Quotes about Secretly

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be. Votes: 4

Secretly, or maybe not so secretly, I've always wanted to be a rock star. Votes: 4

I so miss musical theater. Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers. Votes: 3

Secretly, we wish anyone we love will think exactly the way we do. Votes: 3

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you. Votes: 3

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you. Votes: 3

Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing. Votes: 3

Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act! Votes: 3

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. Votes: 3

Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California. Votes: 3

Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't. Votes: 3

War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, Secretly armed against all death's endeavour; Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall; And if these poor limbs die, safest of all. Votes: 3

Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel. Votes: 3

Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers. I would love to perform at that level. I love the exchange with the audience. I love being able to sing and dance to express your emotions and the community and friendships that are formed when working on a theater piece. Votes: 3

Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other"¦. Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another. Votes: 3

Secretly, the Bush administration is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA politically, setting the stage for a North American Union designed to encompass the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. What the Bush administration truly wants is the free, unimpeded movement of people across open borders with Mexico and Canada. Votes: 3

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it. Votes: 2

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken. Votes: 2

If you want someone to miss you, go secretly and spray your fragrance somewhere. Votes: 2

I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism. Votes: 2

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe. Votes: 2

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. Votes: 2

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Votes: 2

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky. Votes: 2

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do. Votes: 2

One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense. Votes: 2

I came out to L.A. to be a songwriter and not an artist, and I'm so excited because I always secretly wanted to be an artist. Votes: 2

Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly. Votes: 2

By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it. Votes: 2

I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building. Votes: 2

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review. Votes: 2

As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny. Votes: 2

I am the youngest of four siblings, and we're all so close. I don't know where I would be without my brothers and sister. I secretly believe that my parents love me the most! Votes: 2

Men secretly respect a woman who is strong, has confidence and has dreams of her own. There's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is. Votes: 2

These 'mistakes' occur in my books for a reason. I have an agenda: I'm secretly trying to inspire kids to create their own stories and comics, and I don't want them to feel stifled by 'perfectionism.' Votes: 2

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time. Votes: 2

My favorite music isn't necessarily the songs that One Direction come out with. That doesn't mean to say I don't secretly really love some of our songs, which I do. My personal tastes... I actually like quite a bit acoustic and more mellow kinds of things. Votes: 2

We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion - that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around. Votes: 2

I think every film actor secretly wants to be a rock star as well; just that part of the job which requires the extrovert in you. Even if you've become an actor because it's your way of hiding in plain sight, there's still part of you which has that craving. Votes: 2

I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request. Votes: 2

Duality is always secretly unity. Votes: 0

Society is secretly driven by sales Votes: 0

I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors. Votes: 0

Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly. Votes: 0

So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, they went. Votes: 0

Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly. Votes: 0

I'm secretly hoping for the full five. Votes: 0

They don't know you're secretly a badass? Votes: 0

I secretly want to be a rapper. Votes: 0

Every male secretly wants sex with Brad Pitt. Votes: 0

I'm not secretly on the board of Marvel. Votes: 0

I've secretly always wanted to be an astronaut. Votes: 0

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it. Votes: 0

Maybe I'm secretly in my soul a method actor. Votes: 0

The girly movie i secretly love is Pippy Longstockings. Votes: 0

Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves. Votes: 0

I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone. Votes: 0

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly. Votes: 0

If you wish to help someone, give secretly and avoid arrogance. Votes: 0

It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror. Votes: 0

Let yourself be the person you've secretly always wanted to be Votes: 0

I secretly want to skydive, even though it's my greatest fear! Votes: 0

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it. Votes: 0

I'm secretly afraid of clowns. But it's not a secret now...dang. Votes: 0

Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles. Votes: 0

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts. Votes: 0

On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart Votes: 0

In my opinion, all boyfriends should turn out to be secretly wealthy. Votes: 0

Every society which allows violence against animals secretly becomes a violent society. Votes: 0

Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy. Votes: 0

I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works. Votes: 0

Blows the lid off a decades-long conspiracy to secretly educate cartoon viewers Votes: 0

Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids. Votes: 0

One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen. Votes: 0

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all. Votes: 0

I feel bad sometimes because I secretly hope New Orleans gets nailed again. Votes: 0

Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find. Votes: 0

I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon. Votes: 0

No girl wants a secretly gay boyfriend, every dude wants a secretly gay girlfriend. Votes: 0

I secretly want to be a zebra. That is why I always wear stripes. Votes: 0

Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty. Votes: 0

For anyone who has ever stood before a bathroom mirror and secretly thanked The Votes: 0

