#secret

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy. ↗

— John Burroughs

#chimney #discovered #discovered the secret #draws #either

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms. ↗

— Lord Byron

#body #born #god #god help #good

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#defenseless #editors #flattery #giving #guise

I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#i think #last #position #public #secretary

Democrats are committed to mapping a new direction in Iraq, and we will work with the President and the new Defense Secretary to ensure that the will of the American people guides our future actions. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#american #american people #committed #defense #democrats

I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterday's election that they disapprove of the current direction in the war in Iraq. As a result, the President wasted no time in dumping Secretary Rumsfeld. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#american #american people #believe #bush #bush administration

It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#damaged #effective #haven #heart #medications

Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#escape #eyes #gate #secret #war

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#because #company #drawn #each #fellow

One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense. ↗

— Joan Didion

#crazy #grief #happens #make #people