#secret

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#end #evasion #good #good end #guilt

I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow is a secret city, with its own history, folklore and mythology. But what has surprised me is the love the people who work there feel for the place. Everyone seems to think they are plugged into something majestic. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#city #convinced #drama #everyone #feel

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#cannot #conceal #feeling #found #live

It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right. ↗

— David Plouffe

#does #effective #effectively #fairness #going

When I get married, it'll be no secret. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#get #get married #i #married #secret

...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence... ↗

— John Geddes

#impermanence #secret #temporary #beauty

Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet. ↗

— Kirby Puckett

#been #closet #everybody #everything #except

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion. ↗