Keeping Secrets Quotes (page 5)

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• caring
• question
• thoughts

I could tell by his expression that once he got over his anger at me for keeping this secret from him, there was nothing left to talk about. He wasn't confused. He didn't need questions answered. He didn't ask why or how or with whom or whether I thought maybe it might just be a phase. He didn't ask who knew and who didn't know or whether I thought it might ruin my career. I was his sister and he didn't care whether I was straight or gay; it simply didn't matter to him. Portia de Rossi

• life
• love
• your life

So many vows … they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It’s too much. No matter what you do, you’re forsaking one vow or another. George R. R. Martin

• keeping
• secrets
• keeps

A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping. Kenneth Tynan

• the secret
• mind
• mindfulness

The secret of managing is to keep the folks who hate you away from the ones who haven’t made up their minds yet. Casey Stengel

• wind
• street
• sky

It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable curtain. In the falling quiet there was no sky or earth, only snow lifting in the wind, frosting the window glass, chilling the rooms, deadening and hushing the city. At all hours it was necessary to keep a lamp lighted, and Mrs. Miller lost track of the days: Friday was no different from Saturday and on Sunday she went to the grocery:... Truman Capote

• thinking
• make
• surest way

The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer. Frank Herbert

• dead
• secretive
• ifs

three can keep a secret if two are dead."- benjamin franklin Benjamin Franklin

• lies
• doubt
• end

... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the end of the rainbow. It is after all my rainbow and if I don't do it no one else will...Survival is the secret so you really can't afford to doubt yourself for long because you are all you've got. The only thing to do is to go the limit with it. Exceed. Diane Arbus

• him
• betrayal
• lip

No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. Sigmund Freud

• secrets
• secret
• keeping

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. George Orwell

• people
• immortal
• secrets

The only secret people keep is immortality. Emily Dickinson

• love
• world
• secret love

Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery. Rumi

• true
• matters
• something

Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true. Jodi Picoult

• friends
• friend
• people

Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk. Anais Nin

• happy
• learning
• people

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. Dick Gregory