#secret

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. ↗

— Thucydides

#freedom #happiness #secret

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces. ↗

— Richard Perle

#external #forces #internal #justify #military

Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#company #dealing #educations #ended #father

I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China. ↗

— John Pomfret

#fourteen #his #i #interest #kissinger

We took an approach, supported by the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and the Mayor for London, that we had very real fears of violence and damage being caused across the streets of London. ↗

— Michael Todd

#approach #being #caused #damage #fears

I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#fantasy #geek #i #room #sci-fi

I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul. ↗

— Anne Rice

#devil #god #i #know #learned

I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success. ↗

— Andre Rieu

#i #i think #know #like #music

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#controls #having #how #instead #learning

When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets... So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things. ↗

— Michelle Rodriguez

#always #because #cia #i #intimate