The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad. Votes: 0

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy. Votes: 0

I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers. Votes: 0

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. Votes: 0

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch Votes: 0

Throughout his life the memory of that happy day stayed locked secretly in (his) heart. Votes: 0

Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man. Votes: 0

When summer is over, winter becomes sad too, because opposites often admire each other secretly! Votes: 0

Freud said that everything was secretly sexual. But etymologists know that sex is secretly food. Votes: 0

I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room. Votes: 0

And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant Votes: 0

He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act. Votes: 0

Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root. Votes: 0

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go. Votes: 0

I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then. Votes: 0

I secretly liked acting, but I wanted to play football. It was an enormous dream. Votes: 0

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire. Votes: 0

In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden. Votes: 0

I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. Votes: 0

Besides, secretly, without knowing it herself, she had been waiting for a Beast to go to. Votes: 0

How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine? Votes: 0

I think women secretly yearn for the return of John Wayne and don't even know it. Votes: 0

We are men who find chess fascinating. Did you expect our lives to be secretly interesting? Votes: 0

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him. Votes: 0

I think a lot of people secretly wish they were a rock star, and I'm no exception. Votes: 0

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it. Votes: 0

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it. Votes: 0

If people only knew how much I secretly hated them, they'd love me for holding it in. Votes: 0

I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire. Votes: 0

The adversary humbly cloaked in its fine smile 'eyes devoid of kindness, speaking gentle its knife secretly hidden. Votes: 0

For did it not mean I was losing my darling, just when I had secretly made her mine?" Votes: 0

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. Votes: 0

In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds. Votes: 0

Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again. Votes: 0

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears. Votes: 0

That moment when Kanye West secretly records your phone call, then Kim [Kardashian] posts it on the internet. Votes: 0

There's only 2 reasons that you hate gay marriage; 1. You're dumb, or 2. You're secretly worried that dicks are delicious. Votes: 0

I'm Richie Rich. I land in New York, secretly thinking I'm like the coolest guy in the world. Votes: 0

It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else. Votes: 0

All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension. Votes: 0

Hope knows no fear. Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss. Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise. Votes: 0

I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years. Votes: 0

I like the way you secretly send me a direct message when we're in the middle of a conversation. Votes: 0

Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands? Votes: 0

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly. Votes: 0

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you? Votes: 0

I started to try to be a colorist, although secretly thinking of myself as somewhat of a black and whiteist. Votes: 0

Tony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that. Votes: 0

In every circle of friends there's always that one person everyone secretly hates. Don't have one? Then it's probably you. Votes: 0

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication. Votes: 0

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition. Votes: 0

You can't make the other fellow feel important in your presence if you secretly feel that he is a nobody Votes: 0

Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood? Votes: 0

Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now. Votes: 0

Beauty loved him more than anything, her Beast boy, but, secretly, sometimes, she wished he would have remained a Beast. Votes: 0

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything. Votes: 0

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes. Votes: 0

She'd secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she'd fallen for him hard. Votes: 0

I am a tiny seashell that has secretly drifted ashore and carries the sound of the ocean surging through its body. Votes: 0

Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God]. Votes: 0

Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there. Votes: 0

...secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water. Votes: 0

I secretly love the song 'No More Tears.' It's my go-to karaoke song that I do with all my friends. Votes: 0

Some people aren't satisfied that I'm a gay man in a woman's body and swear that I'm secretly a real boy. Votes: 0

Remind me," he paused, drawing in a stuttered gasp, "to never piss you off again. Christ, are you secretly a ninja? Votes: 0

I think I might have secretly wished for you to exist all my life but never knew how to admit it. Votes: 0

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims. Votes: 0

Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood Votes: 0

It is strange that there are times when I feel the stars are not at all solemn: they are secretly gay. Votes: 0

Most of those who spend their lives as critics secretly wish they'd be considered important enough for someone to bother criticizing them. Votes: 0

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't. Votes: 0

My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association. Votes: 0

To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting. Votes: 0

The beauty of self realization lies in secretly working out within you everything that is virtuous, that is beautiful, that is joyful. Votes: 0

In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams. Votes: 0

The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine. Votes: 0

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere. Votes: 0

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. Votes: 0

He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person. Votes: 0

I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced. Votes: 0

But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic. Votes: 0

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves? Votes: 0

I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing. Votes: 0

You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy because secretly, you don’t want it to last. Votes: 0

