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
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
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
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
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
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
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
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
- Bernard Baruch
...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
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
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
The thankful heart and a praying mind
are the revealer of the secrets of beauty.
- Toba Beta
Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
- Ambrose Bierce
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
- Hugo Black
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
- George Bernard Shaw
The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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
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
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
- Winston Churchill
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.
- Julia Child
I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to the skillet, the apple charlotte slowly collapsing. One of the secrets of cooking is to learn to correct something if you can, and bear with it if you cannot.
- Julia Child
I want to take back the secrets I told you so I can decide now whether to tell them to you again. I want to take back the piece of me that lies in you, to see if I truly miss it. I want to take back at least half the "I love you"s, because it feels safer that way.
- David Levithan
Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
- Walt Disney Company
may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living
- E E Cummings
Heaven has mercifully decreed that the secrets of all hearts are hidden so that we are lured on for ever to suspect something, perhaps, that does not exist.
- Virginia Woolf
I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets they've been told or haven't been told. They're talking about intimate things, family things, love things," that nice old lady said to me. "Mr. Hoenikker had all those things in his life, the way every living person has to, but they weren't the main things with him.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Meditation is holy to me, for I believe that all the secrets of existence and nonexistence are somewhere in our heads - or in other people's heads. And I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.
- Kurt Vonnegut
She had always been this way: interested-quite unnecessarily, some would say-in the secrets of strangers. When flying, she always chose a window seat so that when the plane took off or landed, she could look down on the tiny houses and imagine the lives of the people who inhabited them.
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
DNA tells you all the secrets of life,' he used to say. Except for onehow to live it.
- Jennifer Donnelly
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.
- Mary Shelley
I confess that neither the structure of language, nor the code of governments, nor the politics of various states possessed attractions for me. It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.
- Mary Shelley
Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.
- Kim Edwards
I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.
- Richard Ernst
Gregori made certain she wanted to fight. He whispered to her in his most beguiling voice, promised a fascinating future, lured her with the secrets and beauty of the universe awaiting her. He promised she would never be left alone; he would be there to guide her, to protect her, to see to her happiness.
- Christine Feehan
Now that part of his head which nature designed for the reservoir of drink being very shallow, a small quantity of liquor overflowed it and opened the sluices of his heart, so that all the secrets there deposited run out.
- Henry Fielding
their eager eyes unlocking the secrets of the human form. who could just look at it as it is, without prettying it up or emphasizing its awfulness
- Janet Fitch
Language, at least, may give up the secrets of life and death, leading us through the maze to the original Word as monster or angel, to the mournful place where we may meet Job and hear his cry, 'How long will you vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?
- Janet Frame
Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets?
- Cornelia Funke
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.
- Kahlil Gibran
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
- Kahlil Gibran
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.
- Kahlil Gibran
Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
- L Wolfe Gilbert
I have always been a romantic; one of those who believes that a woman in pink circus tights holds all the secrets of the world.
- Tom Robbins
He was afraid that the secrets she'd kept would always be here, inside him, an ugly malignant thing lodged near enough to his heart to upset its rhythm, and though it could be removed, cut out, there would always be scars; bits and pieces of it would remain in his blood, making it wrong somehow, so that if he accidentally sliced his skin open, his blood would--for one heartbeat--flow as black as India ink before it remembered that it should be red.
- Kristin Hannah
I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.
- Zahi Hawass
Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive.
- J K Rowling
I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.
- Christopher Hitchens
Meccano gives boys the secrets of the world's wonderful engineering structures.
- Frank Hornby
Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might be given some information no one else had.
- Silas House
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
- Harriet Ann Jacobs
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
- St Jerome
Last night the secrets of the universe were revealed to me, and they had nipples.
- Jarod Kintz
A brick could be used as a hammer. A brick could be both a tool and a building material in the construction of a mansion. That's like having an engineer design secret tunnels in your palace, and then burying him in the foundation's cement, to strengthen the integrity of the structure, and also ensure his integrity on the matter of secrecy by burying the secrets to the fortress along with his corpse.
- Jarod Kintz
I know the secrets; I dig Joyce and Proust above Melville and Celine.
- Jack Kerouac
Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear the most. The secrets of why love is difficult, sex complicated, living painful and death so close and yet placed far away. Why are pleasure and punishment closely related? How do our bodies speak? Why do we make ourselves ill? Why do you want to fail? Why is pleasure hard to bear?
- Hanif Kureishi
Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that might lie behind his yellow eyes.
- H P Lovecraft
...thinking that the world was like an orange, that I could split it open with my thumbnail and find a whole different world, the grown-up world, the secrets beneath the skin.
