Quotes About Clandestine

There is always another secret.

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

The clandestine alliance between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan was grounded in history. Each was a young, insecure nation that saw Islam as central to its identity. Pakistani troops had been hired by the Saudis in the past for security deployments in the kingdom. The Saudi air force had secretly provided air cover over Karachi during Pakistan's 1971 war with India.4

We investigate in secret so that we don't smear innocent people.

Ley Seca no tuvo ningún efecto perceptible en la demanda de cerveza, vino y licores; especialmente en Nueva York, donde se estimaba que las 16.000 tabernas que existían en la ciudad antes de la aprobación de la Ley Volstead habían sido reemplazadas por 32.000 bares clandestinos.

Yo albergaba la teoría de que el único lugar de Nueva York donde la gente podía encontrar amor y romanticismo era en la comunidad gay. Los homosexuales eran amigos con exuberancia y pasión, mientras que el amor hetero se había vuelto clandestino.

It was a crude destructive attack without any of the clandestine finesse that usually characterized warfare in our field — it was as if someone had decided to conclude a game of chess by blasting all the pieces off the board with a fire hose.

Bond broke into his warehouse one night and left a thermite bomb. He then went and sat in a café a mile away and watched the flames leap above the horizon of roof-tops and listened to the silver cascade of the fire-brigade bells.

Major Smythe remembered the hoary euphemism for the Secret Service. He said, with forced cheerfulness, 'Oh. The old firm?

Castro has lived almost his entire life as a clandestine revolutionary. To such figures, truth is always malleable, always subservient to political goals.

The measure of the perfect theft is when the victim remains blissfully unaware that he or she has been stolen from.

Our race is famous for its cabals within cabals.

He had a secret life of which she knew nothing.

This is a secretive age. Our secrets are our weapons. Think of South Africa, those clandestine meetings. Think of the covertness of families. Think of love. How else can we express mutiny but by the burial of our unspoken thoughts?

When I was 12 years old, I was obsessed with codes, conspiracies, and secret messages.

It is part of an old and clandestine drama for which the human body serves only as a set of very allusive, often cryptic programme-notes -- it's as if the body we can measure is a scrap of this programme found outside in the street, near a magnificent stone theatre we cannot enter.

Smack of conspiracy

Everyone here seems to have some weird secret or other.

It's all someone else's secret.

Behind the scenes there is a secretive, undeclared war of revenge that's already under way.

really I'm thinking about Plutarch showing off his pretty, one-of-a-kind watch to me. There was something strange about it. Almost clandestine. But why? Maybe he thinks someone else will steal his idea of putting a disappearing mockingjay on a watch face. Yes, he probably paid a fortune for it and now he can't show it to anyone because he's afraid someone will make a cheap, knockoff version. Only in the Capitol.

Al llegar a Roma respiré, y pensé que comenzaría una época feliz para nosotros. No tenía motivos para pensarlo, pero lo hice. Teníamos un alojamiento en los alrededores de la plaza Bologna. Leone dirigía un periódico clandestino y estaba siempre fuera de casa. Lo detuvieron a los veinte días de nuestra llegada y no lo vi nunca más.

A week after the celebration, on June 28, 187 members of Kompani Linge, with Poulsson and Rønneberg in the lead, paraded in uniform before King Haakon. Of their select unit, fifty-one had died during the war. The king paid tribute to the men and their clandestine work.

the truth was that I had become a secret agent because I could not bear for another minute the pointlessness of life in the real world.