Top 455 Secret Quotes

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.
John Ralston Saul
Anything done in secret is more likely to result in terrible errors.
David Brin
Because I am married to a surgeon, I do Botox and I do some fillers. But I truly believe that the best beauty secret is happiness. I know that sounds sappy, but I’m just telling you it comes from the inside and spreads out. The happier and more satisfied you are living your life, the better you will look.
Heather Dubrow
My secret is one the world needs to know – nearly a billion people a year die from unsafe drinking water.
Bella Thorne
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
Noam Chomsky
Desire! That’s the one secret of every man’s career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
Bobby Unser
The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.
Harvey S. Firestone
I don’t know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I’m not part of a, like, secret society or pickup basketball game. As far as I’m concerned, pick-up basketball games are secret societies. They confuse me. I’ve never been a networker or I’ve never been very social.
Joss Whedon
Timing is a very important part of being a father. You should never show your kids things before they’re ready. Especially with movies. Toys like Lego are okay because the fact that your 3-year-old can’t understand the instructions ultimately leads you to constructing it yourself… the secret plan all along.
Rhys Darby
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.
Michel De Certeau
If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be – not understood, but divined.
Remy de Gourmont
The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it’s Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria’s Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.
Heidi Klum
The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.
Martin Seligman
I wouldn’t ever pose naked… I’m fine to do bikinis and certainly lingerie if I feel it’s done tastefully… cute like Victoria’s Secret, but nothing like raunchy or overly sexual.
Hailey Baldwin
As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was

As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn’t very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
A little secret – I’m the child of a shrink. I am; my mom’s a shrink, and my father’s a lawyer. So believe me, I analyze and negotiate. That is a huge amount of the director’s work, especially when you’re working with people who – such a variety.
Adam Shankman
Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.
Mark Haddon
The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.
Joan Collins
In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.
Stuart Symington
Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
My grandmother started my interest in secret doors, trying to find things she lost, and we found an old letter in a great bookcase with a round facade.
David Linley
The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus’ death, is walking toward the temple when he meets a Pharisee who mocks him for having been deceived by a false messiah. These taunts echoed John’s own fear and doubt.
Elaine Pagels
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris
I’m writing a book called ‘The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus’ about the maths of Christmas: how to set up a secret Santa so it’s totally fair; how to decorate your tree mathematically; how to win at Monopoly.
Hannah Fry
Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs.
Karisma Kapoor
The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
Yash Chopra
In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children’s literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the obvious cuteness.
Andrew O’Hagan
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
Alexander Smith
Here’s another secret – I have really big feet. I’m a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes.
Freida Pinto
The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards.
Lynne Truss
I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn’t matter what you look like to play it.
Fred Melamed
I know you think that when you’re 35, 45, 55, you’ll be different. But I’m going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You’re going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you’ll always be that 16-year-old girl.
Francine Pascal
The biggest catastrophes that we’ve witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.
Margaret Heffernan
No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.
Renata Adler
The denigration of business hurts America, because the secret sauce for our economy is confidence. I don’t want to hear that nonsense that all business is bad.
Jamie Dimon
The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven’t made up their minds.
Casey Stengel
A little-known secret is that being a pro athlete is not that great. It’s a pretty short lifespan. I know all these parents are out there driving their children to be professionals, but so many pros will tell you, ‘No, you don’t want to do this.’
Timothy Olyphant
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Bertrand Russell
I was working with C. L. R. James; I believed in Marxist ideas about the labor and movement and the workers being the secret to the future. And I learned differently just by being in Detroit and being married to Jimmy Boggs.
Grace Lee Boggs
I sat down with a yellow legal pad and began writing ‘A Time to Kill.’ Had no idea what I was doing. It became, over a period of several years, a secret little hobby nobody knew about except my wife, because she was reading chapter by chapter.
John Grisham
Perhaps the secret to making a billion dollars in real estate is that there is no secret.
David Lichtenstein
The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it’s not too important. A lot of people watching doesn’t change anything.
Jack Germond
Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.
Bernard Williams
If there is any secret to my success, I think it’s that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.
Sidney Sheldon
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That’s probably the most pretentious thing I’ve said.
Laurie Anderson
Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. He

Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. Heads of state at the UN should put an end them. That would be the best way of tracking down the drug traffickers.
Evo Morales
All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
Barry Unsworth
No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
Victor Hugo
When I first met Aaliyah – it time for the world to hear this, I’m gonna give a little secret – I was in love with her.
Timbaland
I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.
Katy Perry
If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.
Regina Brett
My dark little secret is that I don’t actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art.
Charles Saatchi
In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?
Al Gore
I used to follow trends and try to do exactly what I saw in the magazines, but I’m not a Victoria’s Secret model who can wear anything.
Khloe Kardashian
I’ve decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.
Barry Humphries
Most of what Hawaii has to offer is no secret. Pipeline is probably the most famous wave in the world.
Kelly Slater
I know my game pretty well, and that is the secret to success in most sports.
AB de Villiers
Each song has its own secret that’s different from another song, and each has its own life. Sometimes it has to be teased out, whereas other times it might come fast. There are no laws about songwriting or producing. It depends on what you’re doing, not just who you’re doing.
Mark Knopfler
But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.
Kirsten Dunst
There is no secret, once we go to qualifying, we all seem to enjoy it. Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It’s like a rush, I really enjoy that.
Sebastian Vettel
Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret – if there is one being kept – will be revealed.
Dwight Schultz