Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Fulton J. Sheen
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Strange, weird things that no man may say, things Humanity hides away; secretly done, catch the light of the living day.
Laurence Hope
I don't think anyone ever fathomed, even in the intelligence community, how sophisticated their training was, how well-prepared they were and how they were working away secretly in imparting this advice.
Magnus Ranstorp
But seduction isn't making someone do what they don't want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.
Waiter Rant
Everyone secretly wants the chance to fulfill a lifelong wish that seems beyond their grasp — and this show will help transform those dreams into a life-changing reality.
Jeff Gaspin
The president cannot use the pursuit of national security as a carte blanche to undermine the very freedoms that define America. This administration - like that of President Nixon - has apparently secretly adopted a legal view of the Executive Branch's power that is unbounded. A commitment to the Constitution and our laws demand an independent investigation.
Caroline Fredrickson
RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. It is said to be rich in both obtundite and lethargine, and is brewed in a midnight fog by a fat which of the Dismal Swamp.
Ambrose Bierce
This administration, like that of President Nixon, has apparently secretly adopted a legal view of the executive branch's power that is unbounded.
Caroline Fredrickson
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
John Maynard Keynes
What's debatable is these guys meeting secretly and deciding what they are going to do out of public view. We decided there was only one way to deal with these guys and that was to sue them. They were not going to change their ways.
David Slipy
You're asking me to choose between two children, the one that pays more and the one that I secretly love more. With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out; with the music, there's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.
Jack Black
There are some new requirements, but I don't think that the gist of the old law has changed. They don't want quorums meeting (secretly), and we'll make sure that that doesn't happen.
Pat Thomas
ALONE, adj. In bad company. In contact, lo! the flint and steel, By spark and flame, the thought reveal That he the metal, she the stone, Had cherished secretly alone. Booley Fito.
Ambrose Bierce
Secretly part of me has always wanted to try cocaine, but I just couldn't imagine sniffing anything up my nose. It seems like that would hurt.
Halle Berry
This is a situation like the Web, where information is secretly collected without any discussion of whether it is a good idea.
David Banisar
It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it; people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it; and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.
Dr. Smiley Blanton
We really try to make it special. Everybody waits all night for the baby to be born - we try to make it an event. I bet the moms are secretly competitive, too.
Serena Kow
When David says that 12-foot blood-drinking child-sacrificing pedophile lizards secretly rule the world, he really is referring to lizards.
Jon Ronson
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.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
That was a key move, it was my assistant coach (Melissa) Briggs' idea. I didn't want to do it because Mari is so good offensively, but I couldn't find anyone who could do it. I have secretly wanted to play Mari on defense all year because she is just so good back there.
Allen Carlson
We're secretly trying to find a loophole that will allow those girls to stay and play for a fifth year. But it's not looking like it's going to happen.
Brad Warze
Though the opposition parties, which have no ideology or morality in politics, have been crying themselves hoarse about failure of a grand alliance, they could enter into an alliance secretly.
Jyoti Basu
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.
John Osborne
No one's as nice as they want to be. Even if they may act it, in their heart of hearts they know when they experience ill will toward another and secretly wish to carry it out.
Kassandra Charbonneau
It's intolerable that e-mail can be used to silently zap a name tag onto you that might be scanned by a site you visit later. It's like secretly bar-coding people with invisible ink.
Jason Catlett
There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.
William Least Heat Moon
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.
Natasha Josefowitz
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.
Walter De La Mare
The breadth of the charges reflects the serious and widespread nature of the problem. The indictment not only targets the brokers who exploit the investing public but also the dishonest company insiders who secretly profit from the illegal schemes, the money launderers who conceal the illicit gains and the organized crime members and associates who protect and promote the illegal enterprise.
Loretta Lynch
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