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Quotes About Stealth

Be open where you can and stealthy where you must
~ George R.R. Martin
she ducked from her doorway and pressed on, neither too fast nor too slow, soft bootheels silent on the dewy cobbles, her unexceptional hood drawn down to an inconspicuous degree, the very image of a person with just the average amount to hide.
~ George R.R. Martin
Mindig a láthatatlan ellenség a legfélelmetesebb.
~ George R.R. Martin
cautioning Roger upon pain of death not to utter a sound, we made our way cautiously into the villa and slipped like shadows into my bedroom.
~ Gerald Durrell
I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.
~ Barry Eisler
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
War is food and drink and disease and patience and anger and hate and cold and stealth and terror as well as sweet silver and bitter iron and the glitter of arms in the sun or under the moon.
~ Miles Cameron, The Dread Wyrm
It is while tracking that the hunter exhibits his true skill.
~ Tasha Alexander
I spent a whole career infiltrating places.
~ Dan Crenshaw
Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.
~ Joe Haldeman
Unfortunately, this category of secret is itself so secret that it's very existance is secret, and he can't actually reveal it to anyone.
~ Neal Stephenson
Waterhouse's new roommate is out of town just now, but by glancing over his personal effects, Waterhouse estimates that he is paddling a black kayak from Australia to Yokosuka Naval Base, where he will slip on board a battleship and silently kill its entire crew with his bare hands before doing an Olympic-qualifying dive into the bay, punching out a few sharks, climbing back into his kayak and paddling back to Australia for a beer.
~ Neal Stephenson
Like any librarian in Reality, this daemon can move around without audible footfalls.
~ Neal Stephenson
Ty got the feeling, from cues in the Teklan's physique and general style of movement, that he was some manner of Snake Eater.
~ Neal Stephenson
When you're undercover, you have to be a jack-of-all-trades. I've been everything from a cook to a chemical warfare specialist—though in the Army that's not such a big difference.
~ Nelson DeMille
I'm always moving around. It's hard for offenses to get a grip on what I'm doing or where I'm at.
~ Tyrann Mathieu
There's something mysterious about ninjas because they're deadly and they're scary.
~ Ray Park
She eluded detection and relieved the rebels of one of their hyperspace-capable vessels.
~ Christie Golden
Above all other things, GhostWalkers were enhanced to be able to disappear into the night, fade into darkness and remain undetected by an enemy no matter how close they got to him- or her.
~ Christine Feehan
What a transfiguration it is to love! And the little shrieks, the pursuits in the grass, the waists encircled by stealth, the jargon that is melody, the adoration that breaks through in the way a syllable is said, those cherries snatched form one pair of lips by another - It all catches fire and turns into celestial glories.
~ Victor Hugo
Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze? A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze.
~ Victor Hugo
Il n'y a rien de tel pour épier les actions des gens que ceux qu'elles ne regardent pas.
~ Victor Hugo
She had slit a tiny opening in the lining and slipped the thick envelope inside of it.
~ Kristin Hannah
If I don't want to be seen, you don't see me.
~ L. J. Smith