- Jennifer Weiner
Be still
Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity
- Lao Tzu
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
- Cormac Mccarthy
Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with:
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Here lies Saadat Hasan Manto and with him lie buried all the secrets and mysteries of the art of short-story writing....
Under tons of earth he lies, still wondering who among the two is greater short-story writer: God or He.
- Saadat Hasan Manto
I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If you think you know all the secrets, you think you know all the cures.
- Colum Mccann
We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature.
- Dmitri Mendeleev
Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
- Dan Millman
I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street.
- Max Muller
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.
- Iris Murdoch
The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.
- Howard Nemerov
For a few moments, the secrets of the universe are opened to us. Life is a cheap parlor trick. That's the miserable truth.
- Jonathan Nolan
Shy Carmen, always hanging back from the others, who knew she could smile? But at the sight of that smile he would have promised her anything. He was just barely awake. Or maybe he was not awake at all. Had he wanted her and not known it? Had he wanted her so much that he dreamed she was lying beside him now? The things our minds keep from us, Gen thought. The secrets we keep even from ourselves.
- Ann Patchett
It's interesting, the secrets you decide to reveal at the end of your life.
- Randy Pausch
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
- William Lyon Phelps
An exceedingly well-informed report,' said the General. 'You have given yourself the trouble to go into matters thoroughly, I see. That is one of the secrets of success in life.
- Anthony Powell
The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them (pg. 52).
- Ayn Rand
The secrets of this th are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them.
- Ayn Rand
Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.
- Amit Ray
Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry.
- Charles Taze Russell
The secrets of survivors are not easily surrendered. They are locked away behind barricaded doors and accessed at great risk to those who possess them.
- Daniel Silva
There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.
- Robin Sloan
Parker sat on the opposite end of the couch, distracted by thoughts of the coming year and all the secrets it kept from her.
- Abby Slovin
Foreign lands never yield their secrets to a traveller. The best they offer are tantalising snippets, just enough to inflame the imagination. The secrets they do reveal are your own - the ones you have kept from yourself. And this is reason enough to travel, to leave home.
- Graeme Sparkes
If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
- Nikola Tesla
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
- John Updike
Of all the secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood the most divine was humor.
- Rebecca Wells
When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope.
- P G Wodehouse
The Creator has I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the true scientist refuses to be baffled by superficial appearances in detecting the secrets of Nature. The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.
- Israel Zangwill
- J R R Tolkien
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
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
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
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
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
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
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
- Bernard Baruch
...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
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
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
The thankful heart and a praying mind
are the revealer of the secrets of beauty.
- Toba Beta
Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
- Ambrose Bierce
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
- Hugo Black
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
- George Bernard Shaw
The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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
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
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
- Winston Churchill
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.
- Julia Child
I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to the skillet, the apple charlotte slowly collapsing. One of the secrets of cooking is to learn to correct something if you can, and bear with it if you cannot.
- Julia Child
I want to take back the secrets I told you so I can decide now whether to tell them to you again. I want to take back the piece of me that lies in you, to see if I truly miss it. I want to take back at least half the "I love you"s, because it feels safer that way.
- David Levithan
Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
- Walt Disney Company
may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living
- E E Cummings
Heaven has mercifully decreed that the secrets of all hearts are hidden so that we are lured on for ever to suspect something, perhaps, that does not exist.
- Virginia Woolf
I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets they've been told or haven't been told. They're talking about intimate things, family things, love things," that nice old lady said to me. "Mr. Hoenikker had all those things in his life, the way every living person has to, but they weren't the main things with him.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Meditation is holy to me, for I believe that all the secrets of existence and nonexistence are somewhere in our heads - or in other people's heads. And I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.
- Kurt Vonnegut
She had always been this way: interested-quite unnecessarily, some would say-in the secrets of strangers. When flying, she always chose a window seat so that when the plane took off or landed, she could look down on the tiny houses and imagine the lives of the people who inhabited them.
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
DNA tells you all the secrets of life,' he used to say. Except for onehow to live it.
- Jennifer Donnelly
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.
- Mary Shelley
I confess that neither the structure of language, nor the code of governments, nor the politics of various states possessed attractions for me. It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.
- Mary Shelley
Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.
- Kim Edwards
I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.
- Richard Ernst
Gregori made certain she wanted to fight. He whispered to her in his most beguiling voice, promised a fascinating future, lured her with the secrets and beauty of the universe awaiting her. He promised she would never be left alone; he would be there to guide her, to protect her, to see to her happiness.
- Christine Feehan
Now that part of his head which nature designed for the reservoir of drink being very shallow, a small quantity of liquor overflowed it and opened the sluices of his heart, so that all the secrets there deposited run out.
