The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.
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.
i suppose that's the secret, if you're ever wishing for things to back the way they were. You just have to look up.
We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets - you know, your records with your doctor; that's a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated.
it’s awful. No privacy, no secrets. Everything you’re ashamed of, laid out for everyone to see.
If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.
And the leaves were telling secrets to the wind.
The sun comes back every day with new and powerful secrets.
The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.
I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Fascism goes back to our infancy and childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that. So the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory.
The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret.
A believer longs after God, to come into his presence, to feel his love, to feel near to him in secret, to feel in the crowd that he is nearer than all the creatures. Ah! dear brethren, have you ever tasted this blessedness? There is greater rest and solace to be found in the presence of God for one hour than in an eternity of the presence of man.
Harbor no secrets - they create dark places in the psyche.
Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.
If your partner asks you if something bothers you, and something bothers you, the best thing you can do is say, "Yes, it bothers me. " Otherwise you create a situation where they think everything is fine, continue with the offending behavior, while you build up a secret reservoir of resentment that will eventually come pouring out, to their shock.
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.
I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.
Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth.
In a closed urban fantasy, the magical world is secret and no one knows about it. In an open urban fantasy, everyone knows about it. So with a closed fantasy, you have to figure out how the world keeps itself secret, and with an open one, you have to figure out how knowledge of magic has altered the world we know.