#secret

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#disappointment #failure #holes #learning #loss

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#also #brainy #brilliant #defense #disastrous

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know? ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#because #cry #darkest #deepest #go

In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#democracy #even #keep #real #real danger

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#been #blessed #everyone #forbidden #general

A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen. Harry Potter rolled over inside his blankets without waking up. One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on, not knowing he was special, not knowing he was famous, not knowing he would be woken in a few hours' time by Mrs. Dursley's scream as she opened the front door to put out the milk bottles, nor that he would spend the next few weeks being prodded and pinched by his cousin Dudley...He couldn't know that at this very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: "To Harry Potter - the boy who lived! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#fame #fate #harry-potter #innocence #secret

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#inquisition #like #secrets #slavery #those

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#eye #heart #here #invisible #now

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#admire #desiring #secret #without

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone. ↗