“ Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. ”
- Leonard Cohen- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. ”
- James Baker- Copy
- 1.4K
“ To enjoy a good reputation give publicly, and steal privately. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
- 1.8K
“ There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't. ”
- William Least Heat Moon- Copy
- 839
“ Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it. ”
- Charles de Montesquieu- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson's damn. ”
- Thomas Hardy- Copy
- 3.4K
“ If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advertisements are covertly pornographic. ”
- Philip Slater- Copy
- 385
“ A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper. ”
- Marcel Pagnol- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. ”
- Bryan Ferry- Copy
- 1.2K
“ But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, from offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously. ”
- Paul Wiener- Copy
- 320
“ We must shed the old stereotype of anarchists as bearded bomb throwers furtively stalking about city streets at night. ”
- Stephen Jay Gould- Copy
- 953
“ Secretly part of me has always wanted to try cocaine, but I just couldn't imagine sniffing anything up my nose. It seems like that would hurt. ”
- Halle Berry- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root. ”
- Tanith Lee- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in Mississippi. ”
- Phil Donahue- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all. ”
- Sophocles- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned. ”
- Theodor Herzl- Copy
- 2K
“ Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them. ”
- George Weinberg- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The president has said publicly, and he has told me privately, that he has every intention to carry out the recommendations of the commission. ”
- Henry Kissinger- Copy
- 472
“ Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed. ”
- Daniel J. Boorstin- Copy
- 827
“ These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet. ”
- Mel Brooks- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
- 2.4K
“ But seduction isn't making someone do what they don't want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already. ”
- Waiter Rant- Copy
- 646
“ If people only knew how much I secretly hated them, they'd love me for holding it in. ”
- Matt Groening- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. ”
- Fulton John Sheen- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality. ”
- Carl Jung- Copy
- 3.7K
“ There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't. ”
- William Trogdon- Copy
- 330
“ The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 2.9K
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