“A jury’s vote’s supposed to be secret. Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant.” – Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 23. Atticus cites a reason why people in Maycomb don’t want to serve on juries. He is suggesting here that they may have to confront their own racist ideas.
The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine. Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they were unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember. – Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Chapter 2. Victor is obsessed with discovering the secrets of nature.
Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has. – John Lubbock The Use of Life.
If you had an off switch, Doctor, would you not keep it secret? – Lt. Cmdr. Data Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Datalore’.
I am a gay man. It’s not a secret, but not something that everyone would necessarily know. – Leo Varadkar
For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. – George Orwell 1984. Part 3, Chapter 4. With the government spying on its people, Winston struggles to conceal old feelings from Big Brother.
The secret to multitasking is that it isn’t actually multitasking. It’s just extreme focus and organization. – Joss Whedon
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. – Horace Walpole
Obama and the Democrats were so critical of what Bush did, the interrogations, the secret prisons, Guantanamo and all of that, and even the war on terror. Obama won’t use the word. He’s made war on the war on terror. – Charles Krauthammer
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. – Aldous Huxley
Before Jason Bourne, before Jack Ryan, there was Bond, James Bond, the original two-dimensional, world-saving secret agent. – Alex Berenson
I’ve made no secret that although I loved being a legislator, I particularly loved being a chief executive. – Antonio Villaraigosa