Espionage Quotes
He tried to recall the look of her eyes the day they first met. He closed his eyes and concentrated, but as he envisioned Kalila's car passing by, he couldn't decide if it was a memory or a dream.
The professor stared straight ahead. He felt Husam's eyes upon him. He clenched his hands together tightly, lest their shaking reveal everything.
Society tends to stick labels on everything and everyone. The label that is given to you will stick with you for a lifetime.
Li, a willowy manboy with a shock of black hair atop a mouthful of bad teeth was the brother-in-law he had introduced to industrial espionage several years back. Rong often regretted that.
I think Peter was murdered because of what he found out about the company.
The common theme here was contempt: a poisonous disregard for human life. For Vladimir Putin’s critics have an uncanny habit of turning up dead.
So he was handsome. That fact did nothing to soften her feelings toward the walking interference she studied across the room.
Next time -- we will roll out the red carpet for you in the United States of Arabia, my brethren!
Gentlemen. You are looking at the true Abraham Lincoln of Arabia. And in order to end our internal bickering - our civil war, if you will - I have solicited your aid.
Limp finally spoke. “Do you think you could kill a person and not get all crazy about it?
Most of everything is very little of not very much at all.
It came as naturally to him as breathing or lying, or worse. His mama had only taught her son to be cautious at all times. Garnette was more than that. Much, much more than that.
There were moments when Szara suspected that many idealists drawn to Communism were, at heart, people with an appetite for clandestine life.
Some men will never be heroes, some heroes will never be men, he thought, with urgent acknowledgements to Joseph Conrad.
The two smallest boys were cut down first, bodies bounding in different directions as they were shot from opposite sides of the field, like pinballs caught in a tight corner.
Espionage is the world's second oldest profession.
Being shaken to death by a Hawaiian tourist look-alike was not how Arena imagined her death.
Being a spy was something like standing on the south shore fending off a hurricane with a $2 poncho and an umbrella.
If there's no sea-gull there's no meeting, Wicklow had said. No sea-gull means abort. That's my epitaph, thought Barley. 'There was no sea-gull, so he aborted.
To take command, one must first create the illusion that command is already yours.
Grandpa said that we could solve a lot of the world’s problems if we considered cats and dogs edible. Like the neighbor’s dog who goes to the bathroom in his flower garden. And know what else?
