There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.
Lemony Snicket
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Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyon...
LEMONY SNICKET If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
GEORGE ORWELL If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it yourself
LATIN PROVERB If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to
yourself.
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept w...
ERIN MORGENSTERN Dont force noone to see your worth, it doesnt matter how much you love them, love yourself first, ev...
JHERRERA No matter how busy you are, No matter in which position you are, No matter what situation life gives...
YASMEEN KHAN Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want...
JODI PICOULT No matter how many thousands friends you've had, or even more likes you've got, but if you do not en...
TOBA BETA Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for ...
KATERINA STOYKOVA KLEMER If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yo...
MARK GLAMACK Dont be afraid to stand for what you believe
in, even if that means standing alone,it doesn't matter...
GUNDO MULAUDZI If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be...
LEWIS CARROLL You don't know what a fanatic Judy Garland fan or an Oz fanatic is capable of. They think they want ...
MICHAEL SHAW People don’t keep journals for themselves. They keep them for other people, like a secret they don...
MARILYN MANSON If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to ...
QURAN No matter what, we have to keep moving forward, even if we have to crawl.
KELLIE ELMORE We don't want to get rid of paper ballots no matter what we're accused of. Some people are adamant t...
JOSH LISS If you are so afraid of losing something or being rejected, you already give up before trying,only t...
RENATE VULLINGS If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
VINCE LOMBARDI If I keep pushing myself, I’ll finally be somebody. I’ll finally matter. I’ll finally arrive.�...
KEVIN DEYOUNG Even when someone you love has passed, you have to keep living no matter what. You only get one life...
ZEPPELIN HARLOW ROSE They really want to get out of this case already because ... no matter what, even if you are under U...
BENJAMIN FORMOSO They want to finish the season. They want to finish it with heads held high and I believe they will....
BRIAN CLEMENS How does somebody know you love them if you keep it to yourself.
SAMANTHA If you dont like me, Walk away , Matter of fact Run Away
VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For wher...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For wher...
SAINT AUGUSTINE If you are feeling low, or trampled, unappreciated, or forgotten...and you are reading this, realize...
TOM ALTHOUSE I don't know when was the last time you heard these words or if you even have heard them before, but...
PHILIP T. M. Never let your secrets to anyone,
when you can not keep them to yourself,
You can not expect someone...
KEERTHI RADHAKRISHNA JALIGAM Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul.
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN They can't win no matter which way they turn, because the ordinances don't allow them to do anything...
REBECCA WIGGINS RELATIONSHIPS ARE LIKE CARS, SOMEWHERE AT SOME POINT THEY ARE GOING TO BREAK DOWN...AND IF YOU DON'T...
FAITH LONDON Now we come to forgiveness. Don't worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important thing...
MARGARET ATWOOD Imagine for a moment as if you had never existed:
Would the ones who are closest to you be happier o...
AVIS JOHN Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
VINCE LOMBARDI Keep your secrets to yourself, they may be friends today and become enemies tomorrow..
OLASOT Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis complet...
MAXWELL MALTZ It's important to keep them interested in fishing because if you don't they won't be fishing when th...
RANDY SCHNEIDER Let your children go if you want to keep them.
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES Let your children go if you want to keep them.
MALCOLM S. FORBES Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up wha...
ROY T. BENNETT You are your best teacher if you keep questioning yourself.
HARESH SIPPY When you see yourself struggling, keep pushing. It shows you are doing something. Dont give up, you ...
MLUNGISI SIMELANE They say if you wanted to talk to someone, you would of.. no matter what. But if that someone wanted...
CADIR LAMPE It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I ...
NANCY WERLIN These seeds will always be tulips, even if at the moment you cannot tell them apart from other flowe...
PAULO COELHO No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child a...
JOHN CASSAVETES If you remix, people want to tap into your sound. If you keep that to yourself, it makes the sound m...
TIESTO Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.
MATT LUCAS If you keep on eating unhealthy food than no matter how many weight loss tips you follow, you are li...
SUBODH GUPTA He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forge...
GARY PAULSEN If the subject matter isn't inherently interesting - accounting comes to mind - I've got to make it ...
ALLAN SLOAN Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a c...
VERONICA ROTH I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's ve...
JAMES CAMERON If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with - if you keep it out, it's not...
MARK LAWRENSON If looks and physical beauty do not matter why is everyone so offended if you tell them they are not...
CARL WHITE If you have business expenses, they must be for 2 percent of your income if you want to deduct them....
GAIL WINAWER He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forge...
GARY PAULSEN IF you want to no how someone feels if they have any illness no matter how severe it is .The only wa...
GARY F EVANS... It would be a bigger stage, but there is pressure everywhere. If you don't win sooner or later, they...
