull a shade over the sun.
- Lisa Kleypas
Dear Jack,
I love you, too.
And I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage just choose someone you can't live without.
For me, that would be you.
So if you insist on being traditional...
Yes.
Ella
- Lisa Kleypas
The secret to humor is surprise.
- Aristotle
What's so beautiful about girls?" I would implore.
And the secret society of adults would reply with a smirk and wink as if I was merely a boy who couldn't possibly have the mental maturity to comprehend such grown-up concepts as love and bleeding vaginas; "You'll understand someday, James.
- Jake Vander Ark
Seems to me it ain't the world that's so bad but what we're doing to it, and all I'm saying is: see what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love, baby - love. That's the secret.
- Louis Armstrong
You can't stop the future
You can't rewind the past
The only way to learn the secret
...is to press play.
- Jay Asher
Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so
- Gertrude Atherton
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
- Marcus Aurelius
With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She was proved to have been universally mistaken; and she had not quite done nothing for she had done mischief.
- Jane Austen
When a phrase is born, it is both good and bad at the same time. The secret of its success rests in a crux that is barely discernible. One's fingertips must grasp the key, gently warming it. And then the key must be turned once, not twice.
- Isaac Babel
The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts across the Nation offset these unexpected and challenging costs.
- Joe Baca
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.
- Richard Bach
It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.
- David Copperfield
I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.
- David Copperfield
The secret of getting
successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshellin
the clearness of the instructions they receive.
- Robert Baden Powell
...the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
For believe me! the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
- John Burroughs
The secret of happiness is something to do.
- John Burroughs
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
- Lucille Ball
The secret to youth is to fill your mind with beauty! Amen
- Linda Ballou
Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.
- Oscar Wilde
Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
- Oscar Wilde
And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame
- Oscar Wilde
...People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religionthese are the two things that govern us. And yet
- Oscar Wilde
You, who know all the secrets of life, tell me how to charm Sibyl Vane to love me! I want to make Romeo jealous, I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
- Oscar Wilde
The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
- Oscar Wilde
The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.
- Oscar Wilde
An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
- Oscar Wilde
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
- Oscar Wilde
The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
- Oscar Wilde
A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
- Oscar Wilde
She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.
- Oscar Wilde
The secret of survival is a defective imagination.
- John Banville
The secret to a great ice cream, is crunch coat."
I look at him, aghast. "Crunch coat? Oh, Noah darling, you are so wrong. Everyone knows you ruin ice cream by putting crunch coat on it,"
"Crunch coat," Noah says, "is delicious. And besides, I'm supposed to be taking advice from you?"
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"You listen to Lady Gaga.
- Lauren Barnholdt
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
- James M Barrie
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the form of Origin, tastes the ephemeral glue welding us, yearning after the secret of ineluctable evolution, and wonders what this transformation will mean. In my mind, here was the best kind of artthe kind hoarded by rich and jealous collectors in their locked galleries; hidden from the eyes of the heathen masses, waiting to be shared with the ripe few
- Laird Barron
A sculpture of the magnificent shape of God. Oh, admittedly it was a shallow rendering of That Which Cannot Be Named; but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the form of Origin, tastes the ephemeral glue welding us, yearning after the secret of ineluctable evolution, and wonders what this transformation will mean.
- Laird Barron
are memories pictures or the secret doorway?
- Lynda Barry
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
- Bernard Baruch
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.
- Georges Bataille
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.
- Jean Baudrillard
Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.
- Les Baxter
That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.
- Charles M Schulz
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
- Charles M Schulz
Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.
- Peter S Beagle
...I was one of the haves, and one of the secrets of being a have is not wasting your time on empathy.
- Peter S Beagle
The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another
- Elizabeth Bear
The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it... If you're convinced that cooking is drudgery, you're never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.
- James Beard
I'm going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I'm going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just rememberit's always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you're on your own.
- James Beard
All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.
- Lemony Snicket
In the secret pocket, she often kept a small
pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.
