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 e...

It makes you realize how basically everything we do comes down to a) mating or b) competing for resources. It's just like Animal Planet, only we've got Cover Girl and Victoria's Secret instead of colored feathers and fancy markings, and the violence occurs at the Nordstrom's Half-Yearly Sale. - Deb Caletti Being a Victoria's Secret model, which was always my dream. - Heidi Klum The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000. - Heidi Klum And mortal terror in a female was Z's favorite turn-on. He got off on it like most males favored crap from Victoria's Secret. - J R Ward

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. - John F Kennedy My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot. - Dan Brown The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans. - Benjamin Disraeli Most secret societiesat least those you can read about in books or on the Internetare collegiate. Or adult... They are like fraternities, only they don't have houses or public identities. In colleges, their members are usually local, not national, but the adult ones tend to be more serious and on a larger scale. We don't actually know what they do. Because they'r...

The gift from my Secret Santa wasn't anything special. That makes me sad. I bet you anything that Mary Elizabeth is my Secret Santa because only she would give me socks. - Stephen Chbosky

I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a window, looking out at the world and its secret places, poetry lost in time and words left hanging in space...sentences that are perfectly understood, even when left unspoken. Feelings that simultaneously exalt and suffocate. - Paulo Coelho 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 grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to. - Gillian Flynn There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you c...

I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a window, looking out at the world and its secret places, poetry lost in time and words left hanging in space...sentences that are perfectly understood, even when left unspoken. Feelings that simultaneously exalt and suffocate. - Paulo Coelho If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you. - Lisa Kleypas 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 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 Her eyes burned, her muscles ached, but in some strange and secret place, she was happy to finally be doing something that wasn...

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message. - Stephen King Oh, it can't be a reference to the fact Harry's a great Seeker, that's way to obvious. There must be a secret message from Dumbledore hidden in the icing! - J K Rowling There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience. - Amy Lee In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques. - Art Linkletter

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent. - Thornton Wilder Everything was fine, but Weetzie wanted a baby. "How could you want one?" My Secret Agent Lover Man said. "There are way too many babies. And diseases. And nuclear accidents. And crazy psychos. We cant have a baby," he said. - Francesca Lia Block Weetzie and My Secret Agent Lover Man and Dirk and Duck and Cherokee and Witch Baby and Slinkster Dog and Go-Go Girl and the puppies Pee Wee, Wee Wee, Teenie Wee, Tiki Tee, and Tee Pee were driving down Hollywood Boulevard on their way to the Tick Tock Tea Room for turkey platters. - Francesca Lia Block I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. - David Byrne Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations. - Sun Tzu He was...

There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises kept and abandoned, sins committed and imagined, and raw emotion. How many of us are ready to have our lives judged? What would happen if we were found wanting? - Ilona Andrews The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work. - Oprah Winfrey My past is no secret to anyone. I'm a blackguard and a sinner, and everyone knows it. These days, that's almost an asset to being a politician. - Jennifer Ashley Sylvia loved secrets and even if she didn't have any secrets she made sure that you thought she did. Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew nothing. When she grew up she planned to know everything and to keep it all a secret. - Kate Atkinson You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two ...

Somehow I knew that no matter what I chose to tell or to keep secret, he would understand. - Lisa Kleypas I think, I would guess most people keep secrets. - Beau Bridges Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again? - Dan Brown The closest thing that comes to how the day felt is when you wipe back to front. You're on the toilet. You're not thinking, and you smear shit on the back of your hanging-down wrinkled ball skin. The more you try to wipe it clean, the skin stretches and the mess keeps getting bigger. The thin layer of shit spreads into the hair and down your thighs. That's how a day like this, how it feels to keep secret. - Chuck Palahniuk I loved Trevor wholly. In all the good ways that made me feel alive and special and important. But also, in the bad ways. The ways that shut me off from others and left me alone with my pain. The ways that had me keep secrets. I loved Trevor in all the ways that I thought mattered, even though I knew that ...

We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars, watching Cassiopeia mount her throne and the Great Bear wash its paws in the South. I would say, "I have a secret to tell you." And, folding me in your arms, boyish and sly, you would answer: "Whisper it into my mouth. - Diane Ackerman I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world. - David Brainerd He won't hurt me. I have a secret weapon. - Sandra Brown I have a secret love of jazz. - Carly Rae Jepsen I have a secret knock. It's so secret that I never use it, lest you hear my knuckles knocking and try to reproduce a knock off to sell on the black market. - Jarod Kintz I have a secret secret admirer. Not only is her identity a secretbut so is the fact that she admires me. - Jarod Kintz I have a secret. A big, fat, hairy secret. And I'm not talking minor-league stuff, like I once let Joseph Applebaum feel me up behind the se...

It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it's so easy. it's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along. - Sarah Dessen I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there. - Cynthia Nixon I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there. - Cynthia Nixon My home in Dallas is wonderful. I can walk everywhere. It's a pretty good hidden secret, Dallas. There are wonderful restaurants and a wonderful nightlife. It's just a beautiful city to be in. - Jodi Lyn Okeefe Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has p...