#secret

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering. ↗

— Gwen John

#passionate #reserved #secretive #suffering #violence

To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly. ↗

— William Samuel Johnson

#folly #keep #others #secret #wisdom

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#alone #consciousness #day #delicious #entangled

I think everything should be governed by law. We don't want to keep secrets anymore. ↗

— Nong Duc Manh

#everything #governed #i #i think #keep

No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis. ↗

— Theresa May

#arrive #basis #briefing #daily #daily basis

Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#stupidity #secret

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#led #lies #me #secret #solely

Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept a secret by women in one very remote county in China for a thousand years. It's the only language that was invented and used by women to have been found anywhere in the world. ↗

— Lisa See

#been #china #county #found #invented

I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I've always been honest, open, and upfront. ↗

— Boyd Rice

#any #areas #been #honest #i

You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#craft #create #die #either #keep