At such moments her own emotions elevated him till he was as a god, and, as he gazed at her and listened, he seemed gazing on the face of life and reading its deepest secrets. And then, becoming aware of the heights of exquisite sensibility he attained, he decided that this was love and that love was the greatest thing in the world.

He saw no beauty in the sunshine sifting down through the green leaves, nor did the azure vault of the sky whisper as of old and hint of cosmic vastness and secrets trembling to disclosure. Life was intolerably dull and stupid, and its taste was bad in his mouth.

Ogres weren’t dangerous only because of their size and their cruelty. They knew your secrets just by looking at you, and they used their knowledge.

There are secrets in all families.

Far up above, aliens hover Making home movies for the folks back home Of all these weird creatures that lock up their spirits Drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets.

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

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.

I don’t think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell – in the clearness of the instructions they receive.

The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.

It is the patient workers, and the active, kindly sympathetic men and women who hold the balance of things secure.

Three people can keep a secret as long as two of them are dead.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

I figured something out. And it is no secret what I figured out. Whatever the majority of people were doing, I found myself doing the opposite. I wanted to chase something great.

In my ninety-plus years, I have learned a secret. I have learned that when good men and good women face challenges with optimism, things will always work out! Truly, things always work out! Despite how difficult circumstances may look at the moment, those who have faith and move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon — no alternative. The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

First of all, for me the secret is in the ingredients. You don’t need to start spending fortunes on organic foods and start becoming way over budget. The better the ingredient, the littler that needs doing to it.

The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.

My vote is my secret.

All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.

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.

Oh, I can keep many secrets, so I would be a phenomenal secret agent. I love secrets.

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

The secret of healthy hitchhiking is to eat junk food.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

The great secret is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls; in short, behaving as if you were in heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

To recognize this unity of form and matter in all things, is what reason is striving to attain to. But in order to penetrate to this unity, in order to investigate all the secrets of Nature, we must search into the opposed and contradictory extremes of things, the maximum and the minimum.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

In all chaos, there is a cosmos; in all disorder, a secret order

Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him

You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what is the common quality that makes you love them, though you cannot put it into words

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

Everything comes to light, sooner or later. When God Almighty wills it, our secrets are found out.

Her heart lived in no cherished secrets of its own, but in feelings which it longed to share with all the world.

One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also—if you love them enough.

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them

The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.

The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self-confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.

Poor soul, you will never know anything
of real importance. You will not uncover
even one of life’s secrets. Although all religions
promise paradise, take care to create your own
paradise here and now on earth.

And do you think that unto such as you
A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew
God gave a secret, and denied it me?
Well, well—what matters it? Believe that, too!

I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don’t want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character.

I love England – it’s no secret.

Everybody has a secret world inside of them.

Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.

The secret of marriage is separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.

A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose!

If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it, therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.

Don’t call yourself a secret, unless you mean to keep it.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The secret to success is constancy of purpose.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.