Spy Quotes - Page 5

• Ships are blowing up at sea, or catching fire, factories are blowing up. Are these accidents? Are these industrial sabotage? No one really suspected a spy network.

  Howard Blum

  Fire, Sea, Ships

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• However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it.

  Christine Keeler

  Dresses, Proud

  Christine Keeler, Douglas Thompson (2012). “Secrets and Lies: Now Profumo is Dead, I Can Finally Reveal the Truth About the Most Shocking Scandal in British Politic”, p.18, John Blake Publishing

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• Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous thing they face is paper. Papers carry secrets. Papers carry death warrants. Papers like this one, this folio with its blurry eighteen year old faked missile photographs and estimates of time/survivor curves and pervasive psychosis ratios, can give you nightmares, dragging you awake screaming in the middle of the night.

  Charles Stross

  Thinking, Gun, Night

  "Toast: And Other Rusted Futures". Book by Charles Stross, 2002.

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• Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy.

  Mary Howitt

  Deception, Spiders, Littles

  'The Spider and the Fly' (1834)

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• If the CIA is going to disrupt future terrorist attacks, it needs to recruit spies to infiltrate those groups in order to disrupt the terrorist attacks. Not to rely on what you and I are putting in chat messages on Google or Apple.

  John Kiriakou

  Order, Apples, Google

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.

  Dana Delany

  Thinking, People, Notice Me

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• A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Military, War, Men

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• That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.

  Ally Carter

  Secret

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• The American Communist Party was notoriously infiltrated by informers, some working for the FBI, some for capitalist employers. At one time it used to be said that spies practically kept the Party going with their dues and contributions.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Party, Communism, Communist

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• So I stepped away, reminding myself that when you're a spy, sometimes all you can do is go on. One foot in front of the other, wherever the narrow path might lead.

  Ally Carter

  Feet, Goes On, Might

  Ally Carter (2013). “Gallagher Girls: United We Spy”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Istanbul, Drawing, Rooms

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• You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes, that refuses to impel men to spy on their neighbors, that protects its citizens vigorously from harmful acts while it leaves the remedies for objectionable ideas to counter-argument and time.

  Zechariah Chafee

  Wisdom, Country, Men

  Commission on Freedom of the Press, Zechariah Chafee (1947). “Government and Mass Communications”, Chicago : University of Chicago Press

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• From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

  Barry Eisler

  Thinking, Office, Exotic

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• Trust. We stake our lives on it, but it's a subject that not even the Gallagher Academy can teach. When do you let your guard down? Who do you let in? And I knew at that moment, as I sat beside my mother, bathing in the warm spring light, that those were the questions a good spy never stops asking

  Ally Carter

  Mother, Spring, Light

  Ally Carter (2008). “Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (B&N Custom Pub)”, Hyperion

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• "We're going to be okay." Here's the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your cover and keep your secrets, and right then I needed to believe that it was true even when all the facts said otherwise.

  Ally Carter

  Lying, Believe, Secret

  "United We Spy". Book by Ally Carter, September 5, 2013.

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• He had the air of a spy in a melodrama, missing nothing, liking nothing, looking forward to the great day when everything would be turned upside down.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Air, Missing, Great Day

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• The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.

  Cliff Stearns

  Technology, Balance, Purpose

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• We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

  Christine Keeler

  Talking, Digging, Graves

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• Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Guilt, President, Facts

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• When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them.

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Thinking, People

  "Harriet the Spy".

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• I once dated a guy who was like, 'Holy sh--, I just made out with Harriet the Spy!' And that's messed up. Don't say that. I was 10, you're 30, it's just weird.

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Guy, Holy, Made

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• I play Dr. Karen Boyer in 'Spies Like Us.' She's strong, intelligent and dedicated and just happens to be beautiful.

  Donna Dixon

  Beautiful, Strong, Intelligent

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• I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

  Pia Zadora

  Movie, Information, Violence

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• He always wants to expand every one's rights: illegal aliens, terrorists, Russian spies, except American citizens.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Rights, Citizens, Want

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• I invented the historical spy novel.

  Alan Furst

  Historical, Novel

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