#secret

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ↗

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. ↗

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#alone #aspect #crime #elude #fact

Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it. ↗

— Les Baxter

#simple #stick #style #well #you

I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself. ↗

— Venerable Bede

#compose #copy #dictate #i #i am

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. ↗

— Irving Berlin

#bad #control #day #force #good

if you were quiet and blended into the background, you were less likely to make waves ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#secrets #life

You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.] ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#love #secrets #trust #love

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ↗

— Mark Twain

#ahead #getting #getting started #secret #started

I don't particularly like going on about being gay or making a big thing about it, but I think it's a bit of a pain to be secretive about it. ↗