- Lemony Snicket
Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.
- Ron Benisrael
Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
- Arnold Bennett
The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.
- Bo Bennett
Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.
- Michael Bergdahl
Smartass Disciple: Master, what is the secret recipe of your happiness?
Master of Stupidity: If I tell you, there is nobody left to be made fun of.
- Toba Beta
The thankful heart and a praying mind
are the revealer of the secrets of beauty.
- Toba Beta
The others have made governments of this earth
keep the secret of their existence.
I would...and perhaps you should.
If you wanna tell world about the secret, they will silence you.
If you don't give shit about the secret, then you just save their expenses.
- Toba Beta
Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
- Ambrose Bierce
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.
- Bernard Meltzer
We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accreted possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty.
- E M Forster
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
- Otto Von Bismarck
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
- Hugo Black
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.
- H P Blavatsky
I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.
- Joan Blondell
The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful. All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret - almost magic.
"Well," said Jack at last. "What do you think? Shall we run away, and live on the secret island?"
"Yes!" whispered all the children.
"Let's!
- Enid Blyton
The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.
- Enid Blyton
Thou knowest that these things which I say are true, and that I was never delighted in my own praise, for the secret of a good conscience is in some sort diminished, when by declaring what he hath done, a man receiveth the reward of fame.
- Boethius
The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.
- W E B Du Bois
The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.
- Roberto Bolano
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.
- George Boole
He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.
- Ray Bradbury
I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.
- Anthony Bourdain
The secret of art is love.
- Antoine Bourdelle
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
- Carl Sandburg
Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
Sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
- Louis D Brandeis
Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset. More than any other element, fun is the secret of Virgin's success. I am aware that the ideas of business as being fun and creative goes right against the grain of convention, and it's certainly not how the they teach it at some of those business schools, where business means hard grind and lots of 'discounted cash flows' and net' present values'.
- Richard Branson
You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen
- Ann Brashares
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
- Salvador Dali
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.
- Dalai Lama
The secret is to know how to lie" he used to say, " and to know when someone's lying to you". His father, Steve eventually decided, must have known how to lie.
- Nicholas Sparks
That's the secret. If you always make sure you're exactly the person you hoped to be, if you always make sure you know only the very best people, then you won't care if you die tomorrow.
- Carol Rifka Brunt
I used to think maybe I wanted to become a falconer, and now I'm sure of it, because I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.
- Carol Rifka Brunt
And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
- Arthur Bryant
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
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
- George Bernard Shaw
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
- George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions--I say the most licentious of human institutions: that is the secret of its popularity.And a woman seeking a husband is the most unscrupulous of all the beasts of prey. The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
- George Bernard Shaw
The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
- George Bernard Shaw
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
- George Bernard Shaw
I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it means to be human.
- Frederick Buechner
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
- Robert Frost
I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.
- Warren Buffett
The secret is writing down one simple line after another.
- Charles Bukowski
I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret.
- Charles Bukowski
You think you want to know the secrets of the universe. You think you want to see the way things all fit together. You believe in your heart of hearts that enlightenment will save the world and set you free.
Maybe it will.
But the path to enlightenment is rarely a pleasant one.
- Neal Shusterman
The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.
- Chuck Palahniuk
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
- Luther Burbank
The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.
- Solomon Burke
And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
- Leo Burnett
The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.
- Leo Burnett
The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.
- Leo Burnett
To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!
- Frances Burney
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
- George Burns
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.
- James Macgregor Burns
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
- Augusten Burroughs
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
- Leo Buscaglia
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein
That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.
- Albert Einstein
Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the descernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.
- Albert Einstein
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
- William Hazlitt
Mine the long night
The secret place
Where lovers meet
In long embrace
In purple dark
In silvered kiss
Forget the world
And grasp your bliss
- A S Byatt
The Secret: Law of Attraction
- Rhonda Byrne
The secret of being boring is to say everything.
