#secret

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

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#make #politics #russia #secret #treaty

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way. ↗

— Richard Harding Davis

#good writing #new #new thing #new way #old

I have a lot of secret uses for sour cream, which is the magic ingredient in my mac and cheese. It's an old-timey, Southern version, and the sour cream makes it that much creamier. Oh, it's so good! ↗

— Paula Deen

#cream #good #i #ingredient #lot

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#creature #every #fact #human #mystery

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. ↗

— Tony Blair

#anywhere #chance #choice #choose #democracy

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#burdening #friend #secret #think #twice

It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own. ↗

— Joe Biden

#attorney #attorney general #beau #been #believe

The story of my family. . .changes with the teller. ↗

— Jennifer Haigh

#families #narrators #perspective #religion #secrets

CODE: Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Tanakh (JPS, Genesis 3:17) DECODED: Blessed is He that discerneth secrets. Talmud (Berakoth 58a) ↗

— H.W. Charles

#money #moneymaking #secrets #wealth #wealth-accumulation