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Quotes About Stealth

Breaking into the house in the middle of the night just wasn't his style. He did his best work in plain view, and, usually, his tongue was doing most of it. Now that was an interesting thought. Heh.
~ Ilona Andrews
I loved ninjas when I was younger.
~ Rain
The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.
~ Annie Dillard
The measure of the perfect theft is when the victim remains blissfully unaware that he or she has been stolen from.
~ Steven Erikson
Conspiracy theories are resistant to falsification in that they postulate that conspirators use stealth and disinformation to cover up their actions, which implies that people who try to debunk conspiracy theories may, themselves, be part of the conspiracy (Douglas et al., 2017).
~ Steven Taylor
Secret operations are essential in war upon them the army relies to make its every move.
~ Sun Tzu
O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.
~ Sun Tzu
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
~ Sun Tzu
'Metal Gear Solid' is, for the most part, an infiltration game. You go somewhere, you execute your mission, then you go back. Those are your actions as the player.
~ Hideo Kojima
The mouse is safest when she doesn't leave footprints in the butter.
~ Nancy Farmer
Matt kept himself from shining the flashlight on him.
~ Nancy Farmer
The Wood knew I was here: even now its creatures were moving towards me, stealthy padding feet through the forest, walkers and wolves and worse things still. I suddenly was sure that there were things that never left the Wood at all, things so dreadful no one had ever seen them. And they were coming.
~ Naomi Novik
The fog comes on little cat feet.
~ Carl Sandburg
What ever you do-Don't get caught.
~ Catherine Jinks
We may suck at breaking in to places, but we're money at sneaking out !
~ Kathy Reichs
He left as silently as he'd come. Pierre LaManche favored crepe-soled shoes, kept his pockets empty so nothing jangled or swished. Like a croc in a river he arrived and departed unannounced by auditory cues. Some of the staff found it unnerving.
~ Kathy Reichs
he'd thought of fate as something hostile, a thief moving soundlessly in the night
~ Kay Hooper
He was working late to plant evidence that, he hoped, would lead to the arrest and conviction of a reprobate named Brantley "B. G." Myers. Planting evidence required stealth, skill, and planning. Cody was up for the job. In fact, it was one of his specialties.
~ C.J. Box
Once Akash set me up with invisibility and taught me some basic killing skills,
~ Geoff Rodkey
Entering the mainstream market is an act of burglary, of breaking and entering, of deception, often even of stealth.
~ Geoffrey A. Moore
Now we had two invisible intruders. Because one wasn't hard enough.
~ Ilona Andrews
As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.
~ William James
The Devil's boots don't creak.
~ Scottish Proverb
When one would make a surprise attack on the enemy, he should avoid the major roads and seek out the lesser ones. Then attack.
~ Takeda Nobushige