- Voltaire
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
- Voltaire
I wondered if parents had an easier time with the secrets their children kept than children did with the secrets of their parents. A parent's secrets seemed like some sort of betrayal, where my own just seemed like a fact of life and growing up and away. I was supposed to be independent, but he was supposed to be available. Him having his own life seemed selfish, where me having my own was the right order of things.
- Deb Caletti
Ellie kept going. You should get one of those headset things that are invisible and stick in your ear. Like the secret service and James Bond and crap like that. I bet you'd look really cool. Get tons of pussy.
- Skyla Dawn Cameron
It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Listen to me," cried Syme with extraordinary emphasis. "Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front -
- Gilbert K Chesterton
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
- Tony Robbins
The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.
- Al Capp
In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement since so many people die early. Yous see an elderly person you want to congratulate them on their longevity, ask the secret of survival.
- Suzanne Collins
This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.
- Jacqueline Carey
The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.
- Stokely Carmichael
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
But the heaviest things, I think, are the secrets. They can drown you if you let them.
- Ally Carter
I know too well how dangerous hope can be, how it grows and sometimes dies, taking its host with it. It's more powerful than anything Dr.Fibs keeps in his labs, more precious than all the secrets inside Sublevel Two.
- Ally Carter
Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.
- Henri Cartierbresson
The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.
- Colin Chapman
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
- Bertrand Russell
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
- Bertrand Russell
William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but when he came to, he had forgotten it. At last, with immense effort, he wrote down the secret before the vision had faded. When completely recovered, he rushed to see what he had written. It was: A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.
- Bertrand Russell
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
- Winston Churchill
Concentration is the secret of strength.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We know the secret of the world is profound, but who or what shall be our interpreter, we know not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Edward Abbey
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
- Mark Twain
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
- Mark Twain
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
- Mark Twain
The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
- Mark Twain
Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.
- John Abizaid
The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.
- Dean Acheson
Then he called him Maeglin, which is Sharp Glance, for he perceived that the eyes of his son were more piercing than his own, and his thought could read the secrets of hearts beyond the mist of words.
- J R R Tolkien
You cannot pass," he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.
- J R R Tolkien
In my despair my enemy was my only hope, and I pursued him, clutching at his heel. Thus he brought me back at last to the secret ways..
- J R R Tolkien
If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain's son Oakenshield, may your beard grow ever longer," he said crossly, "say so at once and have done!
- J R R Tolkien
Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness.... Evil things did not come into the secret valley of Rivendell.
- J R R Tolkien
and we'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere ... and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.
- Douglas Adams
We'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.
- Douglas Adams
Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'
- Joey Adams
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
- Joseph Addison
I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.
- Lee Child
You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.
- Isabelle Adjani
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
- Aesop
To be inspired - that's the secret.
- Andre Agassi
And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.
- Giovanni Agnelli
Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the secret cause.
- James Joyce
A land not mine, still
forever memorable,
the waters of its ocean
chill and fresh.
Sand on the bottom whiter than chalk,
and the air drunk, like wine,
late sun lays bare
the rosy limbs of the pinetrees.
Sunset in the ethereal waves:
I cannot tell if the day
is ending, or the world, or if
the secret of secrets is inside me again.
- Anna Akhmatova
The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.
- Ayad Akhtar
He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored-for good, I hope.
- Veronica Roth
I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored -- for good, I hope.
- Veronica Roth
In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?' His voice dropped to a whisper. 'But here's the secret: in between, we need others as well.
- Mitch Albom
So, have we solved the secret of happiness?
"I believe so," he said
Are you going to tell me?
"Yes.Ready?"
Ready.
"Be satisfied."
That's it?
"Be greatful."
That's it?
"For what you have.For the love you receive.And for what God has given you."
That's it?
He looked me in the eye.Then he sighed deeply.
"That's it.
- Mitch Albom
The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.
- Mitch Albom
And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
- Mitch Albom
I ask myself: Are Defeats necessary ?
