#secret

These rooms are decorated in two days. It's all kept secret. The neighbors spend the night in each other's home. They don't see their finished room until the end of the second day. They have no say what happens in their own home. ↗

— Paige Davis

#days #decorated #each #end #finished

Secret combinations lusting for power, gain, and glory are flourishing. A secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries is increasing its evil influence and control over America and the entire world. ↗

— Ezra Taft Benson

#freedom

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#like #naturally #own #secreting #secretive

It is a fundamental principle of American democracy that laws should not be public only when it is convenient for government officials to make them public. They should be public all the time, open to review by adversarial courts, and subject to change by an accountable legislature guided by an informed public. If Americans are not able to learn how their government is interpreting and executing the law then we have effectively eliminated the most important bulwark of our democracy. That’s why, even at the height of the Cold War, when the argument for absolute secrecy was at its zenith, Congress chose to make US surveillance laws public. Without public laws, and public court rulings interpreting those laws, it is impossible to have informed public debate. And when the American people are in the dark, they can’t make fully informed decisions about who should represent them, or protest policies that they disagree with. These are fundamentals. It’s Civics 101. And secret law violates those basic principles. It has no place in America. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#law #national-security #secrets #surveillance #change

The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity. ↗

— Olivia Goldsmith

#expectations #happiness #insensitivity #low #low expectations

Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel. ↗

— Sprague Grayden

#any #big #channel #day #discovery

The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place. ↗

— Sacha Guitry

#forgiving #good #good marriage #marriage #marrying

I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life. ↗

— Fawn Hall

#government #happy #i #life #loved

Men who have reached and passed 45, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this. ↗

— Benjamin Haydon

#having #look #men #other #out

I don't like James Bond. They made him a super hero, but he is just an agent, a human being. In my movies, secret agents are more realistic, I didn't want to portray them in the most glowing colours. ↗

— King Hu

#agents #being #bond #colours #glowing