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Quotes About Covert

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~ Shelly Laurenston
The mug had World's Best Secret Agent on one side and Please Don't Tell Anyone on the other. My
~ Simon R. Green
Since most cyberwar is conducted covertly, governments avoid any public acknowledgment of their own abilities and shy away from engaging in any sort of 'cyber diplomacy.' Statecraft conducted in secret fails to create public norms for deterrence.
~ Jared Cohen
I think we all have a little dark side we keep under wraps.
~ Fred Savage
Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
~ Ian Hacking
I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.
~ Mary Wesley
Hence it is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for purposes of spying and thereby they achieve great results. Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move.
~ Sun Tzu
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. An army without secret agents is exactly like a man without eyes or ears.
~ Sun Tzu
Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move.
~ Sun Tzu
Defeat your enemy from within.
~ Sun Tzu
But unspoken family rules are like phantom puppeteers, pulling invisible strings and demanding blind obedience. They are unseen, covert rules that exist below the level of awareness
~ Susan Forward
And they were without a useful deterrent. Enter General Wolff. He and his Nazi cohorts would shift their allegiance to the West and would arrange for an army of some 5,000 anti-Communists of Eastern European and Russian descent. After espionage training at a camp called Oberammergau, the army of spies would cover Europe, undertaking a covert battle against Communism.
~ Judith L. Pearson
surreptitiously watching
~ Julia London
Everyone has secrets. Especially me.
~ Julia Quinn
I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.
~ Henry Paulson
He kept low and darted to another tree. He looked, he assumed, rather doofy - a guy six feet four inches tall and comfortably over two hundred pounds darting between bushes like something left on the cutting room floor of The Dirty Dozen.
~ Harlan Coben
The operator whispered something in the man's ear.
~ Harlan Coben
So this is your secret locale?" He shrugged. "Why here?" Then, thinking about it: "Wait, I get it. Because it's so off the radar, right?" "That," Berleand agreed, "and I like looking at naked women." He
~ Harlan Coben
What I'm trying to do is to get a glimpse into the secret state that surrounds us all the time but that we have not trained ourselves to see very well.
~ Trevor Paglen
It's a simple truth that a secret is something you're ashamed of.
~ Deb Caletti
The FBI is plugged in with the NSA and the whole federal alphabet soup of agencies. They're cutting-edge when it comes to this. They're doing things the public has no idea about.
~ Michael Connelly
What she cared about, suddenly, was this rogue group of patriots who were working behind the scenes to save the country.
~ Michael Lewis
The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.
~ John Scarlett
He looked serious—worried, Erin decided—but as he crossed the street, his expression changed. He tilted his visored cap over one eye and leaned through the open car window. The coast is clear, sister, he said in a gangster whisper. Drop my raincoat over the loot, and I'll smuggle it in.
~ Betty Ren Wright