Quotes About Secrecy

Visto despuès, podría parecer un modo extraño de empezar una guerra. Solo uno de los implicados sabía de lo que de verdad sucedía, y por casualidad

It wasn't an epidemic yet because no one knew about it.

The Americans are always investigating one another, it was their national sport.

The first rumors about Zenith came from the Czechoslovakians.

It's all about intelligence; and intelligence comes down to a bunch of faceless bureaucrats sifting through all this crap.

The Kealty administration had promised more "openness" and "transparency" in the clandestine CIA. Jack Junior's father had written an op-ed in The Washington Post that suggested, in a manner that was still respectful to the office of the presidency, that Ed Kealty might want to look up the word clandestine in the dictionary.

the problem with so secure a place was that it depended absolutely on secrecy which, once blown, became a fatal liability

midnight kill. "Next, we have to see

So, we never even knew that they were here, but the militia captain with our team did, and he kind of blurted it out. His exact words were, 'My God, the Politburo's in there!

A" would go out to everybody, while "B" would go only to those people who were supposed to survive, people who understood what it was all about, or who would accept their survival and get on with things with the rest of the crew.

Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide.

I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.

People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark.

Amy dragged her eyes over Sethe's face as though she would never give out so confidential a piece of information as that to a perfect stranger.

She opened the door, walked in and locked it tight behind her.

Nobody ever sees a cook eat anything.

They would discuss the slapping but not the pregnancy and certainly not the girl with sapphires hidden in her shoes.

Anything you got to do with your own kind in secret, something's wrong with it. You feel bad about it inside.

Jack grabbed Phil's arm to teleport back to Romatech. Phil muttered a curse. "If you say one word about this to the other guys, I will stake you in your sleep." "Don't worry, sweetheart. If they find out about this, I'll stake myself.

Zo snel kon het gaan: een paar dagen geleden had ik me nog beklaagd over het geheimzinnige gedoe van de Wachters en nu richtte ik zelf een geheim genootschap op. Het ontbrak er nog maar aan dat ik vroeg of iedereen bij het verlaten van mijn kamer een blinddoek wilde voorbinden.

Perhaps the most useful lesson of coevolution for "wannabe" gods is that in coevolutionary worlds control and secrecy are counterproductive.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

And elliptically, they talked about their work. They

He lowered the blinds too, enough to give him cover should one of Brabham's people choose to look out of the window. And then he settled in for the wait.