#secretly

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#done #flowing #good #good man #green

Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them. ↗

— George Weinberg

#happier #lot #many #people #punish

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#free #free love #judges #love #openly

My parents thought all actors were secretly drug addicts, except for Clint Eastwood, whom they admired. But they thought it was very unlikely that I would ever be Clint Eastwood. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#clint #clint eastwood #eastwood #ever #except

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

#envy #forbidden #identify #illegal #need

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#given #god #perceiving #reveal #secretly

What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#being #else #everyone #how #i

I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#fantasy #geek #i #room #sci-fi

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#competition #dreads #fears #pride #rivals

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#authorities #autocracy #dictatorship #envied #freedom