Quotes About Covert

When Hale's hand disappeared inside his tuxedo jacket, Macey wasn't exactly sure what he'd find inside the pocket. It could have been another phone or a breath mint. Really, nothing would have surprised her. Well nothing except... "Is that an earbud?" she whispered. He smiled. "Are you on comms?" "Shhh," he told her softly.

Hale looked at Macey, who added, "Seven minutes since shots fired." "Kat what's the emergency response tie in Midtown Manhattan?" "Not long enough if they want a clean exit," she told him. Macey hadn't heard Kat's words, but she looked at Hale like she'd read his mind.

Every good operative knows that the world is small, but the planet is big.

They stayed in the Shadows. But shadows are the perfect place from which to watch, to see.

That's the thing about spies, most of the secrets we keep are from each other

Yo tengo un amigo que dice que no hay vida como la clandestinidad. Ni tan mala ni, sobre todo, tan buena.

porque nada une tanto como la clandestinidad compartida

No hay vida como la clandestinidad. Ni tan buena ni, sobre todo, tan mala.

For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.

Ninjas are so cool!

On a bus ride through China, my family and I had talked for hours before a police officer boarded to conduct an inspection. My mother and brother couldn't speak Chinese, so they pretended to be deaf and mute, and none of the Chinese passengers said anything, sparing us.

Mostly, Sub Rosas are the people regular people aren't supposed to know about. It's not that we don't like you; it's that you have a habit of burning us at the stake when you notice us.

Tyranny is always and everywhere the same, while freedom is always various. The well and truly enslaved are dependable; we know what they will say and think and do. The free are quirky. Tyrannies may be overt and violent or covert and insidious, but they all require the same thing, a subject population in which the power of the word is dulled and, thus, the power of thought occluded and the power of deed brought low.

There are many manipulators highly skilled in telling "big" lies and thus in making those lies seem true. For example, if one studies the history of the CIA, one can document any number of unethical deeds that have been covered up by lies (see any volume of Covert Action Quarterly for documentation of the misdeeds and dirty tricks of the CIA in every region of the world).14 Virtually all of these unethical acts were officially denied at the time of their commission. Dirty

Es otro campo de aterrizaje secreto?

Bursting into flame would definitely blow my cover.

In reality, the primary paradigm of the Nice Guy Syndrome is nothing more than a big covert contract with life. Breaking

The country and culture commonly known as America had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.

The culture known as "America" had a split personality throughout its history. Its laws were puritanical; its covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were Apollonian; its revivals were almost Dionysian. In the twentieth century (Terran Christian Era) nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed—and nowhere was there such deep interest in it.

Hawk and I lay behind the rock

Pike unscrewed the interior light so it wouldn't come on, then left the car. It was full-on dark now, and Pike enjoyed the darkness. Darkness, rain, snow, a storm—anything that hid you was good. He circled the house to check the windows, then slipped back onto the porch and let himself in.

Three g's, and an r: Get in, get the info, get out, relocate.

Your mortal's storming the slaver den. Aric's tone was half-amused, half-approving. I'm hereby inviting myself on his incursion.

It's much less romantic in that you have to go to www.cia.gov and click "Apply Now." For me it was much more clandestine.