I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work. Votes: 0

I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out. Votes: 0

Pretend all you want, pretty girl. You and I know that deep down you're secretly glad to be pressed up to my body. Votes: 0

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t. Votes: 0

What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is. Votes: 0

No matter what you are doing, keep the undercurrent of happiness. Learn to be secretly happy within your heart in spite of all circumstances. Votes: 0

When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry. Votes: 0

Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses! Votes: 0

All authors secretly hope that their works will be read in 100 years' time and 200 years, and that they will somehow survive into the future. Votes: 0

I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes. Votes: 0

If you don't find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you're teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws. Votes: 0

Often the most tricky questions are the ones we secretly know the answers of.What are you running from?What are you waiting for? Votes: 0

Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped. Votes: 0

If I were Sarah Palin, would I want to sit in an interview with someone who was secretly out to get me? Probably not. Votes: 0

It's always sunny above the clouds. Always. Every day on earth - every day I have ever had - was secretly sunny, after all. Votes: 0

I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy. Votes: 0

If I had a dollar for every time I smiled secretly having you in my mind I think my bank account would show up millions. Votes: 0

Back when I was young, lists seemed like fences on the open range. But secretly, I was pleased to be corralled among other literary thoroughbreds. Votes: 0

I can secretly dance, I think. But no one has seen me so I don't know if that's a fair judgment for me to say. Votes: 0

We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal). Votes: 0

The Spanish government, having run completely out of money, secretly sold the Pyrenees to China, and is now separated from France only by traffic cones. Votes: 0

Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped. Votes: 0

I was like little-miss wannabe punk-rocker; I would go home and secretly listen to Pink, and dance around, like, 'Ugh, she understands me so well!'" Votes: 0

[Caine]"Interesting. Me, I've always wanted to know who my real parents were."[Sam]"Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles." Votes: 0

[Caine] "Interesting. Me, I've always wanted to know who my real parents were." [Sam] "Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles. Votes: 0

Trust your intuition and be resilient. If you have real breakout ideas, even your friends will laugh at you secretly until you can prove their viability. Votes: 0

I always secretly looked forward to nothing going as planned. That way, I wasn't limited by my imagination. That way, anything can, and always did, happen. Votes: 0

And even in the hatred of the majority, there's a kind of triumph because I know that, although they'd never admit it, they secretly respect me. Votes: 0

You like to think that it's something you created, but secretly you know that you had some kind of help, or somebody gave this to you. Votes: 0

August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages. Votes: 0

I feel like every woman, and actually any guy who hasn't played that many sports, you secretly wonder, like, 'Would I be a pro athlete?' Votes: 0

Gladstone .. spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question, ... Votes: 0

Am I the only one who secretly hopes that the Curiosity rover will be swallowed up by a giant alien worm living just below Mars's surface? Votes: 0

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more. Votes: 0

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more Votes: 0

Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'? Votes: 0

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children. Votes: 0

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing. Votes: 0

I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it too hard Votes: 0

There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence. Votes: 0

The sad thing about Trump is that everybody is secretly really relieved he got elected, of the people I know - the professional left and academic left. Votes: 0

Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in. Votes: 0

If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either. Votes: 0

I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got. Votes: 0

In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song. Votes: 0

America has a love-hate relationship with celebrity. We love to follow celebrities, but we also love to mock them. And secretly, we believe we're better than they are. Votes: 0

To all the worryworts out there who said super PACs were going to lead to a cabal of billionaires secretly buying democracy: wrong! They are publicly buying democracy. Votes: 0

By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft. Votes: 0

America has a love-hate relationship with celebrity. We love to follow celebrities, but we also love to mock them. And secretly, we believe were better than they are. Votes: 0

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. Votes: 0

All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat. Votes: 0

There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it. Votes: 0

The one who admonishes his brother secretly, he has advised sincerely and has honored him. If he does it outwardly (among others) then he has dishonored and shamed him. Votes: 0

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him. Votes: 0

Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] - things that you probably shouldn't like. Votes: 0

Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about. Votes: 0

Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came together, and they won't coalesce ever again. Votes: 0

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality. Votes: 0

Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility. Votes: 0

The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity are adopted with design. Votes: 0

A small part of her secretly hoped she caught him in bed. But that really was a very small part. The bigger part hoped he was in the shower. Votes: 0

At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact. Votes: 0

To plan secretly, to move surreptitiously, to foil the enemy's intentions and balk his schemes, so that at last the day may be won without shedding a drop of blood. Votes: 0

My favorite music isn't necessarily the songs that One Direction come out with. That doesn't mean to say I don't secretly really love some of our songs, which I do. Votes: 0