- Henry Fielding
their eager eyes unlocking the secrets of the human form. who could just look at it as it is, without prettying it up or emphasizing its awfulness
- Janet Fitch
Language, at least, may give up the secrets of life and death, leading us through the maze to the original Word as monster or angel, to the mournful place where we may meet Job and hear his cry, 'How long will you vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?
- Janet Frame
Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets?
- Cornelia Funke
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.
- Kahlil Gibran
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
- Kahlil Gibran
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.
- Kahlil Gibran
Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
- L Wolfe Gilbert
I have always been a romantic; one of those who believes that a woman in pink circus tights holds all the secrets of the world.
- Tom Robbins
He was afraid that the secrets she'd kept would always be here, inside him, an ugly malignant thing lodged near enough to his heart to upset its rhythm, and though it could be removed, cut out, there would always be scars; bits and pieces of it would remain in his blood, making it wrong somehow, so that if he accidentally sliced his skin open, his blood would--for one heartbeat--flow as black as India ink before it remembered that it should be red.
- Kristin Hannah
I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.
- Zahi Hawass
Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive.
- J K Rowling
I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.
- Christopher Hitchens
Meccano gives boys the secrets of the world's wonderful engineering structures.
- Frank Hornby
Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might be given some information no one else had.
- Silas House
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
- Harriet Ann Jacobs
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
- St Jerome
Last night the secrets of the universe were revealed to me, and they had nipples.
- Jarod Kintz
A brick could be used as a hammer. A brick could be both a tool and a building material in the construction of a mansion. That's like having an engineer design secret tunnels in your palace, and then burying him in the foundation's cement, to strengthen the integrity of the structure, and also ensure his integrity on the matter of secrecy by burying the secrets to the fortress along with his corpse.
- Jarod Kintz
I know the secrets; I dig Joyce and Proust above Melville and Celine.
- Jack Kerouac
Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear the most. The secrets of why love is difficult, sex complicated, living painful and death so close and yet placed far away. Why are pleasure and punishment closely related? How do our bodies speak? Why do we make ourselves ill? Why do you want to fail? Why is pleasure hard to bear?
- Hanif Kureishi
Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that might lie behind his yellow eyes.
- H P Lovecraft
...thinking that the world was like an orange, that I could split it open with my thumbnail and find a whole different world, the grown-up world, the secrets beneath the skin.
- Jennifer Weiner
Be still
Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity
- Lao Tzu
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
- Cormac Mccarthy
Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with:
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Here lies Saadat Hasan Manto and with him lie buried all the secrets and mysteries of the art of short-story writing....
Under tons of earth he lies, still wondering who among the two is greater short-story writer: God or He.
- Saadat Hasan Manto
I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If you think you know all the secrets, you think you know all the cures.
- Colum Mccann
We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature.
- Dmitri Mendeleev
Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
- Dan Millman
I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street.
- Max Muller
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.
- Iris Murdoch
The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.
- Howard Nemerov
For a few moments, the secrets of the universe are opened to us. Life is a cheap parlor trick. That's the miserable truth.
- Jonathan Nolan
Shy Carmen, always hanging back from the others, who knew she could smile? But at the sight of that smile he would have promised her anything. He was just barely awake. Or maybe he was not awake at all. Had he wanted her and not known it? Had he wanted her so much that he dreamed she was lying beside him now? The things our minds keep from us, Gen thought. The secrets we keep even from ourselves.
- Ann Patchett
It's interesting, the secrets you decide to reveal at the end of your life.
- Randy Pausch
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
- William Lyon Phelps
An exceedingly well-informed report,' said the General. 'You have given yourself the trouble to go into matters thoroughly, I see. That is one of the secrets of success in life.
- Anthony Powell
The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them (pg. 52).
- Ayn Rand
The secrets of this th are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them.
- Ayn Rand
Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.
- Amit Ray
Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry.
- Charles Taze Russell
The secrets of survivors are not easily surrendered. They are locked away behind barricaded doors and accessed at great risk to those who possess them.
- Daniel Silva
There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.
- Robin Sloan
Parker sat on the opposite end of the couch, distracted by thoughts of the coming year and all the secrets it kept from her.
- Abby Slovin
Foreign lands never yield their secrets to a traveller. The best they offer are tantalising snippets, just enough to inflame the imagination. The secrets they do reveal are your own - the ones you have kept from yourself. And this is reason enough to travel, to leave home.
- Graeme Sparkes
If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
- Nikola Tesla
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
- John Updike
Of all the secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood the most divine was humor.
- Rebecca Wells
When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope.
- P G Wodehouse
The Creator has I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the true scientist refuses to be baffled by superficial appearances in detecting the secrets of Nature. The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.
- Israel Zangwill
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