#secret

In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

#committee #control #first #forces #me

Jews have been the most successful and productive nation in history. ↗

— H.W. Charles

#money #secrets #success #wealth #wealth-creation

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find. ↗

— John Churton Collins

#each #find #knew #other #secrets

There is no secret formula--only a life committed to a close walk with God. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#living-for-god #secret #life

The real thing about evil… you figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#humanity #secrets #life

Ritualised child sexual abuse is about abuse of power, control and secrecy. Ten years ago many people found it difficult to believe that fathers actually raped their children, yet survivors of such abuses spoke out and eventually began to be listened to and believed. Ritual abuse survivors, when they try to speak out about their experiences, face denial and disbelief from society and often fear for their lives from the abusers. ↗

— Laurie Matthew

#child-abuse #childabuse #childhood-abuse #mental-health-professionals #rape

George was an atheist, and so am I. But how I long now for an afterlife - a world of light or of deep dazzling darkness, where he and the others we've lost reside, unscathed, forever accessible - to have tea with, to talk nonsense with, to reinvent the world with ↗

— Justin Spring

#gay #homosexual #kinsey #secret-historian #tattoo

How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home? ↗

— Alice Sebold

#secret #love

It was an earthshattering kiss, one that stole breaths, stopped hearts, and scared the shit out of me because it surfaced feelings I’d never felt before, ones that rendered me helpless. ↗

— Jessica Sorensen

#love #the-secret-of-ella-and-micha #love

How about we really steal Brittany's thunder by giving the London paparazzi an exclusive?" "What sort of exclusive?" "Let's show them how much I love Morgan Abbot." "Love?" Was I really hearing this? "You... are in love with me?" "Totally. One hundred percent head over heels in love with you, Morg. Have been ever since you led me on that goofy chase around the White House. ↗

— Cassidy Calloway

#romance #secrets-of-a-first-daughter #love