And what made these heart-to-hearts possible--you might even say what made the whole friendship possible during that time--was this understanding we had that anything we told each other during these moments would be treated with careful respect: that we'd honor confidences, and that no matter how much we rowed, we wouldn't use against each other anything we'd talked about during those sessions.
Quotes about confidences (14 Quotes)
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book a good head cannot read amiss in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
Its in the kitchen that confidences are exchanged, that family life takes place its among the remains of a meal or when yourre elbow-deep in peelings that you ask yourself what life is all about, rather than when youre sunk in an armchair in the sitting room.
He probably forgets he wrote a book for profit and (revealed everybody's confidences). So he has no credibility.
Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.
The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
Marriage requires the giving and keeping of confidences, the sharing of thoughts and feelings, respect and understanding always, marriage requires humility the humility to repent, the humility to forgive. Marriage requires flexibility (to give and take) and firmness not to compromise principles. And a wise and moderate sense of humor. Both need to be pulling together in the same direction.
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
Every attorney is mandated by law and by ethics to maintain the confidences and secrets in every file until the file is turned over to a successor attorney. Every attorney has the obligation to ensure that the attorney that's taking over the file does not have a conflict of interest relating to that file.
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
Ten years after she sipped her first Chardonnay and began spilling her confidences to an adoring public, Bridget Jones is coming back her diary will return today to The Independent of London. After a column by Helen Fielding came the international best-selling Bridget Jones novels and the popular Bridget Jones movies. Where has she been since 1997 ... Is she shacked up with Mark at last Is she married Has she had a baby Has she visited California and laughed at rehab culture What does she think should be the correct attitude to Iraq Has she bought a peasant skirt this summer Has she gone off Jude Law Does she think the Duchess of Cornwall looks rather beautiful since she's gone legit.
The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind . . .
Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about