S Quotes
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“Secret fates
Guide our states
Both in mirth and mourning.”
Source: Campion's Work
“Secret glances are shared by those on the "inside" or esoteric "inner circle", who have literally gone into many lower frequencies simultaneously. This is the "secret glance" of love, which allows the higher to operate in the lower; to "save" those worlds in order to correct the impending takeover of the "Devil and his demons", a metaphor for light and dark "battles" raging today.”
Source: Devil's Inception
“Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.”
Source: Candide
“Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.”
Source: The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author
“Secret guilt is by silence revealed.”
“Secret Instructions for Reaching Xanadu: Go eastward from the Bewildered-Dragon Lake Until you see the Monastery of the West Tower straight and high above your head. Then take Those charms which, as I told you, in the breast Of your most inner robe you have hidden, and follow Their clear instruction.”
Source: Selected Poems: With a Preface on the Nature of Poetry
“SECRET is not a mystery, it is analization.”
“Secret is the mother of all lies.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Secret of blissful life consists in practicing laughter, silence, breathing and meditation.”
“Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesnt kill you...and to love one woman for the rest of your life.”
“Secret of my success was to have ambition and know minds of men.”
“Secret of success is found in your regular actions”
“Secret of success is found on your regular actions”
“Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. An army without secret agents is exactly like a man without eyes or ears.”
Source: The Art of War
“Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.”
Source: Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules
“Secret Service agents detained an Iowa man with a gun who happened to be walking in a Des Moines park where President Bush was jogging. Were they out of their minds? White guys with guns put Bush in the White House.”
“Secret Services are everywhere. They are part of out daily life. We just don't really care. We are not concerned at all.”
“Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.”
Source: Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks
“Secret Societies have existed among all peoples, savage and civilized, since the beginning of recorded history... It is beyond question that the secret societies of all ages have exercised a considerable degree of political influence.”
“Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.”
“Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.”
“Secret to productivity is not finding more time to do more stuff, but finding the strength to do less of the stuff that doesnt need doing.”
“Secret to time is beyond our reason.”
“Secret to what?" "Secret to shutting you up," he said. "I just have to beat you till you're half-dead, then give you chicken soup and"--he raised his hands--"blessed silence.”
Source: Magic Burns
“Secret to writing a bestseller: You write. You stop dreaming of writing. You stop talking about writing. Stop wishing you were writing. And you write.”
“secret transgression was even more thrilling than a shared one.”
Source: The Vanishing Half: A Novel
“Secretariat has just tied the world record for nine furlongs. He is running now as if in contempt of the clock. Those watching him begin to comprehend the magnitude of the effort. He is moving beyond the standard by which the running horse has been traditionally judged, not tiring, not leg weary, not backing up a stroke, dimensionless in scope, and all the time Turcotte asking nothing of him.”
“Secretary [Hillary ] Clinton is absolutely right, there are people, Koch brothers among others, who have a group called Concerned Veterans of America, funded by the Koch brothers. The Koch brothers, by the way, want to destroy Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, every governmental program passed since the 1930s. Yes, there are people out there who want to privatize it.”
“Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.”
“Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.”
“Secretary Hillary Clinton for four years was part of a policy of resetting Russian relations with Russia in our interests.”
“Secretary Hillary Clinton used several different servers and administrators of those servers during her four years at the State Department. She also used numerous mobile devices to send and to read email on that personal domain.”
“Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said any assumption that the US would not use force against North Korea would be a mistake. Such bellicosity frightens liberals. The left's reaction to nutty despots is: he might hit me, so I'll be nice. Rumsfeld's idea is: He'll hit me? Maybe I'll hit him. The beauty of that approach cannot be denied.”
Source: Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
“Secretary of state Colin Powell himself eloquently pointed out the many ways to get at the root of this problem... economic, diplomatic, legal and political, as well as military. A rush to launch precipitous military counterattacks runs too great a risk that more innocent men, women and children will be killed. I could not vote for a resolution that I believe will lead to such an outcome.”
“Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most influential woman in Washington - for what she has accomplished and for what she may yet do: win the presidency.”
“Secretary of State Upshur lobbied a number of senators and party officials but not the key men....By doing this, he spread a wide net of support but did not risk interference by powerful men who might be opposed to the idea. He did it slowly, too, day by day, state by state. He met senators in hallways, in restaurants, and under trees.”
“Secretary of State, maybe they [Republicans] would consider Steve Hadley for that job.”
“Secretary of state, now they're saying it's between Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani, which has a lot of our viewers saying, how could Mitt Romney even be in the running given how loyal Rudy Giuliani was to Mr. Trump. And even if you might like Mitt Romney, he was not loyal and in fact he savaged Trump during the primary.”
“Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.”
“Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.”
Source: The World According to Rummy
“Secreted and hidden in the heart of the world and in the heart of the human is the light which can illuminate all life, the future and the past. Shall we not search for it?”
“Secretive power loathes journalists who do their job: who push back screens, peer behind façades, lift rocks. Opprobrium from on high is their badge of honour.”
Source: Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs
“Secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren't called racist.”
“Secretly," he mumbled in a quieter tone, "I've always wanted to know what it would feel like to lust, to hunger for something different. But I've never been able to imagine ever experiencing that kind of desire.”
Source: Sacrifice
“Secretly, he was ashamed of himself for allowing a girl such as her to have so much sway over his feelings. He was rarely prone to obsession, and, frankly, wasn’t used to it. But the thought of him being with her was warm on his mind, an idea that first began with a sunset and then floated over to just above his heart, where it settled into an easy flame. Maybe that’s the way it was with love—it began in a most inconspicuous way before consuming the totality of one’s life.”
“Secretly in my heart, I believe food is a doorway to almost every dimension of our existence. ... Food never was just food. From the time a cave person first came out from under a rock, food has been a little bit of everything: who we are spiritually as well as what keeps us alive. It's a gathering place, and in the best of all worlds it's possible that when people of one country sit down to eat another culture's food it will open their minds to the culture itself. Food is a doorway to understanding, and it can be as profound or as facile as you would like it to be.”
“Secretly, they call us in the night, beings of golden white light. Purple rays upon our crowns, all while we rest our head in bed. Dragons of orange vibration, reawakening our memory of our creation. We awaken with a feeling of bliss, all within the nighttime kiss. The secrets have been revealed, opened and no longer lay dormant inside. We call upon you to carry the light on beyond the night. Awaken to the spirit that is you. For, you will be received in the purple glow all around you. Burn on heart, and reawaken within us your presence. Call upon us secretly in the night.”
Source: Sutras of the Heart: Spiritual Poetry to Nourish the Soul
“Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.”
“Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.”
Source: Devices And Desires: The Engineer Trilogy: Book One
“Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!”