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Quotes About Covert

There's an often-repeated phrase in the hidden
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
That's kind of the point of being stealthy. And if he doesn't catch you, then you're not doing anything wrong, are you?" That sounded true. That sounded very true!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
covert rituals.
~ Paul Theroux
I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.
~ Jill Soloway
She works in the intelligence field. They're trained to lie and sell it like the truth. They obviously undergo the same indoctrination as politicians.
~ David Baldacci
fifteen major intelligence agencies eating up 50 billion in budget dollars a year spread over 120,000 employees
~ David Baldacci
Magick comes in many forms, and there are many covert master magicians who are so covert that they don't even know they are magicians.
~ Christopher Penczak
Kalau menghendaki mata-mata yang hebat, berilah aku seorang pelacur yang baik. Mereka sangat baik dalam tugasnya.
~ Cindy Adams
Arriving back home, I didn't start to read it. I pretended I didn't have it, in order to have, later, the shock of discovering it. I opened it hours later, had a few marvelous lines, closed it again, walked around the house, put it off even more by going to eat a piece of bread with butter, pretended I didn't know where I had left it, found it, opened it for a few instants. I created the most false sense for that covert thing that was joy. Joy would always be covert for me.
~ Clarice Lispector
Team within the United States, such operations had to be kept secret because the CIA was prohibited by its Charter from carrying out operations in the United States.
~ Unknown
Sam: You know what I wish? Cassel: What? Sam: That someone would covert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for me.
~ Holly Black
Again the institution of slavery is only mentioned in the Constitution of the United States two or three times, and in neither of these cases does the word "slavery" or "negro race" occur; but covert language is used each time, and for a purpose full of significance.
~ Unknown
First I walked into a trap and nearly turned into the Inhuman Torch, and then a man I had regarded as a foot soldier in the war against intelligence turned out to be a covert general—and to top it off, he was apparently in league with the last few living pieces of my nemesis, Sergeant Doakes, and he seemed very likely to take up where Doakes had left off, in the pursuit of poor persecuted Dexter. Where would this end?
~ Jeff Lindsay
Interested in some 'undercover' work? And to think, I was actually having a tender thought about you. Do yourself a favor, Steele…Become mute.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
~ Aaron Swartz
Espionage is the world's second oldest profession.
~ Unknown
Our side has agents. Their side has spies.
~ Unknown
Good tradecraft keeps espionage routine and boring.
~ Unknown
Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business.
~ Sun Tzu
The widow employed her woman's malice to devise a system of covert persecution.
~ Honore de Balzac
His book The Nemesis Affair (New York: W. W. Norton, 1986), tells the story of how he and a colleague developed the
~ Unknown
To follow somebody, without them knowing that you're doing it, is not the doddle they make it seem in films. I've had some experience of professional following, and a lot more experience of professional going back to the office and saying 'we lost him'. Unless your quarry is deaf, tunnel-sighted and lame, you need at least a dozen people and fifteen thousand quids-worth of short-wave radio to make a decent go of it.
~ Hugh Laurie
While there are good arguments to be made that a large number of cattle mutilations are actually a covert monitoring operation for infectious diseases—diseases that are deemed necessary by the agriculture and health authorities to keep under wraps for fear of scaring the public—
~ Unknown
It takes a lot more energy to be covert and sneaky than it does to be open and honest.
~ Unknown