“This is an old family secret, and I just found this out recently, and it almost broke my heart. My mother said to me, 'I had never told you this, but God, you were an ugly baby'.” HeartSaidMotherFoundSecretBabyMy HeartUglyBrokeBroke My Heart Author:John Stamos
“God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."” ChildrenSaidChristianJesusParentSecretWiseMissingLike YouOur ChildrenChristian InspirationalYour ChildrenBabePrudent Author:Vance Havner
“A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied, the ironic, the suggestive; when it speaks, it wants you to lean forward a little to overhear; it wants you to understand things only years later.” WantNeedsYearsLittlesSaidSpeakSecretTensionThriveIronicDisguiseImplied Book:Twenty Questions Source: Twenty Questions
“I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsSaidSecretHorribleSpokesTherapistsHorrible Things Author:Alice Hoffman
“If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though without his serpentine syntax. It's a delicious treat, studded with wise and beautifully observed detail, that places side by side those perpetually fascinating antagonists, the eager, casual American and the meticulous, pleasure-driven French. Christine Sneed knows everyone's intimate secrets and her book is lively, amusing, and, ultimately, kind to pretty much all of them.” IfsKnowsKindSaidStillsBookSidesPleasureSecretWiseWrittenTreatsDetailsDrivenParisIntimateFascinatingDeliciousCasualAmusingLivelyAntagonistSyntaxMeticulousChristine Author:Rosellen Brown
“Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all."” SaidUniversePrayerSecretLordMankindPrideHigherMetaphysicsPenetrateEndeavour Author:Madame de Stael
“Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret?” SaidBeautifulSecretFedsBeautiful WomenConcealedCoarse Book:A Lost Lady Source: A Lost Lady
“Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on the principles of that rude philosophy of sympathy and resemblance... to trace a subtle relation, a secret harmony, between its tides and the life of man... The belief that most deaths happen at ebb tide is said to be held along the east coast of England from Northumberland to Kent.” MenSaidPhilosophyHappensBeliefSecretPrinciplesFailingSeaFlowSightEnglandRelationHarmonyEastSubtleTidesImpressedRudeCoastResemblanceEast CoastEbb And FlowDwellersKent Author:James G. Frazer
“There's a tolerance and this is a really big thing when it comes to really increasing the whole sense of getting something done and boosting the economy. Obviously not everything is going to be a bonanza, some things are going to be awful, but wouldn't it be great if we had a fantastic window dresser to do something with those windows on Fairfield green and those Victoria's Secret windows. I love girls in bras in panties, but these are just mannequins. Wouldn't it be great if some local artists got together and said, "Hey, Victoria's Secret, let's do something!" We need that.” IfsNeedsSaidDoneWholeBigsTogetherArtistGirlSecretEconomyWindowGreenToleranceLocalsAwfulHeyFantasticBig ThingsUnderwearVictoriaBrasPantiesDressersVictoria's Secret Author:Tina Weymouth
“In a recent interview, Michelle Obama said that the Secret Service taught Malia how to drive. In exchange, Malia taught the Secret Service how to throw a party when her parents are away.” SaidParentPartySecretTaughtInterviewsSecret Service Author:Conan O'Brien
“The Secret Service said there have been 40 fence-jumping incidents at the White House in the past five years. Half of them were intruders trying to get in. The other half was President Obama trying to get out.” TryingYearsHas BeensSaidPastHousePresidentWhiteSecretHalfFiveFive YearsWhite HousePresident ObamaFenceJumpingIncidentsOther HalfSecret ServiceIntruders Author:Conan O'Brien
“The White House encouraged Tom Brady to be more of a role model. They would've said more, but there was a drunken Secret Service agent streaking across the Rose Garden.” SaidHouseWhiteSecretRolesModelsGardenRoseAgentsWhite HouseRole ModelsTomsSecret ServiceBradyRose Garden Author:Jimmy Fallon
“People are being really picky about the upcoming election. I read that Americans do not want the next president to be a first-term senator, be over 65, or have a former president in the family. Then the Secret Service said, 'Hey, whoever slips through slips through. No promises.'” PeopleWantFirstsSaidNextPresidentTermSecretPromiseElectionHeyFormerSlipsBeing RealSenatorsPickySecret Service Author:Jimmy Fallon
“The acting director of the Secret Service, Joseph Clancy, said they may make the fence around the White House taller because of the recent security failures. When asked if he had any other ideas, he said, 'Uh, make the sidewalk lower?'” IfsMaySaidIdeasHouseWhiteActingSecretSecurityDirectorsWhite HouseFenceSidewalkSecret Service Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Mother Teresa was brilliant. She said, “I will never attend an anti-war rally. If you have a peace rally, invite me.” She knew. She understood the secret. Look what she manifested in the world.” IfsWorldLooksSaidWarMotherSecretUnderstoodBrilliantInvitesAnti WarTeresa Author:Jack Canfield