Quotes About Clandestine

The postcode did not look quite regular. Some hush-hush Trystero carrier?

Lucy frowned. "What's the Three-S rule?" "Shoot, shovel and shut up.

Personas de reconocida integridad colocadas en situaciones difíciles, maridos engañados> mujeres seducidas, partos clandestinos, he aquí los asuntos más comunes; y el que más enriquecía la Casa de Expósitos era siempre el más aplaudido.

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

would this scrap of leather have been mortared into the wall where no one would ever see it? Was it some kind of secret sign?

There's an often-repeated phrase in the hidden

covert rituals.

A secret society within a secret society.

There are secrets within secrets, though--always.

Criava as mais falsas dificuldades para aquela coisa clandestina que era a felicidade. A felicidade sempre iria ser clandestina para mim. Parece que eu já pressentia.

True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone.

within the CIA and its independence from supervision by the regular chain of command within the clandestine services made it possible for the activities of the Operation to stray over the bounds of the Agency's authority without the knowledge of senior officials.

Karate-chopping ninjas in a mudslide?" Tamara gave Aaron and Call a dark look. "Could you guys try to lay low?

If you are a crazy person who needs to have clandestine meetings, then, just like in real estate, what matters most is location, location, location.

Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told.

Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.

It's not that I have anything to hide—I've already hidden all of it—but

During the first months in Rome, my clandestine Italian diary is the only thing that consoles me, that gives me stability. Often, awake and restless in the middle of the night, I go to the desk to compose some paragraphs in Italian. It's an absolutely secret project. No one suspects, no one knows. I don't recognize the person who is writing in this diary, in this new, approximate language. But I know that it's the most genuine, most vulnerable part of me.

Espionage is the world's second oldest profession.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

The man had been the head of the postwar European operation called Aliyah Bet, the clandestine resettlement of the Jewish remnant of the Holocaust in Palestine. He had come to this position as a senior member of the Palmach, the fighting arm of the Haganah, which was the underground Jewish Army in Palestine, under the British Mandate.

Just because you don't announce your plan doesn't mean you don't have one.

As I pulled into the parking lot, I reflected that odds were that not a lot of clandestine meetings involving mystical assassination, theft of arcane power, and the balance of power in the realms of the supernatural had taken place in a Wal-Mart Super Center.

The real war happened when you weren't looking.