#secret

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it. ↗

— John W. Vessey, Jr.

#before #defense #give #job #know

In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are. ↗

— Garry Trudeau

#event #exactly #readers #regular #secret

The first thing the secretary types is the boss. ↗

— Donald Trump

#first #first thing #secretary #the first thing #thing

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#balances #devices #diplomacy #during #fascism

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#bloom #fade #feel #full #know

I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#america #city #grew #i #knew

I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#america #any #appreciation #being #constantly

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#degree #differences #everything #kind #oneness

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#always #breaking #first #i #i always

The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that. ↗

— George Wald

#beyond #die #effect #heaven #kill