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Quotes About Covert

When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
~ Oliver North
verbal abuse is an issue of control, a means of holding power over another. This abuse may be overt or covert, constant, controlling, and what Bach and Deutsch (1980) call "crazymaking.
~ Unknown
In some cases, the partner of an abuser may eventually come to the conclusion that something is wrong in the relationship but not know what it is. This is most common if the abuser is covert. The abuser may quietly counter nearly every comment and enthusiasm the partner expresses.
~ Unknown
The underlying premise of this book is that verbal abuse is an issue of control, a means of holding power over another. This abuse may be overt or covert, constant, controlling, and what Bach and Deutsch (1980) call "crazymaking.
~ Unknown
Racism didn't magically go away just because we refuse to talk about it. Rather, overt racial language is replaced by covert racial euphemisms that reference the same phenomena-talk of "niggers" and "ghettos" becomes replaced by phrases such as "urban," "welfare mothers," and "street crime." Everyone knows what these terms mean, and if they don't, they quickly figure it out.
~ Patricia Hill Collins
Are you ready? You and I are going to break into the Kremlin. - Amy, to Dan
~ Patrick Carman
And it was a secret thing, of sorts. I have always had a weakness for secrets.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
The human anal cavity has traditionally been a smuggler favorite for most of our existence on Earth.
~ Peter F. Hamilton