Espionage Fiction Quotes

#1. I've got to think of a hundred and sixty million Americans, not of the three or four that happen to be the ones I love. And it wouldn't be a big thing - security is built on lots of little thing. I don't like to talk about it. (Calhoun Hightower in Danger for Breakfast)

John McPartland

#2. The combination of power, optimism and abstract thinking makes powerful people more certain. The more cut-off they are from others, the more confident they are that they are right.

Margaret Heffernan

#3. I am healthy and happy.

Candice Swanepoel

#4. If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.

Gore Vidal

#5. Limp finally spoke. Do you think you could kill a person and not get all crazy about it?

Cole Alpaugh

#6. Never patronize your readers. That means don't talk down to them.

Tom Greer

#7. No one cares for reality, everyone stakes his essence on illusion. Slaves and dupes of their self-love, men live not in order to live but to make other believe they have lived!

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#8. Maybe I'd hoped for something magical or historic, but all I see is greed.

Lauren DeStefano

#9. Next time
we will roll out the red carpet for you in the United States of Arabia, my brethren!

Leonard Leventon

#10. It is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she can't.

Carol K. Carr

#11. There's really no "bad" people; there's just humans who are doing the best they can to figure life out. It's hard! We can all relate to that.

Sara Bareilles

#12. Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired.

James Morcan

#13. As Plato: We become more worthy the more we bend our minds to the impersonal. We become better as we take in the universe, thinking more about the largeness that it is and laugh about the smallness that is us.

Rebecca Goldstein

#14. 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.

Leonard Leventon

#15. 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?

Cole Alpaugh

#16. For me, I want to tell stories that will affect my children in a positive way, that they can be proud of me for working on and doing. I want to be alight in the world. There's enough darkness.

Michael Landon Jr.

#17. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger - according to the way you react to it. And we have reacted the wrong way.

C.S. Lewis

#18. There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma.

Walter E. Williams

#20. Plastic flowers last for hours

Bill Fairclough

#21. Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.

Bjork

#22. There is a little bit of everybody in everybody.

Leonard Leventon

#23. University is a wonderful opportunity to find out not just much more about the world, but much more about yourself, too.

Robert F. Goheen