Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Eisler

I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.

Barry Eisler

When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

Paul Sarbanes

unparalleled experience as a judge and prosecutor, and as director of the FBI and of the CIA makes him a superb choice.

Hans Blix

The document had been sitting with the CIA and their U.K. counterparts for a long while, and they had not discovered it, ... And I think it took the IAEA a day to discover that it was a forgery.

Michael Hayden

My literal responsibility as director of the CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval; to inform.

Ingrid Seward

Neither the CIA nor French intelligence seems to be cooperating.

Karl Rove

remains a focus of the CIA leak probe. He has told friends it is possible he still will be indicted for providing false statements to the grand jury.

George Tenet

When I took on this job I had a set of conditions to do it because I was essentially taking on the moral hazard, as I've referred to it, for the CIA. That is, it was a CIA conclusion that there were weapons.

Hillary Clinton

My biggest, you know, regret is what happened in Benghazi. It was a terrible tragedy losing four Americans - two diplomats and, now it's public so I can say, two CIA operatives.

William John Wills

I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.

Brigitte Boisselier

'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.

David Ginola

The Centre is very important to me; it's about trust - about truth.

Ninon de

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

Ninon de

A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.

Brigitte Bardot

It's better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Ernest Renan

God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.

Charles Perrault

Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels.

Paul Ricoeur

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

Bat for Lashes

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

Dick Cheney

We haven't really had the time yet to pore through all those records in Baghdad. We'll find ample evidence confirming the link, that is the connection if you will between al Qaida and the Iraqi intelligence services. They have worked together on a number of occasions.

Vidal Sassoon

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

Generoso Senga

There is a threat...This is the object of our intelligence (verification).

Raymond Kelly

You have multiple intelligence agencies. They all ultimately report to the director of national intelligence but, you know, it never comes in neat packages. So you have to make judgments on what you have, and it's not easy to do.

Brad Smith

We are putting our most valuable intellectual property on the table.

William Shakespeare

That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

Charles Simmons

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

William Shakespeare

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

Brad Smith

We are putting our most valuable intellectual property on the table.

William Dembski

without speculating about the nature of the intelligence.

Daniel Ortega

His intelligence. He?s skillful and he?s very, very intelligent. He always just makes that right play.

Jim DeRogatis

Some say that's a weakness. I say it's a strength, a sign of intelligence.

Scott Becker

It's a totally intellectual response to something so physical.

Stephen Hadley

an issue of our intelligence, and obviously we need to do a better job of our intelligence.

Kazi Shams

To be strong is to have passion, and to have passion is to believe.

Irene Peter

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Emma Watson

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

Vitruvius

Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.

Livy

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

Sebastian Horsley

The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic.

Richard Jaffe

may want to pursue the possibilities that a different person did them both, and neither was our client.

Gerald Schatten

Neither (the) results, nor we, support pet cloning.

Quentin Kidd

Right now, neither of the two sides seems to be willing to give in.

Ernie Kovacs

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

Mortimer Adler

Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.

Edmund Spenser

I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason

Damien Rice

I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.

Vladimir Putin

Back in the mid-18th century, in 1745-1747, Ossetia was the first to become part of the Russian Empire. At that time, it was a united entity; North and South Ossetia were one state.

Tom Verica

Most shows are normally 40 or 50 pages.

Sarah Hall

I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina.

Vonda Shepard

My stint with 'Ally McBeal' is something I never planned nor expected.

Nicole Appleton

I'm in the public eye. I know I'm not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street.

Howard Schnellenberger

What you want to do is run the carpetbaggers up north empty-handed.

Karrie Webb

On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

Miranda Hart

As a woman, it seems you can't just be a comedian; you're always classed as something else, too, whether that's 'beautiful,' 'pint-sized,' 'larger-than-life' or in my case, 'Hattie Jacques-esque,' 'the giraffe,' 'big.'

Oscar Sanchez

Webb seems to be up to its usual games.

Gail Carriger

It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.

Miranda Lambert

We had like a jolt of women in country, and it seems like we're just kind of there now.

Carolina Herrera

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

Laurie Lee

With three kids, it seems like I'm always shelling out $5 here and $5 there,

John Sacchi

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.

Jim Rash

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.