You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people. Votes: 0

Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own ... Votes: 0

My brother used to say some people have an "inferiority simplex." It's not that they're under the delusion that they're inferior; they actually are inferior and they secretly know it. Votes: 0

True obedience can only happen when you secretly think you know better, and you choose to bow your head. Anything short of that is just agreement, and any ninny-in-waiting can agree. Votes: 0

How many of us, who are engaged in the Lord's holy service, are secretly cherishing some proud purpose of excelling other men, of making a name, of securing money and applause. Votes: 0

I could think of no better place to secretly murder someone than inside a fridge. Well, actually there were probably several better ones, but none came to mind at the time. Votes: 0

It's the repetitive thing that brings space. That's one of the things I love secretly about hip-hop. Jazz doesn't have that element. It changes every bar, nothing is ever the same. Votes: 0

Christians are viewed as being "judgmental, homophobic, moralists" who think they are the only ones going to heaven and who "secretly relish the fact that everyone else is going to hell. Votes: 0

However, he also trusted me to make my own decisions. Contradicting me or telling me what to do wasn't in his nature - even though he secretly may have wanted to. Votes: 0

I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth. Votes: 0

Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love. Votes: 0

There's certainly enough writers and directors and actors who secretly aspire to make movies and films that agree with the center-right perspective, and I would argue the majority perspective in America. Votes: 0

British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question. Votes: 0

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination. Votes: 0

Unless you learn to play a duet in the same key, to the same rhythm, a slow process of disengagement will wedge you apart, first secretly, psychologically, and then openly and miserably. Votes: 0

For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years. Votes: 0

The most fundamental reason that even businesspeople underestimate the importance of sales is the systematic effort to hide it at every level of every field in a world secretly driven by it. Votes: 0

You've always been two people. The Jenna who wants to please and the Jenna who secretly resents in. They won't break, you know. Your parents never thought you were perfect. You did. Votes: 0

It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils. Votes: 0

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be. Votes: 0

She wasn't entirely sure how she felt, All she knew was that he entered her world And she felt more alive than she had before, secretly wishing he was feeling the same. Votes: 0

The dust comes secretly day after day, Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. But O this dust I shall drive away Is flowers and kings, Is Solomon's temple, poets, Nineveh. Votes: 0

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust. Votes: 0

Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I was in Covent Garden today having a pizza, and these men who worked there were secretly trying to take my picture from behind the counter. That sort of thing is so odd. Votes: 0

We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives - as if we are secretly reading the 'Star' for our campaign information instead of the policy journals. Votes: 0

I cry secretly. I don't really cry in front of anybody. I hate crying. I feel like it's not accomplishing anything. But when I lost my mother, I cried, and I cried big. Votes: 0

I used to think of George Michael as being mechanical, like a scientist in a white coat, working in a laboratory, creating perfect harmonies, and all the while I was secretly admiring him. Votes: 0

Once I had a potentially heart attack-inducing eight double espressos in one day. I think my assistant secretly swaps my coffees for decaf as she doesn't want me to die of caffeine overdose. Votes: 0

I walk around a lot secretly. Even when I use a car, I park it briefly and walk. It seems that I still need some time alone to think and sort out things myself. Votes: 0

While I am sure there are a number of women who secretly wonder whether they are lesbian, most simply have, somewhere, a fantasy about having sex, in a non-defining, non-exclusive way, with other women. Votes: 0

Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain? Votes: 0

Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. Votes: 0

I am the youngest of four siblings, and were all so close. I dont know where I would be without my brothers and sister. I secretly believe that my parents love me the most! Votes: 0

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do. Votes: 0

America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn't that fabulous? Votes: 0

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.' Votes: 0

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next. Votes: 0

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view. Votes: 0

I’ve discovered that my best work comes from the uncomfortable but fruitful feeling of not having a clue – of being worried, secretly afraid, even convinced that I’m on the wrong track. Votes: 0

Writing jokes for others is like having babies for someone else. It's sad. Like the woman who gives up her baby but needs to be close so she secretly becomes the maid in the household. Votes: 0

Sometimes reactions can be quite surprising: readers like things that you, the author, feel you've barely gotten away with; or they dislike one of the parts you secretly think is one of your little gems. Votes: 0

I always felt as a kid that I was underappreciated, invisible or weird, but I've always secretly thought people would one day appreciate what is different about me. I'm always putting that message out there. Votes: 0

My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it. Votes: 0

Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows. Votes: 0

Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite. Votes: 0