Well,necessary or not, they happen.
When we first begin fighting for our dream, we've no experience and make many mistakes.
The Secret of life, though,is to fall seven times and to get up eight times !
- Paulo Coelho
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
- Paulo Coelho
The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
- Paulo Coelho
But no one can lose sight of what he desires. Even if there are moments when he believes the world and the others are stronger. The secret is this: do not surrender.
- Paulo Coelho
The secret is here in the present. If you pat attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better, Forget about the future and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.
- Paulo Coelho
There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.
- Paulo Coelho
The secret of happiness is to sea all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
- Paulo Coelho
Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.
- Louisa May Alcott
The secret of getting things done is to act!
- Dante Alighieri
And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.
- Dante Alighieri
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
It was the eyes. The secret of love was in the eyes. The way one person looked at another, the way eyes communicated and spoke when the lips never moved.
- Virginia C Andrews
But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime One himself experienced, he alone among the hundreds of thousands. This is why I am continuing my wanderings not to seek another, better doctrine, because I know there is none, but to leave behind all the teachings and all teachers, and either attain my goal alone or die.
- Hermann Hesse
I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.
- Hermann Hesse
Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them... from both the secret voices of the inermost truth had to be attentively perceived.
- Hermann Hesse
I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.
- Frank Sinatra
... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the end of the rainbow. It is after all my rainbow and if I don't do it no one else will...Survival is the secret so you really can't afford to doubt yourself for long because you are all you've got. The only thing to do is to go the limit with it. Exceed.
- Diane Arbus
... I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage - just choose someone you can't live without.
- Lisa Kleypas
Tara and I were fellow survivors, responding
to our wasteland of a childhood in opposite
ways. She feared being alone just as much
as I feared not being alone. It was entirely
possible that time would prove us both
wrong, and the secret of happiness would always
elude us. All I knew for certain was that
the boundary of isolation was the only thing
that had ever kept me safe.
- Lisa Kleypas
Love was the secret behind everything...love was what made vineyards grow and filled the spaces between the stars, and fixed the ground beneath his feet. It didn't matter if you acknowledged it or not. You couldn't stop the motion of the earth or hold back the ocean tides, or break the pull of the moon. You couldn't stop the rain or pull a shade over the sun.
- Lisa Kleypas
Dear Jack,
I love you, too.
And I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage just choose someone you can't live without.
For me, that would be you.
So if you insist on being traditional...
Yes.
Ella
- Lisa Kleypas
The secret to humor is surprise.
- Aristotle
What's so beautiful about girls?" I would implore.
And the secret society of adults would reply with a smirk and wink as if I was merely a boy who couldn't possibly have the mental maturity to comprehend such grown-up concepts as love and bleeding vaginas; "You'll understand someday, James.
- Jake Vander Ark
Seems to me it ain't the world that's so bad but what we're doing to it, and all I'm saying is: see what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love, baby - love. That's the secret.
- Louis Armstrong
You can't stop the future
You can't rewind the past
The only way to learn the secret
...is to press play.
- Jay Asher
Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so
- Gertrude Atherton
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
- Marcus Aurelius
With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She was proved to have been universally mistaken; and she had not quite done nothing for she had done mischief.
- Jane Austen
When a phrase is born, it is both good and bad at the same time. The secret of its success rests in a crux that is barely discernible. One's fingertips must grasp the key, gently warming it. And then the key must be turned once, not twice.
- Isaac Babel
The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts across the Nation offset these unexpected and challenging costs.
- Joe Baca
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.
- Richard Bach
It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.
- David Copperfield
I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.
- David Copperfield
The secret of getting
successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshellin
the clearness of the instructions they receive.
- Robert Baden Powell
...the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
For believe me! the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
- John Burroughs
The secret of happiness is something to do.
- John Burroughs
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
- Lucille Ball
The secret to youth is to fill your mind with beauty! Amen
- Linda Ballou
Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.
