#secrets

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep ↗

— Edgar Watson Howe

#secrets #wisdom #inspirational

We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets - you know, your records with your doctor; that's a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated. ↗

— Julian Assange

#deal #dealing #doctor #forward #identifying

There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#keep #secrets #some #sometimes #want

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#flesh #happens #like #lovers #made

The real secrets are not the ones I tell. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#ones #real #secrets #tell

I do not tell her about how much I look forward to going to the Wright barn. How those couple of hours in his studio feel like an escape, a refuge. Nor do I tell Rachel that I think Damian has the most beautiful hands I've ever seen, that he walks like a cat, that he has the clearest eyes, which seem able to see absolutely everything about me. That he seems to be the loneliest person I've ever met, and it breaks my heart. All of these things feel private. Precious. And I don't want to share them with Rachel. Not yet, anyway. ↗

— Lisa Ann Sandell

#privacy #secrets #beauty

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#chemical #experiments #i #nature #processes

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#him #left #over #papers #room

We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled. ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#busted #dad #family #heavily #issues

I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#afraid #away #feel #given #i