#secretly

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

— Fulton J. Sheen

#competition #dreads #fears #pride #rivals

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. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#always #betrayal #espionage #finding #give

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. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#always #appreciate #day #different #felt

I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors. ↗

— Stephen Baldwin

#behind #closed #died #doors #i

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. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#either #i #in print #influenced #me

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

#be true #compassion #despair #faith #generals

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

— John Maynard Keynes

#continuing #government #important #inflation #part

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

#adventurers #find #go #hoping #kinds

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#bugged #burglars #caught #clues #concrete

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

— Edna O'Brien

#either #emotional #fathers #mothers #reserved