- Oscar Wilde
Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
- Oscar Wilde
And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame
- Oscar Wilde
...People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religionthese are the two things that govern us. And yet
- Oscar Wilde
You, who know all the secrets of life, tell me how to charm Sibyl Vane to love me! I want to make Romeo jealous, I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
- Oscar Wilde
The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
- Oscar Wilde
The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.
- Oscar Wilde
An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
- Oscar Wilde
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
- Oscar Wilde
The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
- Oscar Wilde
A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
- Oscar Wilde
She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.
- Oscar Wilde
The secret of survival is a defective imagination.
- John Banville
The secret to a great ice cream, is crunch coat."
I look at him, aghast. "Crunch coat? Oh, Noah darling, you are so wrong. Everyone knows you ruin ice cream by putting crunch coat on it,"
"Crunch coat," Noah says, "is delicious. And besides, I'm supposed to be taking advice from you?"
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"You listen to Lady Gaga.
- Lauren Barnholdt
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
- James M Barrie
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the form of Origin, tastes the ephemeral glue welding us, yearning after the secret of ineluctable evolution, and wonders what this transformation will mean. In my mind, here was the best kind of artthe kind hoarded by rich and jealous collectors in their locked galleries; hidden from the eyes of the heathen masses, waiting to be shared with the ripe few
- Laird Barron
A sculpture of the magnificent shape of God. Oh, admittedly it was a shallow rendering of That Which Cannot Be Named; but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the form of Origin, tastes the ephemeral glue welding us, yearning after the secret of ineluctable evolution, and wonders what this transformation will mean.
- Laird Barron
are memories pictures or the secret doorway?
- Lynda Barry
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
- Bernard Baruch
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.
- Georges Bataille
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.
- Jean Baudrillard
Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.
- Les Baxter
That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.
- Charles M Schulz
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
- Charles M Schulz
Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.
- Peter S Beagle
...I was one of the haves, and one of the secrets of being a have is not wasting your time on empathy.
- Peter S Beagle
The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another
- Elizabeth Bear
The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it... If you're convinced that cooking is drudgery, you're never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.
- James Beard
I'm going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I'm going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just rememberit's always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you're on your own.
- James Beard
All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.
- Lemony Snicket
In the secret pocket, she often kept a small
pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.
- Lemony Snicket
Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.
- Ron Benisrael
Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
- Arnold Bennett
The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.
- Bo Bennett
Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.
- Michael Bergdahl
Smartass Disciple: Master, what is the secret recipe of your happiness?
Master of Stupidity: If I tell you, there is nobody left to be made fun of.
- Toba Beta
The thankful heart and a praying mind
are the revealer of the secrets of beauty.
- Toba Beta
The others have made governments of this earth
keep the secret of their existence.
I would...and perhaps you should.
If you wanna tell world about the secret, they will silence you.
If you don't give shit about the secret, then you just save their expenses.
- Toba Beta
Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
- Ambrose Bierce
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.
- Bernard Meltzer
We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accreted possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty.
- E M Forster
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
- Otto Von Bismarck
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
- Hugo Black
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.
- H P Blavatsky
I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.
- Joan Blondell
The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful. All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret - almost magic.
"Well," said Jack at last. "What do you think? Shall we run away, and live on the secret island?"
"Yes!" whispered all the children.
"Let's!
- Enid Blyton
The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.
- Enid Blyton
Thou knowest that these things which I say are true, and that I was never delighted in my own praise, for the secret of a good conscience is in some sort diminished, when by declaring what he hath done, a man receiveth the reward of fame.
- Boethius
The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.
- W E B Du Bois
The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.
- Roberto Bolano
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.
- George Boole
He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.
- Ray Bradbury
I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.
- Anthony Bourdain
The secret of art is love.
- Antoine Bourdelle
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
- Carl Sandburg
Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
Sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
- Louis D Brandeis
Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset. More than any other element, fun is the secret of Virgin's success. I am aware that the ideas of business as being fun and creative goes right against the grain of convention, and it's certainly not how the they teach it at some of those business schools, where business means hard grind and lots of 'discounted cash flows' and net' present values'.
