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  • The terrible state of public education has paid huge dividends in ignorance. Huge. We now have a country that can be told blatant lies - easily checkable, blatant lies - and I'm not talking about the covert workings of the CIA. When we have a terrorist attack, on September 11, 2001 with 19 men - 15 of them are Saudis - and five minutes later the whole country thinks they're from Iraq - how can you have faith in the public? This is an easily checkable fact. The whole country is like the O.J. Simpson jurors.

    "Ruminator" Magazine, August/September 2005.
  • The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.

    Branches   Action   Tough  
    Christopher Hitchens (2014). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.46, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Quietly, Macey went through her options. Even though the masked men were asking for cell phones, the gunmen were making so much noise that she was sure someone had already called 911. The obvious exits were blocked, and the elevators had no doubt been disabled. The men moved with confidence and order, but they weren’t trying to be quiet. There was nothing covert at all about this operation. Unlike the boy beside her.

    Boys   Men   Phones  
  • My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.

  • We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.

    Envy   Trying   Diaries  
    Twitter post from Dec 29, 2012
  • The liberals' present furor over the CIA's covert operations against al-Qaida suggests that they harbor a death wish not only for themselves but also for the whole country.

    Country   Wish   Als  
  • Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES.

  • My dream is to do something like the female Bourne, and do something in that world. To mix that high level of drama with the covert operation, conspiracy theory spy world fascinates me and it's so interesting. It's fun to do it.

    Dream   Fun   Drama  
    "Ali Larter Interview RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 3, 2010.
  • In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

  • To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United States is constantly denouncing the Soviet Union in the United Nations and elsewhere. This point will not be lost on the rest of the world, nor on our own consciences.

    War   Pigs   Giving  
  • We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can; but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.

    Care   Noise   Affection  
    Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.574
  • Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

    "Return to Kurdistan" by Jason Burke, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2002.
  • The body, I have often thought, is like a promise. You keep things in it. Those things are covert, immediate, yours. There is something lustrous about them. They emit energy, like radium or appliances. They can be replaced, repaired or simply discarded. The promise of the body is very firm and intact. It's the only promise we can count on, and we can't really count on it very much.

    Promise   Energy   Body  
    Scott Bradfield (1989). “The History of Luminous Motion”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
  • The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions, and thus the cry in the poem may come to sound louder, more urgent, more real than the cry in the street outside. The death in the novel may move us more potently than the death in the next room. Thus there may be a covert, betraying link between the cultivation of aesthetic response and the potential of personal inhumanity.

    Real   Moving   Risk  
    George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.31, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public. In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • Watching my father plan and strategize for the resistance has taught me about trust.” She leaned forward. “Personal trust is very different from political trust, my lady. The first thrives on faith. The second requires proof, whether it be upfront or covert.” Awkwardly, she patted my hand. “His Majesty has always been a powerful man. Perhaps he has never had to distinguish between the two.

    Powerful   Father   Men  
    Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.143, Penguin
  • The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.

    Order   Community   India  
    "Arundhati Roy On the Indian Elections, Her Support for the Iraqi Resistance & the Privatization of War". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.commondreams.org. May 20, 2004.
  • Magick comes in many forms, and there are many covert master magicians who are so covert that they don't even know they are magicians.

    Form   Masters   Magician  
    Christopher Penczak (2009). “The Witch's Coin: Prosperity and Money Magick”, p.29, Llewellyn Worldwide
  • Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.

  • Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success.

    War   Secret   Battle  
    Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001
  • Technology at present is covert philosophy; the point is to make it overtly philosophical.

  • Every responsible chief in the CIA knows that the more covert the action, the greater the need for a clear policy and a defined target.

    Needs   Target   Action  
    Tyler Drumheller (2006). “On the Brink: An Insider's Account of how the White House Compromised American Intelligence”, Public Affairs
  • For my part, I love to stand foot to foot with an honest foeman. To open warfare, bold and true hearts raise no objection but the ground of quarrel; it is covert enmity which we have most cause to fear, and best reason to loathe. That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

    Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1871). “Sermons of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of London”, p.17
  • The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.

  • Herman Cain is probably well liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican Party. Conservative movement and tea party movement... People like Karl Rove liked to keep the racism very covert. And so Herman Cain provides this great opportunity say you can say ‘Look, this is not a racist, anti-immigrant, anti-female, anti-gay movement. Look we have a black man!'” Garofalo hypothesized. “Look he’s polling well and won a straw poll!

    Stupid   Party   Gay  
    "Janeane Garofalo To Keith Olbermann: ‘Herman Cain Hides The Racist Elements Of The Republican Party’" by James Crugnale, www.mediaite.com. September 29, 2011.
  • Gone were but the Winter, Come were but the Spring, I would go to a covert Where the birds sing; Where in the whitethorn Singeth a thrush, And a robin sings In the holly-bush. Full of fresh scents Are the budding boughs Arching high over A cool green house: Full of sweet scents, And whispering air Which sayeth softly: We spread no snare; Here dwell in safety, Here dwell alone, With a clear stream And a mossy stone. Here the sun shineth Most shadily; Here is heard an echo Of the far sea, Though far off it be.

    Sweet   Spring   Winter  
    Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.11, OUP Oxford
  • Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.

    FaceBook post by Tahir Shah from Apr 18, 2013
  • The chairs [in Congress] are part of the "Gang of Eight." They get briefed on every covert-action program and everything like that. They know where all the bodies are buried. At the same time, they get far more campaign donations than anybody else from defense contractors, from intelligence corporations, from private military companies.

  • Cordings make the best Covert coats, corduroys, moleskins and all the accoutrements. When I need a covert coat I get it from Cordings rather than make one myself and I'm a tailor so I should know! Cordings is without doubt, the best at what they do; they produce a quality which surpasses any other company of its kind in Britain.

    Doubt   Quality   Needs  
  • The media will spend weeks going through pay stubs for Bush's National Guard service in Alabama in the waning days of war, but if Kerry tells them exotic tales of covert missions into Cambodia directed by Richard Nixon, they don't even bother to fact-check who was president in December 1968.

    War   Media   President  
    "Ballad Of The French Berets". www.anncoulter.com. August 18, 2004.
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