RICK TOMBERLIN If you've to keep your mouth shut, then keep your mouth shut, no matter what you're feeling.
SARVESH JAIN People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going...
CHARLES MCCARRY Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
ARTHUR BRISBANE If you keep my secret, this strawberry is yours.
TSUGUMI OHBA If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?
KALPANA CHAWLA Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. T...
FRANK CRANE Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either...
FRANK CRANE If you miss a smile of a friend you will feel how harder it’s. Distance is no matter keep friends ...
PALITHA ARIYARATHNA The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep...
NATALIE PORTMAN Don't call yourself a secret
unless you mean to keep it.
LEONARD COHEN If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself.
DAVID STRICKLAND It does not matter how slowly you go but it does matter if you succumb to obstacle & challenges.It w...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ Listen earnestly to anything [your children] want to tell you, no matter what. If you don't listen e...
CATHERINE M. WALLACE If I do find out the Secret,I won't be able to tell it to you-you know that right?And that doesn't m...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come t...
WALT DISNEY COMPANY It is known all over the world that there are no secrets in the ghetto and as long as you keep those...
FELIX ALEXANDER I tell everyone that they have to keep working. There were some reserves in there, and they have to ...
RUSTY OLIVER They rest for 10 hours a night, and if you keep them awake longer, they need to sleep more.
GIULIO TONONI Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. T...
FRANK CRANE The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW And I just want to tell you, at some point it doesn’t matter who was right and who was wrong. At s...
JONATHAN TROPPER They seem like simple subjects at first glance, but you want to keep looking because of the complica...
KATHY FOSTER I know people who always travel a little off the path. They are never quite able to follow direction...
FAWN ARRINGTON But the heaviest things, I think, are the secrets. They can drown you if you let them.
ALLY CARTER The demonstrations were something we don't want to see. This matter will not affect business. If you...
LIU JINPING Some things are so real you can feel them to your core. It doesn't matter where you go, they go with...
JESSICA SHIRVINGTON Dont GiVe UP iF U StIll WaNna TrY*
DonT WIpE YOUR TeARS IF YOU StiLL WANT TO Cry
DON'T SET...
TRENT REZNOR Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but ...
TIM THARP I know life well enough to know you can’t count on things staying around or standing still, no mat...
JENNIFER NIVEN The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS There are some good sitters out there, you just need to find them and keep them,
FAMILY TREE Now you have to pay a good framer $30 an hour if you want to keep them.
KRASS DEGEORGE It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy...
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LEMONY SNICKET There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frigh...
LEMONY SNICKET Scolding must be very, very fun, otherwise children would be allowed to do it. It is not because chi...
LEMONY SNICKET So you’re reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It’s like having feet. I...
LEMONY SNICKET The children of this world and the adults of this world are in entirely separate boats and only drif...
LEMONY SNICKET A mystery is solved with a story.
LEMONY SNICKET I’m reminded of a book my father used to read me,” she said. “A bunch of elves and things get ...
LEMONY SNICKET You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage ...
LEMONY SNICKET Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will e...
LEMONY SNICKET There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of pap...
LEMONY SNICKET Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it befo...
LEMONY SNICKET They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire...
LEMONY SNICKET How clever of you to figure that out,' said a voice at the top of the stairs, and Violet, and Klaus ...
LEMONY SNICKET I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do...
LEMONY SNICKET There is nothing wrong with crying at the end of a long day.
LEMONY SNICKET being skeptical is a good thing for a journalist, because it means you don't completely trust anyone...
LEMONY SNICKET There are people in the world who care about automobiles, and there are people who couldn't care les...
LEMONY SNICKET Perhaps I had been in another world before I was born, and did not remember it, or perhaps I would s...
LEMONY SNICKET There are many mysteries I have never solved, and the hair of my chaperone is perhaps my most curiou...
LEMONY SNICKET It is never seven that you count to, before you do something difficult. It is never at the count of ...
LEMONY SNICKET The three of us stood there for a minute. I don’t know what Stew was thinking, and the filing cabi...
LEMONY SNICKET When you need a haircut, it looks like you have no one to take care of you.
LEMONY SNICKET I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, ...
LEMONY SNICKET They can teach you anything. That doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it.
LEMONY SNICKET The trick to following someone without getting caught is to follow somebody who doesn't think they'r...
LEMONY SNICKET I thought the war was a simple matter, with one side good and the other evil. But the more I read, t...
LEMONY SNICKET Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get yo...
LEMONY SNICKET Of course you can trust me," Jake Hix said. "We read the same books.
LEMONY SNICKET It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger.
LEMONY SNICKET Nobody should feel pain all by themselves.
LEMONY SNICKET It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought,...
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