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Tag Name "Secretly" (242)

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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.
Jerome Corsi
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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.
Sprague Grayden
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Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.
K.J. Parker
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Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
J. K. Rowling
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Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing.
Sylvia Plath
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Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!
Sigourney Weaver
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Secretly, or maybe not so secretly, I've always wanted to be a rock star.
Cobie Smulders
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
Zooey Deschanel
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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).
John Connolly
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There's a thing about cocaine - when I was doing it secretly, it didn't make me very sociable. I forget how others were, but it made me very inner-directed. So being in a sketch and rehearsing and the hail fellow well met camaraderie and all that stuff, I couldn't fake that or force that. It was painful.
George Carlin
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The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
John Updike
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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.
George Santayana
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It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is ever satisfied with anything save incense, butter, and honey, unrelieved by salt or spice.
Gertrude Atherton
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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.
Gregory Heisler
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Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over all the rest of mathematics. In one respect this last point is accurate.
David Mumford
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Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship.
Helen Fisher
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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.
David Whyte
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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.
Honore de Balzac
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Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.
Deborah Meier
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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.
Isaac Asimov
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It was always exciting, but it was also always dangerous. And fear takes a toll finally: when you live in danger from moment to moment, the constant tension becomes very wearying. Every step I took on the roads of Gelderland was nerve-wracking, because I was secretly carrying the very material that could turn out to be my own death warrant.
Diet Eman
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And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant
J. M. Coetzee
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It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
Don Marquis
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The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors that which it loves, and also that which it fears. It reaches the height of its cherished aspirations. It falls to the level of its unchastened desires - and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.
James Allen
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