- Richard Branson
You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen
- Ann Brashares
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
- Salvador Dali
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.
- Dalai Lama
The secret is to know how to lie" he used to say, " and to know when someone's lying to you". His father, Steve eventually decided, must have known how to lie.
- Nicholas Sparks
That's the secret. If you always make sure you're exactly the person you hoped to be, if you always make sure you know only the very best people, then you won't care if you die tomorrow.
- Carol Rifka Brunt
I used to think maybe I wanted to become a falconer, and now I'm sure of it, because I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.
- Carol Rifka Brunt
And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
- Arthur Bryant
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
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
- George Bernard Shaw
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
- George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions--I say the most licentious of human institutions: that is the secret of its popularity.And a woman seeking a husband is the most unscrupulous of all the beasts of prey. The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
- George Bernard Shaw
The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
- George Bernard Shaw
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
- George Bernard Shaw
I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it means to be human.
- Frederick Buechner
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
- Robert Frost
I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.
- Warren Buffett
The secret is writing down one simple line after another.
- Charles Bukowski
I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret.
- Charles Bukowski
You think you want to know the secrets of the universe. You think you want to see the way things all fit together. You believe in your heart of hearts that enlightenment will save the world and set you free.
Maybe it will.
But the path to enlightenment is rarely a pleasant one.
- Neal Shusterman
The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.
- Chuck Palahniuk
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
- Luther Burbank
The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.
- Solomon Burke
And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
- Leo Burnett
The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.
- Leo Burnett
The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.
- Leo Burnett
To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!
- Frances Burney
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
- George Burns
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.
- James Macgregor Burns
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
- Augusten Burroughs
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
- Leo Buscaglia
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein
That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.
- Albert Einstein
Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the descernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.
- Albert Einstein
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
- William Hazlitt
Mine the long night
The secret place
Where lovers meet
In long embrace
In purple dark
In silvered kiss
Forget the world
And grasp your bliss
- A S Byatt
The Secret: Law of Attraction
- Rhonda Byrne
The secret of being boring is to say everything.
- Voltaire
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
- Voltaire
I wondered if parents had an easier time with the secrets their children kept than children did with the secrets of their parents. A parent's secrets seemed like some sort of betrayal, where my own just seemed like a fact of life and growing up and away. I was supposed to be independent, but he was supposed to be available. Him having his own life seemed selfish, where me having my own was the right order of things.
- Deb Caletti
Ellie kept going. You should get one of those headset things that are invisible and stick in your ear. Like the secret service and James Bond and crap like that. I bet you'd look really cool. Get tons of pussy.
- Skyla Dawn Cameron
It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Listen to me," cried Syme with extraordinary emphasis. "Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front -
- Gilbert K Chesterton
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
- Tony Robbins
The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.
- Al Capp
In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement since so many people die early. Yous see an elderly person you want to congratulate them on their longevity, ask the secret of survival.
- Suzanne Collins
This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.
- Jacqueline Carey
The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.
- Stokely Carmichael
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
But the heaviest things, I think, are the secrets. They can drown you if you let them.
- Ally Carter
I know too well how dangerous hope can be, how it grows and sometimes dies, taking its host with it. It's more powerful than anything Dr.Fibs keeps in his labs, more precious than all the secrets inside Sublevel Two.
- Ally Carter
Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.
- Henri Cartierbresson
The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.
- Colin Chapman
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
- Bertrand Russell
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
- Bertrand Russell
William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but when he came to, he had forgotten it. At last, with immense effort, he wrote down the secret before the vision had faded. When completely recovered, he rushed to see what he had written. It was: A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.
- Bertrand Russell
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
- Winston Churchill
Concentration is the secret of strength.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We know the secret of the world is profound, but who or what shall be our interpreter, we know not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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