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Quotes About Clandestine

If all the fish in the sea kept their mouths shut, they'd never get caught" is an often repeated mantra in the world of organized crime.
~ Philip Carlo
I like working in the shadows.
~ Michael Capuano
Where had the Taras and Megans and Ians come from? Buried in his work, had he missed some clandestine migration of Celts from across the sea?
~ Aaron Elkins
Ninjas are so cool!
~ Adrianne Palicki
You must never underestimate the power of the surreptitious.
~ Prof.Salam Al Shereida
So.... You are well equipped for our service.' 'Which is?' 'We kill people.
~ R.L. LaFevers
What 'Clandestino' is talking about is problems of borders, and more and more hermetic borders all around the world.
~ Manu Chao
How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried myself with more abandon in your loosened hair. How we waste our afflictions! We study them, stare out beyond them into bleak continuance, hoping to glimpse some end. Whereas they're really our wintering foliage, our dark greens of meaning, one of the seasons of the clandestine year -- ; not only a season --: they're site, settlement, shelter, soil, abode.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
But we were powerless too, because they did have those chariots and archers and suits of armor, and until me, no Israelite could win a pitched battle on low ground without employing some clandestine or psychological device or receiving supernatural assistance in the form of some rare aberration of nature.
~ Joseph Heller
Do you have some big secret life I don't know about?' Connor jokes. 'Who would be calling you at midnight?' 'I have no idea,' I reply. 'But I'm pretty sure I only have one secret life.
~ Wendy Mass
with the key taped inside the left-rear wheel well.
~ Daniel Silva
The CIA program known as "extraordinary rendition," the practice of clandestinely transferring suspected terrorists from one country to another for the purposes of incarceration or interrogation, has been well documented. It was put into place not by President George W. Bush but by his predecessor, Bill Clinton.
~ Daniel Silva
I can be whoever you want me to be: CIA, FBI, DIA, an agency so fucking secret you've never heard of it before." -Gabriel Allon
~ Daniel Silva
Despite everything he'd learned and witnessed firsthand, it called to him as much as hunger or thirst. A movement up on the left wall of the South Door caught his attention. Startled, he reacted quickly, looking just in time to see a flash of silver. A patch of ivy shook
~ James Dashner
The arrangement, temporary or otherwise, was usually public and acknowledged when at the highest level; only when it was clandestine and conducted to the injury of legitimate relatives did it become untenable in the oblique moral eye of society.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
THIS TIME THERE would be no witnesses.
~ Douglas Adams
Trudno o co? równie niechwytnego, równie trudnego do zlokalizowania, jak ?ród?o plotki.
~ Agata Christie
The typists might have been so many blackbeetles.
~ Agatha Christie
There were moments when Szara suspected that many idealists drawn to Communism were, at heart, people with an appetite for clandestine life.
~ Alan Furst
Andrew Warren was a rarity in the CIA's Clandestine Service - African-American, fluent in Arabic, and relatively young for an agent who'd already spent nearly a decade chasing terrorists in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq and Algeria, so deep undercover that few of his friends or family knew the nature of his work.
~ Michael Hastings
Madrid es tener un gabán que abriga mucho y con el que se puede ir tranquilo hasta a los entierros con relente. Madrid es no admitir lo gótico. Madrid es la improvisación y la tenacidad. Madrid es quedarse alegre sin dinero y no saber cómo se pudo comprar lo que se tiene en casa. Madrid es un lugar de pocas palmeras. Madrid es presenciar cómo los churreros hacen los churros como si hiciesen monedas falsas, algo clandestino en la noche, pero legítimo en la mañana.
~ Ramón Gómez de la Serna
If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.
~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Secrets...are the very root of cool.
~ William Gibson
The real mystery isn't what's under the redaction mark, but what's above it.
~ The Covert Comic